Jeremiah 51
1 Thus, saith Yahweh—Behold me! stirring up against Babylon, And against the inhabitants of the centre of them who rise up against me, —A wind that destroyeth;
ヱホバかくいひたまふ視よわれ滅すところの風を起してバビロンを攻め我に悖る者の中に住む者を攻べし
2 And I will send to Babylon winnowers, And they shall winnow her, And shall empty her land, —For they are against her round about in the day of calamity.
われ簸者をバビロンに遣さん彼らこれを簸てその地を空くせん彼らすなはちその禍の日にこれを四方より攻むべし
3 Let not the archer tread his bow, Nor lift himself up in his coat of mail, —And do not spare her young men, Devote to destruction all her host.
弓を張る者に向ひまた鎧を被て立あがる者に向ひて射者の者其弓を張らん汝らその壯者を憫れまず其軍勢を悉く滅すべし
4 So shall they fall wounded in the land of Chaldea, —Yea thrust through, in her streets,
然ば殺さるる者カルデヤ人の地に踣れ刺るる者その街に踣れん
5 For Israel and Judah have not been widowed Of their God, Of Yahweh of hosts, —But, their land, hath been filled with punishment for guilt from the Holy One of Israel
イスラエルとユダはその神萬軍のヱホバに棄てられず彼らの地にはイスラエルの至聖者にむかひて犯せるところの罪充つ
6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon And deliver ye every man his own life, Be not cut off in her punishment, —For it is Yahweh’s, time of avenging, A recompense, is he repaying unto her.
汝らバビロンのうちより逃げいでておのおの其生命をすくへ其の罪のために滅さるる勿れ今はヱホバの仇をかへしたまふ時なれば報をそれになしたまふなり
7 A cup of gold, was Babylon in the hand of Yahweh, Making drunk all the earth, —Of her wine, have the nations drunk, For this cause have the nations been acting as men who are mad.
バビロンは金の杯にしてヱホバの手にあり諸の地を醉せたり國々その酒を飮めり是をもて國々狂へり
8 Suddenly, hath Babylon fallen and been broken, —Howl ye over her Fetch balsam for her pain, Peradventure she shall be healed!
バビロンは忽ち踣れて壞る之がために哭けその傷のために乳香をとれ是或は愈ん
9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed, Leave her and let us go every one to his own land, —For her judgment, reacheth unto the heavens, And mounteth as far as the skies.
われらバビロンを醫さんとすれども愈ず我らこれをすてて各その國に歸るべしそはその罰天におよび雲にいたればなり
10 Yahweh hath brought forth our righteousnesses, —Come and let us relate in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.
ヱホバわれらの義をあらはしたまふ來れシオンに於て我らの神ヱホバの作爲をのべん
11 Polish the arrows, Lay hold of the shields, —Yahweh hath roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, For against Babylon, his purpose is, to destroy her, —For it is, The avenging of Yahweh, The avenging of his temple.
矢を磨ぎ楯を取れヱホバ、メデア人の王等の心を激發したまふヱホバ、バビロンをせめんと謀り之を滅さんとしたまふ是ヱホバの復仇その殿の復仇たるなり
12 Against the walls of Babylon, Lift ye up a standard, Strengthen ye the watch, Station the watchmen, Make ready the ambuscades, —For Yahweh hath both planned and also performed that which he had spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon.
バビロンの石垣に向ひて纛を樹て圍を堅くし番兵を設け伏兵をそなへよ蓋ヱホバ、バビロンに住める者をせめんとて謀りその言しごとく行ひたまへばなり
13 O thou who dwellest upon many waters, Who aboundest in treasures, —Come hath thine end! The measure of thine unrighteous gain!
おほくの水の傍に住み多くの財寶をもてる者よ汝の終汝の貧婪の限來れり
14 Yahweh of hosts hath sworn, by his own soul: Surely I have filled thee with men as with locusts, And they have answered against thee with a shout.
萬軍のヱホバおのれを指して誓ひいひ給ふ我まことに人を蝗のごとくに汝の中に充さん彼ら汝に向ひて鯨波の聲を揚ぐべし
15 He that Made the earth in his might, Established the world in his wisdom, —And in his understanding, stretched out the heavens
ヱホバその能力をもて地をつくり其知慧をもて世界を建てその明哲をもて天を舒たまへり
16 By the voice that he uttered, there was a tumult of waters in the heavens, And he caused vapours to ascend from the end of the earth, —Lightnings for the rain, made he, And brought forth wind out of his treasures.
