Jeremiah 38
1 And Shephatiah son of Mattan, and Gedaliah son of Pashhur, and Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchiah, hear the words that Jeremiah is speaking to all the people, saying,
マツタンの子シパテヤ、パシユルの子ゲダリヤ、シレミヤの子ユカル、マルキヤの子パシユル、ヱレミヤがすべての民に告たるその言を聞り
2 “Thus said YHWH: He who is remaining in this city dies, by sword, by famine, and by pestilence, and he who is going forth to the Chaldeans lives, and his soul has been to him for a prey, and he lives.
云くヱホバかくいひたまふこの邑に留まるものは劍と饑饉と疫病に死べし然どいでてカルデヤ人に降る者は生んすなはちその生命をおのれの掠取物となして生べし
3 Thus said YHWH: This city is certainly given into the hand of the force of the king of Babylon, and he has captured it.”
ヱホバかくいひたまふこの邑は必ずバビロン王の軍勢の手に付されん彼之を取べしと
4 And the heads say to the king, “Now let this man be put to death, because that he is making feeble the hands of the men of war who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking to them according to these words, for this man is not seeking for the peace of this people, but for its calamity.”
是をもてかの牧伯等王にいひけるは請ふこの人を殺したまへ彼はかくの如き言をのべて此邑に遺れる兵卒の手と民の手を弱くす夫人は民の安を求めずして其害を求むるなりと
5 And King Zedekiah says, “Behold, he [is] in your hand: for the king is not able [to do] anything against you.”
ゼデキヤ王いひけるは視よ彼は汝らの手にあり王は汝らに逆ふこと能はざるなりと
6 And they take Jeremiah, and cast him into the pit of Malchiah son of the king, that [is] in the court of the prison, and they send Jeremiah down with cords; and there is no water in the pit, but mire, and Jeremiah sinks in the mire.
彼らすなはちヱレミヤを取て獄の庭にあるハンメレクの子マルキヤの阱に投いる即ち索をもてヱレミヤを縋下せしがその阱は水なくして汚泥のみなりければヱレミヤは汚泥のなかに沈めり
7 And Ebed-Melech the Cushite, a eunuch who [is] in the king’s house, hears that they have put Jeremiah into the pit; and the king is sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,
王の室の寺人エテオピア人エベデメレク彼らがヱレミヤを阱になげいれしを聞り時に王ベニヤミンの門に坐しゐたれば
8 and Ebed-Melech goes forth from the king’s house, and speaks to the king, saying,
エベデメレク王の室よりいでゆきて王にいひけるは
9 “My lord, O king, these men have done evil [in] all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the pit, and he dies in his place because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.”
王わが君よかの人々が預言者ヱレミヤに行ひし事は皆好らず彼らこれを阱になげ入たり邑の中に食物なければ彼はその居るところに餓死せん
10 And the king commands Ebed-Melech the Cushite, saying, “Take with you thirty men from here, and you have brought up Jeremiah the prophet from the pit, before he dies.”
王エテオピヤ人エベデメレクに命じていひけるは汝ここより三十人を携へゆきて預言者ヱレミヤをその死ざる先にを阱より曳あげよ
11 And Ebed-Melech takes the men with him, and enters the house of the king, to the place of the treasury, and takes there worn-out shreds of cloth, and worn-out rags, and sends them by cords into the pit to Jeremiah.
エベデメレクすなはちその人々を携へて王の室の庫の下にいり其處より破れたる舊き衣の布片をとり索をもてこれをを阱にをるヱレミヤの所に縋下せり
12 And Ebed-Melech the Cushite says to Jeremiah, “Now put the worn-out pieces of cloth and rags under your arms, at the place of the cords,” and Jeremiah does so,
而してエテオピア人エベデメレク、ヱレミヤに告て汝この破れたる舊き衣の布片を汝の腋の下にはさみて索に當よと云ければヱレミヤ然なせり
13 and they draw Jeremiah out with cords, and bring him up out of the pit, and Jeremiah dwells in the court of the prison.
彼らすなはち索をもてヱレミヤを阱より曳あげたりヱレミヤは獄の庭にをる
14 And King Zedekiah sends, and takes Jeremiah the prophet to him, to the third entrance that [is] in the house of YHWH, and the king says to Jeremiah, “I am asking you something, do not hide anything from me.”
