Daniel 2

1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar has dreamed dreams, and his spirit moves itself, and his sleep has been against him;

ネブカデネザルの治世の二年にネブカデネザル夢を見それがために心に思ひなやみて復睡ること能はざりき

2 and the king says to call for enchanters, and for conjurers, and for sorcerers, and for Chaldeans, to declare to the king his dreams. And they come in and stand before the king;

是をもて王は命を下し王のためにその夢を解せんとて博士と法術士と魔術士とカルデヤ人とを召しめたれぼ彼ら來りて王の前に立つ

3 and the king says to them, “I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is moved to know the dream.”

王すなはち彼らにむかひ我夢を見その夢の義を知んと心に思ひなやむと言ければ

4 And the Chaldeans speak to the king [in] Aramaic, “O king, live for all ages, tell the dream to your servants, and we show the interpretation.”

カルデヤ人等スリア語をもて王に申しけるは願くは王長壽かれ請ふ僕等にその夢を語りたまへ我らその解明を進めたてまつらんと

5 The king has answered and said to the Chaldeans, “The thing is gone from me; if you do not cause me to know the dream and its interpretation, you are made pieces, and your houses are made dunghills;

王こたへてカルデヤ人に言けるは我すでに命を出せり汝等もしその夢とこれが解明とを我に示さざるにおいては汝らの身は切裂れ汝らの家は厠にせられん

6 and if the dream and its interpretation you show, gifts, and fee, and great glory you receive from before me, therefore the dream and its interpretation you show me.”

又汝らもしその夢とこれが解明を示さば贐物と賞賚と大なる尊榮とを我より獲ん然ばその夢と之が解明を我に示せ

7 They have answered a second time, and are saying, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we show the interpretation.”

彼らまた對へて言けるは願くは王僕どもにその夢を語りたまへ然ば我らその解明を奏すべしと

8 The king has answered and said, “Of a truth I know that you are gaining time, because that you have seen that the thing is gone from me,

王こたへて言けるは我あきらかに知る汝らは吾命の下りしを見るが故に時を延さんことを望むなり

9 [so] that, if you do not cause me to know the dream—one is your sentence, seeing a lying and corrupt word you have prepared to speak before me, until the time is changed, therefore tell the dream to me, then I know that you show me its interpretation.”

汝らもしその夢を我に示さずば汝らを處置するの法は只一のみ汝らは相語らひて虚言と妄誕なる詞を我前にのべて時の變るを待んとするなり汝ら今先その夢を我に示せ然すれば汝らがその解明をも我にしめし得ることを我しらんと

10 The Chaldeans have answered before the king, and are saying, “There is not a man on the earth who is able to show the king’s matter; therefore, no king, chief, and ruler, has asked such a thing as this of any scribe, and enchanter, and Chaldean;

カルデヤ人等こたへて王の前に申しけるは世の中には王のその事を示し得る人一箇もなし是をもて王たる者主たる者君たる者等の中に斯る事を博士または法術士またはカルデヤ人に問たづねし者絶てあらざるなり

11 and the thing that the king is asking [is] precious, and there are no others that show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”

王の問たまふその事は甚だ難し肉身なる者と共に居ざる神々を除きては王の前にこれを示すことを得る者無るべしと

12 Therefore the king has been furious and very angry, and has said to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

斯りしかば王怒を發し大に憤りバビロンの智者をことごとく殺せと命じたり

13 And the sentence has gone forth, and the wise men are being slain, and they have sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.

即ち此命くだりければ智者等は殺されんとせり又ダニエルとその同僚をも殺さんともとめたり

14 Then Daniel has replied [with] counsel and discretion to Arioch chief of the executioners of the king, who has gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon.

茲に王の侍衛の長アリオク、バビロンの智者等を殺さんとて出きたりければダニエル遠慮と智慧とをもて之に應答せり

15 He has answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, “Why [is] the sentence so urgent from before the king?” Then Arioch has made the thing known to Daniel,

すなはち王の高官アリオクに對へて言けるは王なにとて斯すみやかにこの命を下したまひしやとアリオクその事をダニエルに告しらせたれば

16 and Daniel has gone up, and sought of the king that he would give him time to show the interpretation to the king.

ダニエルいりて王に乞求めて言ふ暫くの時日を賜へ然ばその解明を王に奏せんと

17 Then Daniel has gone to his house, and to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, he has made the thing known,

斯てダニエルその家にかへりその同僚ハナニヤ、ミシヤエルおよびアザリヤにこの事を告しらせ

18 and to seek mercies from before the God of the heavens concerning this secret, that they do not destroy Daniel and his companions with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

共にこの秘密につき天の神の憐憫を乞ひダニエルとその同僚等をしてその他のバビロンの智者とともに滅びさらしめんことを求めたりしが

19 Then to Daniel, in a vision of the night, the secret has been revealed. Then Daniel has blessed the God of the heavens.

