< Jeremiah 34 >

1 The word that has been to Jeremiah from YHWH—and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his force, and all kingdoms of the land of the dominion of his hand, and all the peoples are fighting against Jerusalem, and against all its cities—saying:
バビロンの王ネブカデネザルその全軍および己の手の下に屬するところの地の列國の人および諸の民を率てヱルサレムとその諸邑を攻めて戰ふ時ヱホバの言ヱレミヤに臨みていふ
2 “Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: Go, and you have spoken to Zedekiah king of Judah, and have said to him, Thus said YHWH: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he has burned it with fire,
イスラエルの神ヱホバかくいふ汝ゆきてユダの王ゼデキヤに告ていふべしヱホバかくいひたまふ視よわれ此邑をバビロン王の手に付さん彼火をもてこれを焚べし
3 and you do not escape out of his hand, for you are certainly caught, and you are given into his hand, and your eyes see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth speaks with your mouth, and you enter Babylon.
汝はその手を脱れず必ず擒へられてこれが手に付されん汝の目はバビロン王の目をみ又かれの口は汝の口と語ふべし汝はバビロンにゆくにいたらん
4 Only, hear a word of YHWH, O Zedekiah king of Judah—thus said YHWH to you: You do not die by sword,
然どユダの王ゼデキヤよヱホバの言をきけヱホバ汝の事につきてかくいひたまふ汝は劍に死じ
5 you die in peace, and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who have been before you, so they make a burning for you; and, Oh, lord, they lament for you, for the word I have spoken—a declaration of YHWH.”
汝は安らかに死なん民は汝の先祖たる汝の先の王等の爲に香を焚しごとく汝のためにも香を焚き且汝のために嘆て嗚呼主よといはん我この言をいふとヱホバいひたまふ
6 And Jeremiah the prophet speaks all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
預言者エレミヤすなはち此言をことごとくヱルサレムにてユダの王ゼデキヤにつげたり
7 and the forces of the king of Babylon are fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that are left—against Lachish, and against Azekah, for these have been left among the cities of Judah, cities of fortresses.
時にバビロン王の軍勢はヱルサレムおよび存れるユダの諸の邑を攻めラキシとアゼカを攻て戰ひをる其はユダの諸邑のうちに是等の城の邑尚存りゐたればなり
8 The word that has been to Jeremiah from YHWH, after the making of a covenant by King Zedekiah with all the people who [are] in Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them,
ゼデキヤ王ヱルサレムに居る諸の民と契約を立てて彼らに釋放の事を宣示せし後ヱホバの言ヱレミヤに臨めり
9 to each send out his manservant, and each his maidservant—the Hebrew and the Hebrewess—free, so as not to lay service on them—on any Jew, a brother, a man;
その契約はすなはち人をしておのおの其僕婢なるヘブルの男女を釋たしめその兄弟なるユダヤ人を奴隸となさざらしむる者なりき
10 and all the heads listen, and all the people who have come into the covenant to each send forth his manservant and each his maidservant free, so as not to lay service on them anymore, indeed, they listen, and send them away;
この契約をなせし牧伯等とすべての民は人おのおのその僕婢を釋ちて再び之を奴隸となすべからずといふをききて遂にそれに聽したがひてこれを釋ちしが
11 and they turn afterward, and cause the menservants and the maidservants to return, whom they had sent forth free, and they subdue them for menservants and for maidservants.
後に心をひるがへしてその釋ちし僕婢をひきかへりて再び之を伏從はしめて僕婢となせり
12 And there is a word of YHWH to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying,
是故にヱホバの言ヱホバよりヱレミヤにのぞみて云
13 “Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day of My bringing them forth from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants, saying,
イスラエルの神ヱホバかくいふ我汝らの先祖をエジプトの地その奴隸たりし宅より導きいだせし時彼らと契約を立ていひけらく
14 At the end of seven years you each send forth his brother, the Hebrew, who is sold to you, and has served you six years, indeed, you have sent him forth from you free: and your fathers did not listen to Me, nor inclined their ear.
汝らの兄弟なるヘブル人の身を汝らに賣たる者をば七年の終に汝らおのおのこれを釋つべし彼六年汝につかへたらば之を釋つべしと然るに汝らの先祖等は我に聽ず亦その耳を傾けざりし
15 And today you turn back and you do that which is right in My eyes, to each proclaim liberty to his neighbor, and you make a covenant before Me in the house over which My Name is called.
然ど汝らは今日心をあらためておのおの其鄰人に釋放の事を示してわが目に正とみゆる事を行ひ且我名をもて稱へらるる室に於て我前に契約を立たり
16 And you turn back, and defile My Name, and you each cause his manservant and each his maidservant, whom he had sent forth free (at their pleasure), to return, and you subdue them to be for menservants and for maidservants to you.”
然るに汝ら再び心をひるがへして我名を汚し各自釋ちて其心に任せしめたる僕婢をひき歸り再び之を伏從はしめて汝らの僕婢となせり
17 Therefore, thus said YHWH: “You have not listened to Me to proclaim freedom, each to his brother, and each to his neighbor; behold, I am proclaiming to you liberty,” a declaration of YHWH, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine, and I have given you for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth.
この故にヱホバかくいひたまふ汝ら我に聽ておのおの其兄弟とその鄰に釋放の事を示さざりしによりて視よわれ汝らの爲に釋放を示して汝らを劍と饑饉と疫病にわたさん我汝らをして地の諸の國にて艱難をうけしむべし
18 And I have given the men who are transgressing My covenant, who have not established the words of the covenant that they have made before Me, by the calf, that they have cut in two, and pass through between its pieces—
ヱホバこれを云ふ犢を兩にさきて其二個の間を過り我前に契約をたてて却つて其言に從はずわが契約をやぶる人々
19 heads of Judah, and heads of Jerusalem, the officers, and the priests, and all the people of the land who had passed through between the pieces of the calf—
即ち兩に分ちし犢の間を過りしユダの牧伯等ヱルサレムの牧伯等と寺人と祭司とこの地のすべての民を
20 indeed, I have given them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their soul, and their carcass has been for food to the bird of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth.
われ其敵の手とその生命を索る者の手に付さんその屍體は天空の鳥と野の獸の食物となるべし
21 And I give Zedekiah king of Judah and his heads into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their soul, and into the hand of the forces of the king of Babylon that are going up from off you.
且われユダの王ゼデキヤとその牧伯等をその敵の手其生命を索むる者の手汝らを離れて去しバビロン王の軍勢の手に付さん
22 Behold, I am commanding,” a declaration of YHWH, “and have brought them back to this city, and they have fought against it, and captured it, and burned it with fire, and I make the cities of Judah a desolation—without inhabitant.”
ヱホバいひたまふ視よ我彼らに命じて此邑に歸らしめん彼らこの邑を攻て戰ひ之を取り火をもて焚くべしわれユダの諸邑を住人なき荒地となさん

< Jeremiah 34 >