Daniel 5
1 Baltasar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age.
2 And being now drunk he commanded that they should bring the vessels of gold and silver which Nabuchodonosor his father had brought away out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem, that the king and his nobles, and his wives and his concubines, might drink in them.
酒の進むにいたりてベルシヤザルはその父ネブカデネザルがヱルサレムの宮より取きたりし金銀の器を携へいたれと命ぜり是王とその大臣および王の妻妾等みな之をもて酒を飮んとてなりき
3 Then were the golden and silver vessels brought, which he had brought away out of the temple that was in Jerusalem: and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, drank in them.
是をもてそのヱルサレムなる神の官の内院より取たりし金の器を携へいたりければ王とその大臣および王の妻妾等これをもて飮めり
4 They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone.
すなはち彼らは酒をのみて金銀銅鉄木石などの神を讃たたへたりしが
5 In the same hour there appeared fingers, as it were of the hand of a man, writing over against the candlestick upon the surface of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king beheld the joints of the hand that wrote.
その時に人の手の指あらはれて燭台と相對する王の宮の粉壁に物書り王その物書る手の末を見たり
6 Then was the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.
是において王の愉快なる顔色は變りその心は思ひなやみて安からず腿の関節はゆるみ膝はあひ撃り
7 And the king cried out aloud to bring in the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babylon: Whosoever shall read this writing, and shall make known to me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and shall have a golden chain on his neck, and shall be the third man in my kingdom.
王すなはち大聲に呼はりて法術士カルデヤ人卜筮師等を召きたらしめ而して王バビロンの智者等に告て言ふこの文字を読みその解明を我に示す者には紫の衣を衣せ頚に金の鏈をかけさせて之を國の第三の牧伯となさんと
8 Then came in all the king’s wise men, but they could neither read the writing, nor declare the interpretation to the king.
王の智者等は皆きたりしかどもその文字を読こと能はずまたその解明を王にしめすこと能はざりければ
9 Wherewith king Baltasar was much troubled, and his countenance was changed: and his nobles also were troubled.
ベルシヤザル王おほいに思ひなやみてその顔色を失へりその大臣等もまた驚き懼れたり
10 Then the queen, on occasion of what had happened to the king, and his nobles, came into the banquet house: and she spoke and said: O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, neither let thy countenance be changed.
時に大后王と大臣等の言を聞てその酒宴の室にいりきたり大后すなはち陳て言ふ願くは王長壽かれ汝心に思ひなやむ勿れまた顔色を失ふにおよばず
11 There is a man in thy kingdom that hath the spirit of the holy gods in him: and in the days of thy father knowledge and wisdom were found in him: for king Nabuchodonosor thy father appointed him prince of the wise men, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers, thy father, I say, O king:
汝の國に聖神の霊のやどれる一箇の人あり汝の父の代に彼聡明了知および神の智慧のごとき智慧あることを顕せり汝の父ネブカデネザル王すなはち汝の父の王彼を立てて博士法術士カルデヤ人卜筮師等の長となせり
12 Because a greater spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, and interpretation of dreams, and shewing of secrets, and resolving of difficult things, were found in him, that is, in Daniel: whom the king named Baltassar. Now therefore let Daniel be called for, and he will tell the interpretation.
彼はダニエルといへる者なるが王これにベルテシヤザルといふ名を與ヘたり彼は心の殊勝たる者にて了知あり知識ありて能く夢を解き隠語を解き難問を解くなり然ばダニエルを召されよ彼その解明をしめさんと
13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. And the king spoke, and said to him: Art thou Daniel of the children of the captivity of Juda, whom my father the king brought out of Judea?
是においてダニエル召れて王の前に至りければ王ダニエルに語りて言ふ汝は吾父の王がユダより曳きたりしユダの俘囚人なるそのダニエルなるか
14 I have heard of thee, that thou hast the spirit of the gods, and excellent knowledge, and understanding, and wisdom are found in thee.
我聞になんぢの裏には神の霊やどりをりて汝は聡明了知および非凡の智慧ありと云ふ
15 And now the wise men the magicians have come in before me, to read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof: and they could not declare to me the meaning of this writing.