ダニエルつひに夜の異象の中にこの秘密を示されければダニエル天の神を賞賛ふ

20 Daniel has answered and said, “Let the Name of God be blessed from age even to age, for wisdom and might—for they are His.

即ちダニエル應へて言けるは永遠より永遠にいたるまでこの神の御名は讃まつるべきなり智慧と權能はこれが有なればなり

21 And He is changing times and seasons, He is causing kings to pass away, and He is raising up kings; He is giving wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those possessing understanding.

彼は時と期とを變じ王を廃し王を立て智者に智慧を與へ賢者に知識を賜ふ

22 He is revealing deep and hidden things; He has known what [is] in darkness, and light has dwelt with Him.

彼は深妙秘密の事を顕し幽暗にあるところの者を知たまふまた光明彼の裏にあり

23 You, O God of my fathers, I am thanking and praising, for wisdom and might You have given to me; and now, You have caused me to know that which we have sought from You, for the king’s matter You have caused us to know.”

わが先祖等の神よ汝は我に智慧と權能を賜ひ今われらが汝に乞求めたるところの事を我にしめし給へば我感謝して汝を賞賛ふ即ち汝は王のかの事を我らに示したまへり

24 Therefore Daniel has gone up to Arioch, whom the king has appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he has gone, and thus has said to him, “You do not destroy the wise men of Babylon, bring me up before the king, and I show the interpretation to the king.”

是においてダニエルは王がバビロンの智者等を殺すことを命じおけるアリオクの許にいたり即ちいりてこれに言けるはバビロンの智者等を殺す勿れ我を王の前に引いたれよ我その解明を王に奏上ぐべしと

25 Then Arioch in haste has brought up Daniel before the king, and thus has said to him, “I have found a man of the sons of the expulsion of Judah, who makes known the interpretation to the king.”

アリオクすなはちダニエルを引て急ぎ王の前にいたり王にまうしけるは我ユダの俘囚人の中に一箇の人を得たり是者その解明を王にまうしあげん

26 The king has answered and said to Daniel, whose name [is] Belteshazzar, “Are you able to cause me to know the dream that I have seen, and its interpretation?”

王こたへてベルテシヤザルと名くるダニエルに言けるは汝は我が見たる夢とその解明とを我に知らすることを得るやと

27 Daniel has answered before the king and said, “The secret that the king is asking, the wise men, the enchanters, the scribes, the soothsayers, are not able to show to the king;

ダニエルすなはち應へて王の前に言けるは王の問たまふ秘密は智者法術士博士卜筮師など之を王に奏上ぐることを得ず

28 but there is a God in the heavens, a revealer of secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar that which [is] to be in the latter end of the days. Your dream and the visions of your head on your bed are these:

然ど天に一の神ありて秘密をあらはし給ふ彼後の日に起らんところの事の如何なるかをネブカデネザル王にしらせたまふなり汝の夢汝が牀にありて想見たまひし汝の脳中の異象は是なり

29 You, O king, your thoughts on your bed have come up [concerning] that which [is] to be after this, and the Revealer of secrets has caused you to know that which [is] to be.

王よ汝牀にいりし時将來の事の如何を想ひまはしたまひしが秘密を顕す者将來の事の如何を汝にしめし給へり

30 As for me—not for [any] wisdom that is in me above any living has this secret been revealed to me; but for the intent that the interpretation to the king they make known, and the thoughts of your heart you know.

我がこの示現を蒙れるは凡の生る者にまさりて我に智慧あるに由にあらず唯その解明を王に知しむる事ありて王のつひにその心に想ひたまひし事を知にいたり給はんがためなり

31 You, O king, were looking, and behold, a certain great image. This image [is] mighty, and its brightness excellent; it is standing before you, and its appearance [is] terrible.

王よ汝は一箇の巨なる像の汝の前に立るを見たまへり其像は大くしてその光輝は常ならずその形は畏ろしくあり

32 This image! Its head [is] of fine gold, its breasts and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze;

其像は頭は純金 胸と兩腕とは銀 腹と腿とは銅

33 its legs of iron, its feet, part of them of iron, and part of them of clay.

