Jeremiah 48
1 Of Moab. The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Sorrow on Nebo, for it has been made waste; Kiriathaim has been put to shame and is taken: the strong place is put to shame and broken down.
モアブの事について、万軍の主、イスラエルの神はこう言われる、「ああ、ネボはわざわいだ、これは滅ぼされた。キリヤタイムははずかしめられて取られ、とりでは、はずかしめられてこわされた。
2 The praise of Moab has come to an end; as for Heshbon, evil has been designed against her; come, let us put an end to her as a nation. But your mouth will be shut, O Madmen; the sword will go after you.
モアブの誉は、消え去った。ヘシボンで人々はモアブの害を図り、『さあ、この国を断ち滅ぼそう』という。マデメンよ、おまえもまた滅ぼされる、つるぎがおまえを追う。
3 There is the sound of crying from Horonaim, wasting and great destruction;
ホロナイムから叫び声が聞える、『荒廃と大いなる滅亡だ』という。
4 Moab is broken; her cry has gone out to Zoar.
モアブは滅ぼされ、叫びはゾアルにまで聞える。
5 For by the slope of Luhith they will go up, weeping all the way; for on the way down to Horonaim the cry of destruction has come to their ears.
彼らは泣きながらルヒテの坂を登る。彼らはホロナイムの下り坂で、『滅亡』の叫びを聞いたからだ。
6 Go in flight, get away with your lives, and let your faces be turned to Aroer in the Arabah.
逃げて、自分の身を救え、荒野の野ろばのようになれ。
7 For because you have put your faith in your strong places, you, even you, will be taken: and Chemosh will go out as a prisoner, his priests and his rulers together.
おまえが、とりでと財宝とを頼みにしたので、おまえも捕えられるからだ。またケモシは、その祭司とつかさたちと共に、捕えられて行く。
8 And the attacker will come against every town, not one will be safe; and the valley will be made waste, and destruction will come to the lowland, as the Lord has said.
滅ぼす者はすべての町に来る、一つの町ものがれることができない。谷は滅び、平地は荒される、主の言われたとおりである。
9 Put up a pillar for Moab, for she will come to a complete end: and her towns will become a waste, without anyone living in them.
モアブに翼を与えて、飛び去らせよ。その町々は荒れて、住む者はなくなる。
10 Let him be cursed who does the Lord's work half-heartedly; let him be cursed who keeps back his sword from blood.
主のわざを行うことを怠る者はのろわれる。またそのつるぎを押えて血を流さない者はのろわれる。
11 From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged.
モアブはその幼い時から安らかで、酒が、沈んだおりの上にとどまって、器から器に、くみ移されなかったように、捕え移されなかったので、その味はなお存し、その香気も変ることがない。
12 So truly, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send to him men who will have him turned over till there is no more wine in his vessels, and his wine-skins will be completely broken.
主は言われる、それゆえ見よ、わたしがこれを傾ける者どもをつかわす日が来る。彼らはこれを傾け、その器をあけ、そのかめを砕く。
13 And Moab will be shamed on account of Chemosh, as the children of Israel were shamed on account of Beth-el their hope.
その時モアブはケモシのために恥をかく。ちょうどイスラエルの家がその頼みとしたベテルのために恥をかいたようになる。
14 How say you, We are men of war and strong fighters?
あなたがたはどうして『われわれは勇士だ。強い戦士だ』というのか。
15 He who makes Moab waste has gone up against her; and the best of her young men have gone down to their death, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies.
モアブとその町々を滅ぼす者は上って来、モアブのえり抜きの若者たちは下って殺されたと万軍の主と名のる王が言われる。
16 The fate of Moab is near, and trouble is coming on him very quickly.
モアブの災難は近づいている、その苦難はすみやかに来る。
17 All you who are round about him, give signs of grief for him, and all you who have knowledge of his name, say, How is the strong rod broken, even the beautiful branch!
すべてその周囲にある者よ、またその名を知る者よ、彼のために嘆いて、『ああ、強き笏、麗しきつえは、ついに折れた』と言え。
18 Come down from your glory, O people of Dibon, and take your seat in the place of the waste; for the attacker of Moab has gone up against you, sending destruction on your strong places.
デボンに住む者よ、あなたの栄えを離れて下り、かわいた地に座せよ。モアブを滅ぼす者があなたに攻めのぼって来て、あなたの城を滅ぼしたからだ。
19 O daughter of Aroer, take your station by the way, on the watch: questioning him who is in flight, and her who has got away safe, say, What has been done?
アロエルに住む者よ、道のかたわらに立って見張りし、逃げてくる男、のがれてくる女に尋ねて、『何が起ったのか』と言え。
20 Moab has been put to shame, she is broken: make loud sounds of grief, crying out for help; give the news in Arnon, that Moab has been made waste.
モアブは敗れて、恥をこうむっている。嘆き呼ばわれ。アルノン川のほとりで、モアブは滅ぼされたと告げよ。
21 And punishment has come on the lowlands; on Holon and Jahzah, and on Mephaath,
さばきは高原の地に臨み、ホロン、ヤハズ、メパアテ、
22 And on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth-diblathaim,
デボン、ネボ、ベテ・デブラタイム、
23 And on Kiriathaim, and on Beth-gamul, and on Beth-meon,
キリヤタイム、ベテ・ガムル、ベテ・メオン、
24 And on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the towns of the land of Moab, far and near.
ケリオテ、ボズラなどモアブの地のすべての町の、遠いものにも近いものにも、臨んだ。
25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the Lord.
