Ezekiel 17
1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
爰にヱホバの言我にのぞみて言ふ
2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to 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 says the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, long winged, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came to Lebanon, and took 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 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
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 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow 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 grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
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, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows 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 soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly 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 you, Thus says the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots 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 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
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 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
ヱホバの言また我にのぞみて言ふ
12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know you not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and has taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
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 has taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and has taken an oath of him: he has also taken the mighty 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 kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
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 in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that does such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
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 live, says the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwells that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he shall die.
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 mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off 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 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, see, he had given his hand, and has 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 says the Lord GOD; As I live, surely my oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, even it will I recompense on his own 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 will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed 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 his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and you shall know that I the LORD have 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 says the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on an high mountain and eminent:
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 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
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 field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have 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