脛は鉄 脚は一分は鉄一分は泥土なり

34 You were looking until a stone has been cut out without hands, and it has struck the image on its feet, that [are] of iron and of clay, and it has broken them small;

汝見て居たまひしに遂に一箇の石人手によらずして鑿れて出でその像の鉄と泥土との脚を撃てこれを碎けり

35 then broken small together have been the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, and they have been as chaff from the summer threshing-floor, and the wind has carried them away, and no place has been found for them: and the stone that struck the image has become a great mountain, and has filled all the land.

斯りしかばその鉄と泥土と銅と銀と金とは皆ともに碎けて夏の禾場の糠のごとくに成り風に吹はらはれて止るところ無りき而してその像を撃たる石は大なる山となりて全地に充り

36 This [is] the dream, and its interpretation we tell before the king.

是その夢なり我らその解明を王の前に陳ん

37 You, O king, are a king of kings, for the God of the heavens a kingdom, strength, and might, and glory, has given to you;

王よ汝は諸王の王にいませり即ち天の神汝に國と權威と能力と尊貴とを賜へり

38 and wherever sons of men are dwelling, the beast of the field, and the bird of the heavens, He has given into your hand, and has caused you to rule over them all; you [are] this head of gold.

また人の子等等の獣畜かよび天空の鳥は何處にをる者にもあれ皆これを汝の手に與へて汝にこれをことごとく治めしめたまふ汝はすなはち此金の頭なり

39 And after you another kingdom arises lower than those, and another third kingdom of bronze, that rules over all the earth.

汝の後に汝に劣る一の國おこらんまた第三に銅の國おこりて全世界を治めん

40 And the fourth kingdom is strong as iron, because that iron is breaking small, and making feeble, all [things], even as iron that is breaking all these, it beats small and breaks.

第四の國は堅きこと鉄のごとくならん鉄は能く萬の物を毀ち碎くなり 鉄の是等をことごとく打碎くがごとく其國は毀ちかつ碎くことをせん

41 As for that which you have seen: the feet and toes, part of them potter’s clay, and part of them iron, the kingdom is divided: and some of the standing of the iron [is] to be in it, because that you have seen the iron mixed with miry clay.

汝その足と足の趾を見たまひしに一分は陶人の泥土一分は鉄なりければその國は分裂たる者ならん又汝鉄と粘土との混和たるを見たまひたればその國は鉄のごとく強からん

42 As for the toes of the feet, part of them iron, and part of them clay: some part of the kingdom is strong, and some part of it is brittle.

その足の趾の一分は鉄一分は泥土なりしごとくその國は強きところもあり脆きところも有ん

43 Because you have seen iron mixed with miry clay, they are mixing themselves with the seed of men: and they are not adhering with one another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

汝が鉄と粘土との混りたるを見たまひしごとく其等は人草の種子と混らん然ど鉄と泥土との相合せざるごとく彼と此と相合すること有じ

44 And in the days of these kings the God of the heavens raises up a kingdom that is not destroyed for all time, and its kingdom is not left to another people: it beats small and ends all these kingdoms, and it stands for all time.

この王等の日に天の神一の國を建たまはん是は何時までも滅ぶること無らん此國は他の民に歸せず却てこの諸の國を打破りてこれを滅せん是は立ちて永遠にいたらん

45 Because that you have seen that out of the mountain a stone has been cut without hands, and it has beaten the iron small, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king that which [is] to be after this; and the dream [is] true, and its interpretation steadfast.”

かの石の人手によらずして山より鑿れて出で鉄と銅と泥土と銀と金とを打碎きしを汝が見たまひしは即ちこの事なり大御神この後に起らんところの事を王にしらせたまへるなりその夢は眞にしてこの解明は確なり

46 Then King Nebuchadnezzar has fallen on his face, and to Daniel he has done homage, and present, and sweet things, he has said to pour out to him.

是においてネブカデネザル王は俯伏てダニエルを拝し礼物と香をこれに献ぐることを命じたり

47 The king has answered Daniel and said, “Of a truth [it is] that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.”

而して王こたへてダニエルに言けるは汝がこの秘密を明かに示すことを得たるを見れば誠に汝らの神は神等の神王等の主にして能く秘密を示す者なりと

48 Then the king has made Daniel great, and many great gifts he has given to him, and has caused him to rule over all the province of Babylon, and chief of the prefects over all the wise men of Babylon.

かくて王はダこエルに高位を授け種々の大なる賜物を與へてこれをバビロン全州の総督となしまたバビロンの智者等を統る者の首長となせり

49 And Daniel has sought from the king, and he has appointed over the work of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, and Daniel [is] in the gate of the king.

王またダニエルの願によりてシヤデラクとメシヤクとアベデネゴを挙てバビロン州の事務をつかさどらしめたりダニエルは王の宮にをる