我智者法術士等を吾前に召よせてこの文字を読しめその解明を我にしめさせんと爲たれども彼らはこの事の解明を我にしめすことを得ず
16 But I have heard of thee, that thou canst interpret obscure things, and resolve difficult things: now if thou art able to read the writing, and to shew me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and shalt have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third prince in my kingdom.
我聞に汝は能く物事の解明をなしかつ難問を解くと云ふ然ば汝もし能くこの文字を読みその解明を我に示さば汝に紫の衣を衣せ金の索を汝の頚にかけさせて汝をこの國の第三の牧伯となさんと
17 To which Daniel made answer, and said before the king: Thy rewards be to thyself, and the gifts of thy house give to another: but the writing I will read to thee, O king, and shew thee the interpretation thereof.
ダニエルこたへて王に言けるは汝の賜物は汝みづからこれを取り汝の饒物はこれを他の人に與へたまへ然ながら我は王のためにその文字を読みその解明をこれに知せたてまつらん
18 O king, the most high God gave to Nabuchodonosor thy father a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour.
王よ至高神汝の父ネブカデネザルに國と權勢と榮光と尊貴を賜へり
19 And for the greatness that he gave to him, all people, tribes, and languages trembled, and were afraid of him: whom he would, he slew: and whom he would, he destroyed: and whom he would, he set up: and whom he would, he brought down.
彼に權勢を賜ひしによりて諸民諸族諸音みな彼の前に慄き畏れたり彼はその欲する者を殺しその欲する者を活しその欲する者を上げその欲する者を下ししなり
20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto pride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory was taken away.
而して彼心に高ぶり氣を剛愎にして驕りしかばその國の位をすべりてその尊貴を失ひ
21 And he was driven out from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses, and he did eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till he knew that the most High ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he will set over it whomsoever it shall please him.
逐れて世の人と離れその心は獣のごとくに成りその住所は野馬の中にあり牛のごとくに草を食ひてその身は天よりの露に濡たり是のごとくにして終に彼は至高神の人間の國を治めてその意のままに人を立たまふといふことをしるにいたれり
22 Thou also his son, O Baltasar, hast not humbled thy heart, whereas thou knewest all these things:
ベルシヤザルよ汝は彼の子にして此事を盡く知るといへども猶その心を卑くせず
23 But hast lifted thyself up against the Lord of heaven: and the vessels of his house have been brought before thee: and thou, and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines have drunk wine in them: and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and of gold, and of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor feel: but the God who hath thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways, thou hast not glorified.
却って天の主にむかひて自ら高ぶりその家の器皿を汝の前に持きたらしめて汝と汝の大臣と汝の妻妾等それをもて酒を飮み而して汝は見ことも聞ことも知こともあらぬ金銀銅鉄木石の神を讃頌ふることを爲し汝の生命をその手に握り汝の一切の道を主どりたまふ神を崇むることをせず
24 Wherefore he hath sent the part of the hand which hath written this that is set down.
是をもて彼の前よりこの手の末いできたりてこの文字を書るなり
25 And this is the writing that is written: MANE, THECEL, PHARES.
その書る文字は是のごとしメネ、メネ、テケル、ウバルシン
26 And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.
その言の解明は是のごとしメネ(數へたり)は神汝の治世を數へてこれをその終に至らせしを謂なり
27 THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.
テケル(秤れり)は汝が權衡にて秤られて汝の重の足らざることの顕れたるを謂なり
28 PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.
ベレス(分たれたり)は汝の國の分たれてメデアとペルシヤに與ヘらるるを謂なり
29 Then by the king’s command Daniel was clothed with purple, and a chain of gold was put about his neck: and it was proclaimed of him that he had power as the third man in the kingdom.
是においてベルシヤザル命を降してダニエルに紫の衣を荊せしめ金の鏈をこれが頚にかけさせて彼は國の第三の牧伯なりと布告せり
30 The same night Baltasar the Chaldean king was slain.
カルデヤ人の王ベルシヤザルはその夜の中に殺され
31 And Darius the Mede succeeded to the kingdom, being threescore and two years old.
メデア人ダリヨスその國を得たり此時ダリヨスは六十二歳なりき
