Judges 7
1 Then Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, and all the people with him, got up early and put up their tents by the side of the water-spring of Harod; the tents of Midian were on the north side of him, under the hill of Moreh in the valley.
斯てヱルバアルと呼るるギデオンおよび之とともにあるすべての民朝夙に興きいでてハロデの井のほとりに陣を取るミデアン人の陣はかれらの北の方にあたりモレの山に沿ひ谷のうちにありき
2 And the Lord said to Gideon, So great is the number of your people, that if I give the Midianites into their hands they will be uplifted in pride over me and will say, I myself have been my saviour.
ヱホバ、ギデオンにいひたまひけるは汝とともに在る民は餘りに多ければ我その手にミデアン人を付さじおそらくはイスラエル我に向ひ自ら誇りていはん我わが手をもて己を救へりと
3 So now, let it be given out to the people that anyone who is shaking with fear is to go back from Mount Galud. So twenty-two thousand of the people went back, but there were still ten thousand.
されば民の耳に告示していふべし誰にても懼れ慄くものはギレアデ山より歸り去るべしとここにおいて民のかへりしもの二萬二千人あり殘しものは一萬人なりき
4 Then the Lord said to Gideon, There are still more people than is necessary; take them down to the water so that I may put them to the test for you there; then whoever I say is to go with you will go, and whoever I say is not to go will not go.
ヱホバまたギデオンにいひたまひけるは民なほ多し之を導きて水際に下れ我かしこにて汝のために彼らを試みんおほよそ我が汝に告て此人は汝とともに行くべしといはんものはすなはち汝とともに行くべしまたおほよそ我汝に告て此人は汝とともに行くべからずといはんものはすなはち行くべからざるなり
5 So he took the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, Put on one side by themselves all those drinking up the water with their tongues like a dog; and in the same way, all those who go down on their knees to the water while drinking.
ギデオン民をみちびきて水際に下りしにヱホバ之にいひたまひけるはおほよそ犬の餂るがごとくその舌をもて水を餂るものは汝之を別けおくべしまたおほよそ其の膝を折り屈みて水を飮むものをも然すべしと
6 Now the number of those who took up the water with their tongues was three hundred; all the rest of the people went down on their knees to the water.
手を口にあてて水を餂しものの數は三百人なり餘の民は盡くその膝を折り屈みて水を飮り
7 And the Lord said to Gideon, By those three hundred who were drinking with their tongues I will give you salvation and give the Midianites into your hands; let the rest of the people go away, every man to his place.
ヱホバ、ギデオンにいひたまひけるは我水を餂たる三百人の者をもて汝らを救ひミデアン人を汝の手に付さん餘の民はおのおの其所に歸るべしと
8 So they took the vessels of the people, and their horns from their hands, and he sent them away, every man to his tent, keeping only the three hundred; and the tents of Midian were lower down in the valley.
ここにおいて彼ら民の兵粮とその箛を手にうけとれりギデオンすなはちすべてのイスラエル人を各自その天幕に歸らせ彼の三百人を留めおけり時にミデアン人の陣はその下の谷のなかにありき
9 The same night the Lord said to him, Up! go down now against their army, for I have given them into your hands.
その夜ヱホバ、ギデオンにいひたまはく起よ下りて敵陣に入るべし我之を汝の手に付すなり
10 But if you have fear of going down, take your servant Purah with you and go down to the tents;
されど汝もし下ることを怖れなば汝の僕フラを伴ひ陣所に下りて
11 And after hearing what they are saying, you will get strength to go down against the army. So he went down with his servant Purah to the outer line of the tents of the armed men.
彼らのいふ所を聞べし然せば汝の手強くなりて汝敵陣にくだることを得んとギデオンすなはち僕フラとともに下りて陣中にある隊伍のほとりに至るに
12 Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.
ミデアン人アマレク人およびすべて東方の民は蝗蟲のごとくに數衆く谷のうちに堰しをりその駱駝は濱の砂の多きがごとくにして數ふるに勝ず
13 When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth.
ギデオン其處に至りしに或人その伴侶に夢を語りて居りすなはちいふ我夢を見たりしが夢に大麥のパンひとつミデアンの陣中に轉びいりて天幕に至り之をうち仆し覆したれば天幕倒れ臥り
14 And his friend in answer said, This is certainly the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, the men of Israel: into their hands God has given up all the army of Midian.
