< Judges 11 >

1 Now Yiphthach the Gil'adite was a mighty man of valor, but he was the son of a harlot; and Gil'ad had begotten Yiphthach.
ギレアデ人ヱフタはたけき勇士にして妓婦の子なりギレアデ、ヱフタをうましめしなり
2 And the wife of Gil'ad also bore him sons; and when the sons of the wife were grown up, they drove away Yiphthach, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in the house of our father: for the son of another woman art thou.
ギレアデの妻子等をうみしが妻の子等成長におよびてヱフタをおひいだしてこれにいひけるは汝は他の婦の子なればわれらが父の家を嗣べきにあらずと
3 And Yiphthach fled away from his brothers, and dwelt in the land of Tob; and there gathered themselves to Yiphthach idle men, and they went out with him.
ヱフタ其の兄弟の許より逃さりてトブの地に住けるに遊蕩者ヱフタのもとに集ひ來りて之とともに出ることをなせり
4 And it came to pass after some time, that the children of 'Ammon made war against Israel.
程經てのちアンモンの子孫イスラエルとたたかふに至りしが
5 And it was so, when the children of 'Ammon made war against Israel, that the elders of Gil'ad went to fetch Yiphthach out of the land of Tob.
アンモンの子孫のイスラエルとたたかへるときにギレアデの長老等ゆきてヱフタをトブの地より携來らんとし
6 And they said unto Yiphthach, Come, and become a leader unto us, that we may fight with the children of 'Ammon.
ヱフタにいひけるは汝來りて吾らの大將となれ我らアンモンの子孫とたたかはん
7 And Yiphthach said unto the elders of Gil'ad, Did ye not hate me, and drive me away out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now, when ye are in distress?
ヱフタ、ギレアデの長老等にいひけるは汝らは我を惡みてわが父の家より逐いだしたるにあらずやしかるに今汝らが艱める時に至りて何ぞ我に來るや
8 And the elders of Gil'ad said unto Yiphthach, Therefore are we now come back to thee, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of 'Ammon; and thou shalt become unto us a head, unto all the inhabitants of Gil'ad.
ギレアデの長老等ヱフタにこたへけるは其がために我ら今汝にかへる汝われらとともにゆきてアンモンの子孫とたたかはばすべて我等ギレアデにすめるものの首領となすべしと
9 And Yiphthach said unto the elders of Gil'ad, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of 'Ammon, and the Lord give them up before me, shall I remain your head?
ヱフタ、ギレアデの長老等にいひけるは汝らもし我をたづさへかへりてアンモンの子孫とたたかはしめんにヱホバ之を我に付したまはば我は汝らの首となるべし
10 And the elders of Gil'ad said unto Yiphthach, The Lord shall be a hearer between us, if we do not so according to thy word.
ギレアデの長老等ヱフタにいひけるはヱホバ汝と我との間の證者たり我ら誓つて汝の言のごとくになすべし
11 Then went Yiphthach with the elders of Gil'ad, and the people appointed him over them as head and as leader; and Yiphthach spoke all his words before the Lord in Mitzpah.
是に於てヱフタ、ギレアデの長老等とともに往くに民之を立ておのれの首領となし大將となせりヱフタ即ちミヅパにおいてヱホバのまへにこの言をことごとく陳たり
12 And Yiphthach sent messengers unto the king of the children of 'Ammon, saying, What have I to do with thee, that thou art come unto me to fight against my land?
かくてヱフタ、アンモンの子孫の王に使者をつかはしていひけるは汝と我の間に何事ありてか汝われに攻めきたりてわが地に戰はんとする
13 And the king of the children of 'Ammon said unto the messengers of Yiphthach, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even unto the Yabbok, and unto the Jordan: and now restore these [lands] again in peace.