モアブの角は砕け、その腕は折れたと主は言われる。
26 Make him full of wine, for his heart has been lifted up against the Lord: and Moab will be rolling in the food he was not able to keep down, and everyone will be making sport of him.
モアブを酔わせよ、彼が主に敵して自ら高ぶったからである。モアブは自分の吐いた物の中にころがって、笑い草となる。
27 For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.
イスラエルはあなたの笑い草ではなかったか。あなたが、彼のことを語るごとに首を振ったのは、彼が盗賊の中にいたとでもいうのか。
28 O people of Moab, go away from the towns and take cover in the rock; be like the dove of the Arabah, which makes her living-place in holes.
モアブに住む者よ、町を去って岩の間に住め。谷の入口のかたわらに巣を作る山ばとのようにせよ。
29 We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride; and his great opinion of himself, and that his heart is lifted up.
われわれはモアブの高慢な事を聞いた、その高慢は、はなはだしい。すなわち、その尊大、高慢、横柄、およびその心の高ぶりのことを聞いた。
30 I have knowledge of his wrath, says the Lord, that it is nothing; his high-sounding words have done nothing.
主は言われる、わたしは彼の横着なのを知る、彼の自慢は偽りで、その行いも偽りである。
31 For this cause I will give cries of grief for Moab, crying out for Moab, even for all of it; I will be sorrowing for the men of Kir-heres.
それゆえ、わたしはモアブのために嘆き、モアブの全地のために呼ばわる。キルヘレスの人々のためにわたしは悲しむ。
32 My weeping for you, O vine of Sibmah, will be more than the weeping of Jazer: your branches have gone over the sea, stretching even to Jazer: destruction has come down on your summer fruits and your cut grapes.
シブマのぶどうの木よ、わたしはヤゼルのために泣くのにまさっておまえのために泣く。おまえのつるは延びて海を越え、ヤゼルに及んだ。おまえの夏の実と、その収穫を滅ぼす者が襲ってきた。
33 All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.
喜びと楽しみは、実り多いモアブの地を去った。わたしは、ぶどうをしぼる所にも酒をなくした。楽しく呼ばわって、ぶどうを踏む者もなくなった。呼ばわっても、喜んで呼ばわる声ではない。
34 The cry of Heshbon comes even to Elealeh; to Jahaz their voice is sounding; from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim will become dry.
ヘシボンとエレアレは叫ぶ。ヤハヅに至るまで、ゾアルからホロナイムとエグラテ・シリシヤに至るまで、彼らはその声をあげる。ニムリムの水も絶えたからである。
35 And I will put an end in Moab, says the Lord, to him who is making offerings in the high place and burning perfumes to his gods.
主は言われる、わたしは犠牲を高き所にささげ、香をその神にたく者をモアブのうちに滅ぼす。
36 So my heart is sounding for Moab like the sound of pipes, and my heart is sounding like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: for the wealth he has got for himself has come to an end.
それゆえ、わたしの心はモアブのために笛のように嘆き、わたしの心はキルヘレスの人々のために笛のように嘆く。彼らの獲た富が消えうせたからである。
37 For everywhere the hair of the head and the hair of the face is cut off: on every hand there are wounds, and haircloth on every body.
人はみな髪をそり、皆ひげをそり、みな手に傷をつけ、腰に荒布を着ける。
38 On all the house-tops of Moab and in its streets there is weeping everywhere; for Moab has been broken like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, says the Lord.
モアブではどこの屋根の上も、広場も、ただ悲しみに包まれている。これは、わたしが、だれもほしがらない器のようにモアブを砕いたからであると主は言われる。
39 How is it broken down! how is Moab's back turned in shame! so Moab will be a cause of sport and of fear to everyone round about him.
ああ、モアブはついに滅びた。人々は嘆く。ああ、モアブは恥じて顔をそむけた。モアブはその周囲のすべての者の笑い草となり恐れとなった」。
40 For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.
主はこう言われる、「見よ、敵はわしのように速く飛んできて、モアブに向かって翼をのべる。
41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong places have been forced, and the hearts of Moab's men of war in that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.
町々は取られ、城は奪われる。その日モアブの勇士の心は子を産む女の心のようになる。
42 And Moab will come to an end as a people, because he has been lifting himself up against the Lord.
モアブは滅ぼされて、国を成さないようになる。主に敵して自ら誇ったからである。
43 Fear and death and the net have come on you, O people of Moab, says the Lord.
主は言われる、モアブに住む者よ、恐れと、穴と、わなとがあなたに臨んでいる。
44 He who goes in flight from the fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for I will make this come on Moab, even the year of their punishment, says the Lord.
恐れをさけて逃げる者は穴におちいり、穴をよじ上って出る者は、わなに捕えられる。わたしがモアブに、その罰せられる年に、これらのものを臨ませるからであると主は言われる。
45 Those who went in flight from the fear are waiting under the shade of Heshbon: for a fire has gone out from Heshbon and a flame from the house of Sihon, burning up the pride of Moab and the crown of the head of the violent ones.
逃げた者はヘシボンの陰に、力なく立ちどまる。ヘシボンから火が出、シホンの家から炎が出て、モアブの額、騒ぐ人々の頭の頂を焼いたからだ。
46 Sorrow is yours, O Moab! the people of Chemosh are overcome: for your sons have been taken away as prisoners, and your daughters made servants.
モアブよ、おまえはわざわいだ。ケモシの民は滅びた。おまえのむすこらは捕え移され、おまえの娘らも捕え行かれたからである。
47 But still, I will let the fate of Moab be changed in the last days, says the Lord.
しかし末の日にわたしは再びモアブを栄えさせると主は言われる」。ここまではモアブのさばきの事をいったのである。