かくてゼデキヤ王人を遣はして預言者ヱレミヤをヱホバの室の第三の門につれきたらしめ王ヱレミヤにいひけるは我汝に問ことあり毫もわれに隱す勿れ
15 And Jeremiah says to Zedekiah, “When I declare [it] to you, do you not surely put me to death? And when I counsel you, you do not listen to me.”
ヱレミヤ、ゼデキヤにいひけるは我もし汝に示さば汝かならず我を殺さざらんや假令われ汝を勸むるとも汝われに聽じ
16 And King Zedekiah swears to Jeremiah in secret, saying, “YHWH lives, He who made this soul for us, I do not put you to death, nor give you into the hand of these men who are seeking your soul.”
ゼデキヤ王密にヱレミヤに誓ひていひけるは我らにこの靈魂を造りあたへしヱホバは活く我汝を殺さず汝の生命を索むる者の手に汝を付さじ
17 And Jeremiah says to Zedekiah, “Thus said YHWH, God of Hosts, God of Israel: If you certainly go forth to the heads of the king of Babylon, then your soul has lived, and this city is not burned with fire, indeed, you have lived, you and your house.
ヱレミヤ、ゼデキヤにいひけるは萬軍の神イスラエルの神ヱホバかくいひたまふ汝もしまことにバビロン王の牧伯等に降らば汝の生命活んまた此邑は火にて焚れず汝と汝の家の者はいくべし
18 And if you do not go forth to the heads of the king of Babylon, then this city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they have burned it with fire, and you do not escape from their hand.”
然ど汝もし出てバビロンの王の牧伯等に降らずば此邑はカルデヤ人の手に付されん彼らは火をもて之を焚ん汝はその手を脱れざるべし
19 And King Zedekiah says to Jeremiah, “I am fearing the Jews who have fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they give me into their hand, and they have insulted me.”
ゼデキヤ王ヱレミヤに云けるは我カルデヤ人に降りしところのユダ人を恐る恐くはカルデヤ人我をかれらの手に付さん彼ら我を辱しめん
20 And Jeremiah says, “They do not give you up; please listen to the voice of YHWH, to that which I am speaking to you, and it is well for you, and your soul lives.
ヱレミヤいひけるは彼らは汝を付さじ願くはわが汝に告しヱホバの聲に聽したがひたまへさらば汝祥をえん汝の生命いきん
21 And if you are refusing to go forth, this [is] the thing that YHWH has shown me:
然ど汝もし降ることを否まばヱホバこの言を我に示し給ふ
22 That, behold, all the women who have been left in the house of the king of Judah are brought forth to the heads of the king of Babylon, and behold, they are saying: Persuaded you, and prevailed against you, Have your allies, Your feet have sunk into mire, They have been turned backward.
すなはちユダの王の室に遺れる婦は皆バビロンの王の牧伯等の所に曳いだされん其婦等いはん汝の朋友等は汝を誘ひて汝に勝り汝の足は泥に沈む彼らは退き去る
23 And all your wives and your sons are brought forth to the Chaldeans, and you do not escape from their hand, for you are caught by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city is burned with fire.”
汝の妻たちと汝の子女等はカルデヤ人の所に曳出されん汝は其手を脱れじバビロンの王の手に執へられん汝此邑をして火に焚しめん
24 And Zedekiah says to Jeremiah, “Let no man know of these words, and you do not die;
ゼデキヤ、ヱレミヤにいひけるは汝この事を人に知する勿れさらば汝殺されじ
25 and when the heads hear that I have spoken with you, and they have come to you, and have said to you, Now declare to us what you spoke to the king, do not hide [it] from us, and we do not put you to death, and what the king spoke to you,
もし牧伯等わが汝と語りしことを我儕に告げよ我らに隱す勿れ然ば我ら汝を殺さじ又王の汝に語りしことを告よといはば
26 then you have said to them, I am causing my supplication to fall before the king, not to cause me to return to the house of Jonathan, to die there.”
汝彼らに答へて我王に求めて我をヨナタンの家に歸して彼處に死しむること勿れといへりといふべし
27 And all the heads come to Jeremiah, and ask him, and he declares to them according to all these words that the king commanded, and they keep silent from him, for the matter was not heard;
かくて牧伯等ヱレミヤにきたりて問けるに彼王の命ぜし言のごとく彼らに告たればその事露はれざりき是をもて彼ら彼とものいふことを罷たり
28 and Jeremiah dwells in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem has been captured, and he was [there] when Jerusalem was captured.
ヱレミヤはヱルサレムの取るる日まで獄の庭に居りしがヱルサレムの取れし時にも彼處にをれり
