Jeremiah 46
1 In the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, the Lord's message that came to Jeremiah the prophet about foreign nations.
茲にヱホバの言預言者ヱレミヤに臨みて諸國の事を論ふ
2 This concerns Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt and the Egyptian army which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
先エジプトの事すなはちユフラテ河の邊なるカルケミシの近傍にをるところのエジプト王パロネコの軍勢の事を論ふ是はユダの王ヨシヤの子ヱホヤキムの四年にバビロンの王ネブカデネザルが撃やぶりし者なり其言にいはく
3 Pick up both your small and large shields, and advance ready for battle!
汝ら大楯小干を備へて進み戰へ
4 Put the harnesses on the horses and get into your chariots; take your positions with your helmets on! Sharpen your spears; put on your armor!
馬を車に繋ぎ馬に乗り盔を被りて立て戈を磨き甲を着よ
5 Why do I see their lines broken and retreating? Their soldiers are defeated. They run away so quickly they don't even look back because they're so terrified by what's happening around them, declares the Lord.
われ見るに彼らは懼れて退きその勇士は打敗られ狼狽遁て後をかへりみず是何故ぞや畏懼かれらのまはりにありとヱホバいひたまふ
6 Even the fastest of them can't get away; the soldiers can't escape. There in the north beside the Euphrates they fall and die.
快足なる者も逃えず強者も遁れえず皆北の方にてユフラテ河の旁に蹶き仆れん
7 Who is this that's coming, rising like the Nile, like swirling rivers whose waters flood?
かのナイルのごとくに湧あがり河のごとくに其水さかまく者は誰ぞや
8 Egypt is rising like the Nile; its waters swirl like flooding rivers, boasting, “I will rise and sweep over the earth; I will destroy towns and the people in them.”
エジプトはナイルの如くに湧あがりその水は河の如くに逆まくなり而していふ我上りて地を蔽ひ邑とその中に住る者とを滅さん
9 Horses, charge in! Chariots, drive like crazy! Have the infantry advance: soldiers from Ethiopia and Put carrying their shields, archers from Lydia with their bows.
汝等馬に乗り車を驅馳らせよ勇士よ盾を執るエテオピア人プテ人および弓を張り挽くルデ人よ進みいづべし
10 But this is the day of the Lord God Almighty, a day of retribution when he takes vengeance on his enemies. The sword will destroy until it is satisfied, until it's had enough of their blood. The Lord God Almighty is having a sacrifice in the north country beside the Euphrates.
此は主なる萬軍のヱホバの復仇の日即ちその敵に仇を復し給ふ日なり劍は食ひて飽きその血に醉はん主なる萬軍のヱホバ北の地にてユフラテ河の旁に宰ることをなし給へばなり
11 Go and find some healing ointment in Gilead, Virgin Daughter of Egypt! But whatever you use to help you will fail, because there's nothing that will heal you.
處女よエジプトの女よギレアデに上りて乳香を取れ汝多くの藥を用ふるも益なし汝は愈ざるべし
12 The other nations have heard how you were humiliated in defeat. Everyone can hear your cries of pain. Soldiers fall over each other, and die together.
汝の恥辱は國々にきこえん汝の號泣は地に滿てり勇士は勇士にうち觸てともに仆る
13 This is the message that the Lord gave to Jeremiah the prophet about the attack by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon on Egypt:
バビロンの王ネブカデネザルが來りてエジプトの地を撃んとする事につきてヱホバの預言者ヱレミヤに告たまひし言
14 Shout a warning in Egypt! Tell everyone in Migdol, and in Memphis and Tahpanhes: Get ready to defend yourselves, because war is destroying everything around you.
汝らエジプトに宣べミグドルに示し又ノフ、タパネスに示しいふべし汝ら堅く立ちて自ら備よ 劍なんぢの四周を食ひたればなり
15 Why did Apis your bull god run away? He couldn't stand his ground because the Lord has knocked him down.
汝の力ある者いかにして拂ひ除かれしやその立ざるはヱホバこれを仆したまふに由るなり
16 Many soldiers trip and fall over one another and say, “Come on! Let's get back home to our people where we were born, otherwise we're going to be killed.”