アンモンの子孫の王ヱフタの使者に答へけるはむかしイスラエル、エジプトより上りきたりし時にアルノンよりヤボクにいたりヨルダンに至るまで吾が土地を奪ひしが故なり然ば今穩便に之を復すべし
14 And Yiphthach again sent messengers unto the king of the children of 'Ammon;
ヱフタまた使者をアンモンの子孫の王に遣りて之にいはせけるは
15 And he said unto him, Thus hath said Yiphthach, Israel did not take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of 'Ammon;
ヱフタ斯いへりイスラエルはモアブの地を取ずまたアンモンの子孫の地をも取ざりしなり
16 For when they came up out of Egypt, Israel walked through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;
夫イスラエルはエジプトより上りきたれる時に曠野を經て紅海に到りカデシに來れり
17 And Israel then sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me pass, I pray thee, through thy land; but the king of Edom would not hearken; and also to the king of Moab they sent; but he would not consent: and Israel remained in Kadesh.
而してイスラエル使者をエドムの王に遣して言けるはねがはくは我をして汝の土地を經過しめよと然るにエドムの王之をうけがはずまたおなじく人をモアブの王に遣したれども是もうべなはざりしかばイスラエルはカデシに留まりしが
18 Then they wandered through the wilderness, and traveled round the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came from the rising of the sun to the land of Moab, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon: but they came not within the border of Moab; for the Arnon is the boundary of Moab.
遂にイスラエル曠野を經てエドムの地およびモアブの地を繞りモアブの地の東の方に出てアルノンの彼方に陣を取り然どモアブの界には入らざりきアルノンはモアブの界なればなり
19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sichon the king of the Emorites, the king of Cheshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land unto my place.
かくてイスラエル、ヘシボンに王たりしアモリ人の王シホンに使者を遣せりすなはちイスラエル之にいひけらくねがはくは我らをして汝の土地を經過てわがところにいたらしめよと
20 But Sichon trusted not Israel to [let them] pass through his territory; and Sichon assembled all his people, and encamped in Yahaz, and fought against Israel.
然るにシホン、イスラエルを信ぜずしてその界をとほらしめずかへつてそのすべての民を集めてヤハヅに陣しイスラエルとたたかひしが
21 and the Lord the God of Israel delivered Sichon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them; and Israel took possession of all the land of the Emorites, the inhabitants of that country.
イスラエルの神ヱホバ、シホンとそのすべての民をイスラエルの手に付したまひたればイスラエル之を撃敗りてその土地にすめるアモリ人の地を悉く手に入れ
22 And they took possession of all the territory of the Emorites, from the Arnon even unto the Yabbok, and from the wilderness even unto the Jordan.
アルノンよりヤボクに至るまでまた曠野よりヨルダンに至るまですべてアモリ人の土地を手に入たり
23 So now the Lord the God of Israel hath dispossessed the Emorites from before his people Israel, and shouldst thou possess it?
斯のごとくイスラエルの神ヱホバは其の民イスラエルのまへよりアモリ人を逐しりぞけたまひしに汝なほ之を取んとする乎
24 Truly! that which Kemosh thy god may give thee to possess, even that canst thou possess; but whatsoever the Lord our God hath driven out from before us, even that will we possess.
汝は汝の神ケモシが汝に取しむるものを取ざらんやわれらは我らの神ヱホバが我らに取しむる物を取ん
25 And now art thou then any better than Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
汝は誠にモアブの王チツポルの子バラクにまされる處ありとするかバラク曾てイスラエルとあらそひしことありや曾て之とたたかひしことありや
26 [And] while Israel hath dwelt in Cheshbon and in its towns, and in 'Ar'or and in its towns, and in all the cities that are along the margins of the Arnon, three hundred years: why did ye not recover them within that time?
イスラエルがヘシボンとその村里アロエルとその村里およびアルノンの岸に沿ひたるすべての邑々に住ること三百年なりしに汝などてかその間に之を回復さざりしや
27 Whereas I myself have not sinned against thee, and thou doest me wrong to war against me: may the Lord, the Judge, decide this day between the children of Israel and the children of 'Ammon.