其の伴侶答へていふ是イスラエルの人ヨアシの子ギデオンの劍に外ならず神ミデアンとすべての陣營を之が手に付したまふなりと
15 Then Gideon, hearing the story of the dream and the sense in which they took it, gave worship; then he went back to the tents of Israel, and said, Up! for the Lord has given the army of Midian into your hands.
ギデオン夢の説話とその解釋を聞しかば拜をなしてイスラエルの陣所にかへりいひけるは起よヱホバ汝らの手にミデアンの陣をわたしたまふと
16 Then separating the three hundred men into three bands, he gave every man a horn, and a vessel in which was a flaming branch.
かくて三百人を三隊にわかち手に手に箛および空瓶を取せその瓶のなかに燈火をおかしめ
17 And he said to them, Keep your eyes on me, and do what I do; when I come to the outer line of tents, whatever I do, you are to do the same.
これにいひけるは我を視てわが爲すところにならへ我が敵陣の邊に至らんときに爲すごとく汝らも爲すべし
18 At the sound of my horn, and the horns of those who are with me, let your horns be sounded all round the tents, and say, For the Lord and for Gideon.
我およびわれとともに在るものすべて箛を吹ば汝らもまたすべて陣營の四方にて箛を吹き此ヱホバのためなりギデオンのためなりといへと
19 So Gideon and the three hundred men who were with him came to the outer line of tents, at the start of the middle watch, when the watchmen had only then taken their stations; and the horns were sounded and the vessels broken.
而してギデオンおよび之とともなる百人中更の初に陣營の邊に至るにをりしも番兵を更代たるときなりければ箛を吹き手に携へたる瓶をうちくだけり
20 So the three bands all gave a loud note on their horns, and when the vessels had been broken, they took the flaming branches in their left hands, and the horns in their right hands ready for blowing, crying out, For the Lord and for Gideon.
即ち三隊の兵隊箛を吹き瓶をうちくだき左の手には燈火を執り右の手には箛をもちて之を吹きヱホバの劍ギデオンの劍なるぞと叫べり
21 Then they made a line round the tents, every man in his place; and all the army, awaking from sleep, came running out, and with loud cries went in flight.
かくておのおのその持場に立ち陣營を取り圍みたれば敵軍みな走り叫びてにげゆけり
22 And the three hundred gave a loud note on their horns, and every man's sword was turned by the Lord against his brother all through the army; and the army went in flight as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zeredah, to the edge of Abel-meholah by Tabbath.
三百人のもの箛を吹くにあたりヱホバ敵軍をしてみなたがひに同士撃せしめたまひければ敵軍にげはしりてゼレラのベテシツダ、アベルメホラの境およびタバテに至る
23 And the men of Israel came together from Naphtali and from Asher and all Manasseh, and went after Midian.
イスラエルの人々すなはちナフタリ、アセルおよびマナセ中より集ひ來りてミデアン人を追撃り
24 Then Gideon sent through all the hill-country of Ephraim saying, Come down against Midian, and keep the ways across Jordan before they come. So all the men of Ephraim, massing themselves together, kept the ways across Jordan.
ギデオン使者をあまねくエフライムの山に遣していはせけるは下りてミデアン人を攻めベタバラにいたる渡口およびヨルダンを遮斷るべしと是においてエフライムの人盡く集ひ來りてベタバラにいたる渡口およびヨルダンを取り
25 And they took the two chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they put Oreb to death at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they put to death at the place of the grape-crushing in Zeeb, and they went after Midian; but the heads of Oreb and Zeeb they took across Jordan to Gideon.
ミデアン人の君主オレブとゼエブの二人を俘へてオレブをばオレブ砦の上に殺しゼエブをばゼエブの酒搾のほとりに殺しまたミデアン人を追撃ちオレブとゼエブの首を携へてヨルダンの彼方よりギデオンの許にいたる