彼多の者を蹶かせたまふ人其友の上に仆れかさなり而していふ起よ我ら滅すところの劍を避けてわが國にかへり故土にいたらんと
17 When they get there they'll say about Pharaoh king of Egypt, “He just makes a lot of noise. He wasted his opportunity.”
人彼處に叫びてエジプトの王パロは滅されたり彼は機會を失へりといふ
18 As I live, declares the King who has the name “the Lord Almighty,” the king of Babylon will come. He is like Mount Tabor that stands out from the other mountains, like Mount Carmel high above the sea.
萬軍のヱホバと名りたまふところの王いひたまふ我は活く彼は山々の中のタボルのごとく海の旁のカルメルのごとくに來らん
19 Pack your bags ready for exile, daughter living in Egypt! Memphis is going to be destroyed, an empty place where no one lives.
エジプトに住る女よ汝移轉の器皿を備へよそはノフは荒蕪となり燒れて住む人なきにいたるべければなり
20 Egypt is a beautiful young cow, but a stinging insect from the north is coming to attack her.
エジプトは至美しき牝の犢のごとし蜚虻きたり北の方より來る
21 The soldiers that Egypt hired are like calves made fat for slaughter. They will also retreat. They won't stand and fight—they will all run away. Their day of destruction is coming; the time when they'll be punished.
また其中の傭人は肥たる犢のごとし彼ら轉向てともに逃げ立ことをせず是その滅さるる日いたり其罰せらるる時來りたればなり
22 The Egyptians will retreat with a rustle like a snake sliding away, because the enemy will attack them with axes, coming at them like wood-cutters chopping down trees.
彼は蛇の如く聲をいだす彼ら軍勢を率ゐて來り樵夫の如く斧をもて之にのぞめり
23 They will cut them down like a thick forest, declares the Lord, because the invaders are like a swarm of locusts—there's so many of them that they can't be counted.
ヱホバいひ給ふ彼らは探りえざるに由りて彼の林を砍仆せり彼等は蝗蟲よりも多して數へがたし
24 The people of Egypt will be humiliated. They will be handed over to the people of the north.
エジプトの女は辱められ北の民の手に付されん
25 The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Watch, because I will punish Amon, the god of Thebes, and Pharaoh. I will punish the people of Egypt with their gods and kings, and everyone who trusts in Pharaoh.
萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神いひ給ふ視よわれノフのアモンとパロとエジプトとその諸神とその王等すなはちパロとかれを賴むものとを罰せん
26 I'm going to hand them over to those who want to kill them, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after all this happens, people will live in Egypt as they used to, declares the Lord.
われ彼らを其生命を索むる者の手とバビロンの王ネブカデネザルの手とその臣僕の手に付すべしその後この地は昔のごとく人の住むところとならんとヱホバいひたまふ
27 But you, descendants of Jacob my servant, you don't have to be fearful. Israelites, you don't need to be discouraged. I promise to rescue you from your distant places of exile, your descendants from the countries where they're being held captive. You will go home to a quiet and comfortable life, free from any threats.
我僕ヤコブよ怖るる勿れイスラエルよ驚く勿れ視よわれ汝を遠方より救ひきたり汝の子孫をその擄移されたる地より救ひとるべしヤコブは歸りて平安と寧靜をえん彼を畏れしむる者なかるべし
28 You descendants of Jacob, don't be afraid! declares the Lord, for I will be with you. I will completely destroy all the nations where I've scattered you, I won't completely destroy you. However, I will discipline you as you deserve, and you can be sure I won't leave you unpunished.
ヱホバいひたまふ我僕ヤコブよ汝怖るる勿れ我汝と偕にあればなり我汝を逐やりし國々を悉く滅すべけれど汝をば悉くは滅さじわれ道をもて汝を懲し汝を全くは罪なき者とせざるべし