我は汝に罪を犯せしことなきに汝はわれとたたかひて我に害をくはへんとす願くは審判をなしたまふヱホバ今日イスラエルの子孫とアンモンの子孫との間を鞫きたまへと
28 Nevertheless the king of the children of 'Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Yiphthach which he had sent to him.
しかれどもアンモンの子孫の王はヱフタのいひつかはせる言を聽いれざりき
29 Then came upon Yiphthach the spirit of the Lord, and he passed through Gil'ad and Menasseh, and passed through Mitzpeh of Gil'ad, and from Mitzpeh of Gil'ad he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
ここにヱホバの靈ヱフタに臨みしかばヱフタすなはちギレアデおよびマナセを經過りギレアデのミヅパにいたりギレアデのミヅパよりすすみてアンモンの子孫に向ふ
30 And Yiphthach made a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of 'Ammon into my hand,
ヱフタ、ヱホバに誓願を立ていひけるは汝誠にアンモンの子孫をわが手に付したまはば
31 Then shall it be, that whatsoever cometh forth out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of 'Ammon, shall belong to the Lord, and I will offer it up for a burnt-offering.
我がアンモンの子孫の所より安然かに歸らんときに我家の戸より出きたりて我を迎ふるもの必ずヱホバの所有となるべし我之を燔祭となしてささげんと
32 So Yiphthach passed over unto the children of 'Ammon to fight against them: and the Lord delivered them into his hand.
ヱフタすなはちアンモンの子孫の所に進みゆきて之と戰ひしにヱホバかれらをその手に付したまひしかば
33 And he smote them from 'Aro'er, even till thou comest to Minnith, twenty cities, and unto Abel-keramin, with a very great defeat; and the children of 'Ammon were humbled before the children of Israel.
アロエルよりミンニテにまで至りこれが二十の邑を打敗りてアベルケラミムにいたり甚だ多の人をころせりかくアンモンの子孫はイスラエルの子孫に攻伏られたり
34 And Yiphthach came to Mizpah unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his sole child; he had beside her neither son nor daughter.
かくてヱフタ、ミヅパに來りておのが家にいたるに其女鼓を執り舞ひ踊りて之を出で迎ふ是彼が獨子にて其のほかには男子もなくまた女子も有ざりき
35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his garments, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast bent me down very low, and thou art one of those that trouble me; for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.
ヱフタ之を視てその衣を裂ていひけるはああ吾が女よ汝實に我を傷しむ汝は我を惱すものなり其は我ヱホバにむかひて口を開きしによりて改むることあたはざればなり
36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do to me in accordance with what hath proceeded out of thy mouth; since the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee on thy enemies, on the children of 'Ammon.
女之にいひけるはわが父よ汝ヱホバにむかひて口をひらきたれば汝の口より言出せしごとく我になせよ其はヱホバ汝のために汝の敵なるアンモンの子孫に仇を復したまひたればなり
37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: Let me alone two months, that I may descend to the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I with my companions.
女またその父にいひけるはねがはくは此事をわれに允せすなはち二月の間我をゆるし我をしてわが友等とともに往て山にくだりてわが處女たることを歎かしめよと
38 And he aid, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity on the mountains.
ヱフタすなはち往けといひて之を二月のあひだ出し遣ぬ女その友等とともに往き山の上にておのれの處女たるを歎きしが
39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, and he fulfilled on her his vow which he had vowed; and she knew no man; and it became a custom in Israel,
二月滿てその父に歸り來りたれば父その誓ひし誓願のごとくに之に行へり女は終に男を知ことなかりき
40 That the daughters of Israel went from year to year to lament for the daughter of Yiphthach the Gil'adite four days in the year.
是よりして年々にイスラエルの女子等往て年に四日ほどギレアデ人ヱフタの女のために哀哭ことをなす是イスラエルの規矩となれり

< Judges 11 >