Ezekiel 22
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
また主の言葉がわたしに臨んで言った、
2 “And you, son of man, should you not judge, should you not judge the city of blood?
「人の子よ、あなたはさばくのか。血を流すこの町をさばくのか。それならこの町にそのもろもろの憎むべき事を示して、
3 And you shall reveal to her all her abominations. And you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: This is the city which sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and which has made idols against herself, so that she may be defiled.
言え。主なる神はこう言われる、自分のうちに血を流して、その刑罰の時をまねき、偶像を造ってその身を汚す町よ、
4 You have offended by your blood, which you shed from yourself. And you have been defiled by your idols which you yourself made. And you have caused your days to approach, and you have brought on the time of your years. Because of this, I have made you a disgrace to the Gentiles, and a derision to all the lands.
あなたはその流した血によって罪を得、その造った偶像によって汚れ、あなたの日を近づかせ、あなたの年の定めの時はきた。それゆえわたしはあなたをもろもろの国民のあざけりとなし、万国の物笑いとする。
5 Those that are near and those that are far from you will triumph over you. You are filthy, infamous, great in destruction.
あなたに近い者も、遠い者も、汚れと、混乱に満ちているあなたをあざける。
6 Behold, the leaders of Israel have each used his arm to shed blood within you.
見よ、あなたのうちのイスラエルの君たちは、おのおのその力にしたがって、血を流そうとしている。
7 They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.
父母はあなたのうちで卑しめられ、寄留者はあなたのうちで虐待をうけ、みなしごと、やもめとはあなたのうちで悩まされている。
8 You have spurned my sanctuaries, and you have defiled my Sabbaths.
あなたはわたしの聖なるものを卑しめ、わたしの安息日を汚した。
9 Maligning men were within you, in order to shed blood, and they have eaten upon the mountains within you. They have worked wickedness in your midst.
人をののしって血を流そうとする者は、あなたのうちにおり、人々はあなたのうちで、山の上で食事をし、あなたのうちで、みだらなおこないをし、
10 They have uncovered the nakedness of their father within you. They have debased the uncleanness of the menstruous woman within you.
あなたのうちで、父の裸を現し、あなたのうちで、汚れのうちにある女を犯す。
11 And each one has committed abomination with the wife of his neighbor. And the father-in-law has heinously defiled his daughter-in-law. The brother has oppressed his sister, the daughter of his father, within you.
またあなたのうちに、その隣の妻と憎むべき事を行う者があり、淫行をもって、その嫁を汚す者があり、自分の父の娘である自分の姉妹を犯す者があり、
12 They have accepted bribes among you to shed blood. You have received usury and superabundance, and in avarice you have oppressed your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.
また血を流そうとして、あなたのうちで、まいないを取る者がある。あなたは利息と高利とを取り、しえたげによって、あなたの隣り人のものをかすめ、そしてわたしを忘れてしまったと、主なる神は言われる。
13 Behold, I have clapped my hands over your avarice, which you have worked, and over the blood that has been shed in your midst.
それゆえ見よ、あなたが得た不正の利の事、およびあなたのうちにある流血の事に対して、わたしは手を打ちならす。
14 How can your heart endure, or your hands prevail, in the days that I will bring upon you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will act.
わたしがあなたを攻める日には、あなたの勇気は、これに耐え得ようか。またあなたの手は強くあり得ようか。主なるわたしはこれを宣言し、これをなす。
15 And I will disperse you among the nations, and I will scatter you among the lands, and I will cause your uncleanness to fade away from you.
わたしはあなたを、もろもろの国民のうちに散らし、国々の間にまき、そしてあなたから汚れを除く。
16 And I will possess you in the sight of the Gentiles. And you shall know that I am the Lord.”
わたしはあなたによって、もろもろの国民の前に汚される。そしてあなたはわたしが主であることを知る」。
17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
主の言葉がまたわたしに臨んだ、
18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become like dross to me. All these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace; they have become like the dross of silver.
「人の子よ、イスラエルの家はわたしに対して、かなかすとなった。彼らはすべて炉の中の銀、青銅、すず、鉄、鉛のかなかすとなった。
19 Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Since you have all turned into dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you together in the midst of Jerusalem,
それゆえ、主なる神はこう言われる、あなたがたは皆かなかすとなったゆえ、見よ、わたしはあなたがたをエルサレムの中に集める。
20 just as they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace, so that I may kindle in it a fire to melt it. So will I gather you together in my fury and in my wrath, and I will be quieted, and I will melt you down.
人が銀、青銅、鉄、鉛、すずなどを炉の中に集め、これに火を吹きかけて溶かすように、わたしは怒りと憤りとをもって、あなたがたを集め入れて溶かす。
21 And I will gather you together, and I will burn you in the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in its midst.
すなわち、わたしはあなたがたを集め、わたしの怒りの火を、あなたがたに吹きかける。あなたがたはその中で溶ける。
22 Just as silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so will you be in its midst. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I will have poured out my indignation upon you.”
銀が炉の中で溶けるように、あなたがたもその中で溶ける。そしてあなたがたは主なるわたしが、あなたがたの上に、わたしの怒りを注いだことを知るようになる」。
23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
主の言葉がまたわたしに臨んだ、
24 “Son of man, say to her: You are a land unclean and not rained upon, in the day of fury.
「人の子よ、これに言え、あなたは怒りの日に清められず、また雨の降らない地である。
25 There is a conspiracy of prophets in her midst. Like a lion, roaring and seizing the prey, they have devoured souls. They have taken riches and a price. They have multiplied widows in her midst.
その中の君たちは、獲物を裂くほえるししのような者で、彼らは人々を滅ぼし、宝と尊い物とを取り、そのうちに、やもめの数をふやす。
26 Her priests have despised my law, and they have defiled my sanctuaries. They have held no distinction between holy and profane. And they have not understood the difference between defiled and clean. And they have averted their eyes from my Sabbaths. And I was profaned in their midst.
その祭司たちはわが律法を犯し、聖なる物を汚した。彼らは聖なる物と汚れた物とを区別せず、清くない物と清い物との違いを教えず、わが安息日を無視し、こうしてわたしは彼らの間に汚されている。
27 Her leaders in her midst are like wolves seizing the prey: to shed blood, and to perish souls, and to continually pursue profit with avarice.
その中にいる君たちは、獲物を裂くおおかみのようで、血を流し、不正の利を得るために人々を滅ぼす。
28 And her prophets have covered them without tempering the mortar, seeing emptiness, and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken.
その預言者たちは、水しっくいでこれを塗り、偽りの幻を見、彼らに偽りを占い、主が語らないのに『主なる神はこう言われる』と言う。
29 The people of the land have oppressed with slander and have seized with violence. They have afflicted the needy and the poor, and they have oppressed the new arrival by accusations without judgment.
国の民はしえたげを行い、奪うことをなし、乏しい者と貧しい者とをかすめ、不法に他国人をしえたぐ。
30 And I sought among them for a man who might set up a hedge, and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I might not destroy it; and I found no one.
わたしは、国のために石がきを築き、わたしの前にあって、破れ口に立ち、わたしにこれを滅ぼさせないようにする者を、彼らのうちに尋ねたが得られなかった。
31 And so I poured out my indignation upon them; in the fire of my wrath I consumed them. I have rendered their own way upon their head, says the Lord God.”
それゆえ、わたしはわが怒りを彼らの上に注ぎ、わが憤りの火をもって彼らを滅ぼし、彼らのおこないを、そのこうべに報いたと、主なる神は言われる」。
