Ezekiel 17
1 And the worde of the Lord came vnto mee, saying,
爰にヱホバの言我にのぞみて言ふ
2 Sonne of man, put foorth a parable and speake a prouerbe vnto the house of Israel,
人の子よ汝イスラエルの家に謎をかけ譬言を語りて
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord God, The great eagle with great wings, and long wings, and ful of fethers, which had diuers colours, came vnto Lebanon, and tooke the highest branch of the cedar,
言べし主ヱホバかく言たまふ大なる翼長き羽ありて種々の色の毛の滿たる大鷲レバノンに來りて香柏の梢を採り
4 And brake off the toppe of his twigge, and caried it into the land of marchants, and set it in a citie of marchants.
其芽の巓を摘みカナンの地にこれを持きたりて商人の邑に置きけるが
5 Hee tooke also of the seede of the lande, and planted it in a fruitfull ground: hee placed it by great waters, and set it as a willowe tree.
又その地の種をとりて之を種田に播けりすなはち之を水の多き處にもちゆきて柳のごとくにこれを樹しに
6 And it budded vp, and was like a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward it, and the rootes thereof were vnder it: so it became a vine, and it brought foorth branches, and shot foorth buds.
成長ちて丈卑き垂さがりたる葡萄樹となり其枝は鷲にむかひその根は鷲の下にあり遂に葡萄樹となりて芽をふき葉を出す
7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers, and beholde, this vine did turne her rootes toward it, and spred foorth her branches toward it, that she might water it by the trenches of her plantation.
此に又大なる翼多くの羽ある一箇の大鷲ありしがその葡萄樹根をこれにむかひて張り枝をこれにむかひて伸べ之をしてその植りたる地の外より水を灌がしめんとす
8 It was planted in a good soyle by great waters, that it should bring forth branches, and beare fruite, and be an excellent vine.
抑是を善き圃に多くの水の旁に植たるは根を張り實をむすびて盛なる葡萄樹とならしめんためなりき
9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, Shall it prosper? shall he not pull vp the rootes thereof, and destroy the fruite thereof, and cause them to drie? all the leaues of her bud shall wither without great power, or many people, to plucke it vp by the rootes thereof.
なんぢ主ヱホバかく言ふといふべし是旺盛になるや鷲その根を拔きその果を絕ちて之を枯しめざらんや其芽の若葉は皆枯ん之を根より擧るには強き腕と多くの人を用ふるにおよばざるなり
10 Beholde, it was planted: but shall it prosper? shall it not be dried vp, and wither? when the East winde shall touch it, it shall wither in the trenches, where it grewe.
是は樹られたれども旺盛にならんや東風これに當らば枯果ざらんや是その生たるところの地に枯べし
11 Moreouer, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
ヱホバの言また我にのぞみて言ふ
12 Say now to this rebellious house, Know ye not, what these things meane? tell them, Behold, the King of Babel is come to Ierusalem, and hath taken the King thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babel,
背ける家に言ふべし汝等此の何たるを知ざるかと又言へ視よバビロンの王ヱルサレムに來りその王とその牧伯等を執へてこれをバビロンに曳ゆけり
13 And hath taken one of the Kings seede, and made a couenant with him, and hath taken an othe of him: he hath also taken the princes of the land,
彼また王の族の一人を取てこれと契約を立て誓言をなさしめ又國の強き者等を執へゆけり
14 That the kingdome might be in subiection, and not lift it selfe vp, but keepe their couenant, and stand to it.
是この國を卑くして自ら立つことを得ざらしめその人をして契約を守りてこれを堅うせしめんがためなりき
15 But he rebelled against him, and sent his ambassadours into Egypt, that they might giue him horses, and much people: shall hee prosper? shall he escape, that doeth such things? or shall he breake the couenant, and be deliuered?
然るに彼これに背きて使者をエジプトに遣し馬と多くの人を己におくらしめんとせり彼旺盛にならんや是を爲る者逃るることをえんや彼その契約をやぶりたり爭で逃るることを得んや
16 As I liue, saith the Lord God, he shall die in the middes of Babel, in the place of the King, that had made him King, whose othe he despised, and whose couenant made with him, he brake.
主ヱホバいひたまふ我は活く必ず彼は己を王となしたる彼王の處に偕にをりてバビロンに死べし彼その王の誓言を輕んじ其契約を破りたるなり
17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mightie hoste, and great multitude of people, mainteine him in the warre, when they haue cast vp mounts, and builded ramparts to destroy many persons.
夫壘を築き雲梯を建てて衆多の人を殺さんとする時にはパロ大なる軍勢と衆多の人をもて彼のために戰爭をなさじ
18 For he hath despised the othe, and broken ye couenant (yet lo, he had giuen his hand) because he hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
彼は誓言を輕んじて契約を破る彼手を與へて却て此等の事をなしたれば逃るることを得ざるべし
19 Therefore, thus sayth the Lord God, As I liue, I wil surely bring mine othe that he hath despised, and my couenant that he hath broken vpon his owne head.
故に主ヱホバかく言たまふ我は活く彼が我の誓言を輕んじ我の契約をやぶりたる事を必ずかれの首にむくいん
20 And I wil spread my net vpon him, and he shalbe taken in my net, and I wil bring him to Babel, and will enter into iudgement with him there for his trespas that he hath committed against me.
我わが網をかれの上にうちかけ彼をわが羅にとらへてバビロンに曳ゆき彼が我にむかひて爲しところの叛逆につきて彼を鞫くべし
21 And all that flee from him with all his hoste, shall fall by the sword, and they that remaine, shalbe scattered towarde all the windes: and ye shall know that I the Lord haue spoken it.
彼の諸の軍隊の逃脱者は皆刀に仆れ生殘れる者は八方に散さるべし汝等は我ヱホバがこれを言しなるを知にいたらん
22 Thus saith the Lord God, I wil also take off the top of this hie cedar, and wil set it, and cut off the top of the tender plant thereof, and I wil plant it vpon an hie mountaine and great.
主ヱホバかく言たまふ我高き香柏の梢の一を取てこれを樹ゑその芽の巓より若芽を摘みとりて之を高き勝れたる山に樹べし
23 Euen in the hie mountaine of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughes and beare fruite, and be an excellent cedar, and vnder it shall remaine all birds, and euery foule shall dwell in the shadow of the branches thereof.
イスラエルの高山に我これを植ん是は枝を生じ果をむすびて榮華なる香柏となり諸の類の鳥皆その下に棲ひその枝の蔭に住はん
24 And all the trees of the fielde shall knowe that I the Lord haue brought downe the hie tree, and exalted the lowe tree, that I haue dried vp the greene tree, and made the drie tree to florish: I the Lord haue spoken it, and haue done it.
是に於て野の樹みな我ヱホバが高き樹を卑くし卑き樹を高くし綠なる樹を枯しめ枯木を綠ならしめしことを知ん我ヱホバこれを言ひ之を爲なり