彼聲を發したまふ時は天に衆の水いづかれ雲を地の極より起らしめ電光と雨をおこし風をその庫よりいだしたまふ
17 Every son of earth had become too brutish to know, —Every goldsmith, hath been put to shame, by a graven image, —For a falsehood, is his molten image Seeing there is no breath in them:
すべての人は獸のごとくにして智慧なし諸の鑄物師はその作りし像のために辱を取る其鑄るところの像は僞の者にしてその中に靈なし
18 Vanity, they are, A handiwork of mockeries, —In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.
其等は空しき者にして迷妄の工作なりわが臨むとき其等は滅べし
19 Not like these, is the portion of Jacob, For the fashioner of all things, is he! And the portion of his inheritance, —Yahweh of hosts, is his name.
ヤコブの分は此の如くならず彼は萬物およびその產業の族の造化主なりその名は萬軍のヱホバといふ
20 A war-club, art thou for me, Weapons of war; Therefore will I Beat down with thee—nations, and Destroy with thee—kingdoms;
汝はわが鎚にして戰の器具なりわれ汝をもて諸の邦を碎き汝をもて萬國を滅さん
21 and Beat down with thee—the horse and his rider, —and Beat down with thee—the chariot and its rider;
われ汝をもて馬とその騎る者を摧き汝をもて車とその御する者を碎かん
22 and Beat down with thee—man and woman, and Beat down with thee—elder and youth, and Beat down with thee—young man and virgin;
われ汝をもて男と女をくだき汝をもて老たる者と幼き者をくだき汝をもて壯者と童女をくだくべし
23 and Beat down with thee—the shepherd and his flock, and Beat down with thee—the plowman and his yoke; —and Beat down with thee—governors and deputies:
われ汝をもて牧者とその群をくだき汝をもて農夫とその軛を負ふ牛をくだき汝をもて方伯等と督宰等をくだかん
24 So will I recompense to Babylon, And to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, All their wickedness which they have committed against Zion before your eyes, —Declareth Yahweh.
汝らの目の前にて我バビロンとカルデヤに住るすべての者がシオンになせし諸の惡きことに報いんとヱホバいひたまふ
25 Behold me! against thee, O destroying mountain Declareth Yahweh, That destroyest all the earth, —Therefore will I stretch out my hand over thee, And roll thee down from the crags, And make of thee a burning mountain:
ヱホバ言ひたまはく全地を滅したる滅す山よ視よわれ汝の敵となるわれ手を汝の上に伸て汝を巖より轉ばし汝を焚山となすべし
26 So shall they not fetch from thee A stone for a corner nor A stone for a foundation, —For desolations age-abiding, shalt thou become Declareth Yahweh.
ヱホバいひたまふ人汝より石を取て隅石となすことあらじ亦汝より石を取りて基礎となすことあらじ汝はいつまでも荒地となりをらん
27 Set ye up an ensign in the earth Blow ye a horn among the nations Hallow against her—nations, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat Minni, and Ashkenaz, —Set in charge against her a marshal, Bring up cavalry like hairy locusts:
纛を地に樹て箛を國々の中に吹き國々の民をあつめて之を攻めアララテ、ミンニ、アシケナズの諸國を招きて之を攻め軍長をたてて之を攻め恐しき蝗のごとくに馬をすすめよ
28 Hallow against her—nations, With the kings of Media, With her governors and all her deputies, —And with all the land of his dominion:
國々の民をあつめて之を攻めメデア人の王等とその方伯等とその督宰等およびそのすべての領地の人をあつめて之を攻めよ
29 Then did the land tremble and was in pain, —For the plans of Yahweh, had been established against Babylon, To make the land of Babylon an astonishment, without inhabitant.
地は震ひ搖かんそはヱホバその意旨をバビロンになしバビロンの地をして住む人なき荒地とならしめたまふべければなり
30 The heroes of Babylon have ceased to fight They have remained in the strongholds, Parched is their might, They have become women, —They have set fire to her habitations, Broken are her bars!
バビロンの勇者は戰をやめて其城にこもりその力失せて婦のごとくにならん其宅は燒けその門閂は折れん
31 Runner to meet runner, shall they run, And teller to meet teller, -To tell the king of Babylon, That captured is his city at the end!
馹は趨て馹にあひ使者は趨て使者にあひバビロンの王につげて邑は盡く取られ
32 and The fords, have been seized, and The reeds, have they burned with fire; and The men of war, are dismayed!
渡口は取られ沼は燒れ兵卒は怖るといはん
33 For, thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon, is like a threshing, floor at the time of treading her: Yet a little, and the time of harvest shall overtake her.
萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神かくいひたまふバビロンの女は禾場のごとしその踏るる時きたれり暫くありてその苅るる時いたらん
34 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon—Hath devoured me Hath vexed me, Hath set me down as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed me like a sea-monster, He hath filled his belly with my dainties, —He hath driven me away!
バビロンの王ネブカデネザル我を食ひ我を滅し我を空き器のごとくなし龍の如くに我を呑みわが珍饈をもて其腹を充し我を逐出せり
35 The violence done to me and to my flesh, be upon Babylon! Shall the inhabitress of Zion say, —Yea, my blood, be upon the inhabitant of Chaldea! Shall Jerusalem say.
シオンに住る者いはんわがうけし虐遇と我肉はバビロンにかかるべしヱルサレムいはん我血はカルデヤに住める者にかかるべしと
36 Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! pleading thy cause, So then I will execute the avenging of thee; And will dry up her sea, And make dry her spring:
さればヱホバかくいひたまふ視よわれ汝の訟を理し汝の爲に仇を復さん我その海を涸かし其泉を乾かすべし
37 Thus shall Babylon become—Heaps A habitation of jackals An astonishment, and A hissing, Without inhabitant.
バビロンは頽壘となり山犬の巢窟となり詫異となり嗤笑となり人なき所とならん
38 Together, like wild lions, shall they roar, —They have growled like lions’ whelps.
彼らは獅子のごとく共に吼え小獅のごとくに吼ゆ
39 When they are heated, I will spread their banquets, And let them drink that they may become uproarious, So shall they sleep an age-abiding sleep and not wake, —Declareth Yahweh.
彼らの慾の燃る時にわれ筵を設けてかれらを醉せ彼らをして喜ばしめながき寢にいりて目を醒すことなからしめんとヱホバいひたまふ
40 I will bring them down As fat lambs to slaughter, —As rams with he-goats.
われ屠る羔羊のごとく又牡羊と牡山羊のごとくにかれらをくだらしめん
41 How hath Sheshach, been captured! How hath the praise of all the earth been seized! How hath Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
セシヤクいかにして取られしや全地の人の頌美者いかにして執へられしや國々の中にバビロンいかにして詫異となりしや
42 The sea, hath gone up over Babylon, —With the multitude of its rolling waves, is she covered.
海バビロンに溢れかかりその多くの波濤これを覆ふ
43 Her cities have become, an astonishment, A land parched up, and a waste plain, —A land wherein shall no man dwell, Nor pass through them a son of the earth-born!
その諸邑は荒れて燥ける地となり沙漠となり住む人なき地とならん人の子そこを過ることあらじ
44 So will I bring punishment upon Bel in Babylon, And will bring forth what he hath swallowed out of his mouth, And the nations shall stream unto him no more, —Even the wall of Babylon hath fallen!
われベルをバビロンに罰しその呑みたる者を口より取出さん國々はまた川の如くに彼に來らじバビロンの石垣踣れん
45 Come ye forth out of her midst O my people, And deliver ye every man his own life, —Because of the glow of the anger of Yahweh.
我民よ汝らその中よりいで各ヱホバの烈しき怒をまぬかれてその命を救へ
46 And let not your heart be timid, nor be ye afraid, Because of the report that is reported in the earth When there shall come in one year, the report And after that in another year, the report, With violence in the earth, and ruler upon ruler.
汝ら心を弱くする勿れ此地にてきく所の浮言によりて畏るる勿れ浮言は此年も來り次の年も亦きたらん此地に强暴あり宰者と宰者とあひ攻むることあらん
47 Therefore, lo! days coming when I will bring punishment upon the images of Babylon, And all her land, shall turn pale, —Yea, all her wounded, shall fall in her midst.
故に視よ我バビロンの偶像を罰する日來らんその全地は辱められ其殺さるる者は悉くその中に踣れん
48 Then shall shout over Babylon—heavens and earth and all who are therein, —For out of the North, shall come to her the spoilers Declareth Yahweh.
然して天と地とその中にあるところのすべての者はバビロンの事の爲に歡び歌はんそは敗壞者北の方より此處に來ればなりヱホバこれをいひたまふ
49 Not only hath Babylon, caused the fall of the slain of Israel, —By Babylon, also have fallen the slain of all the earth.
バビロンがイスラエルの殺さるる者を踣せし如く全地の殺さるる者バビロンに踣るべし
50 Ye that have escaped the sword, depart do not stand still, —Remember, from afar Yahweh, Let, Jerusalem, come up on your heart: -
劍を逃るる者よ往け止る勿れ遠方よりヱホバを憶えヱルサレムを汝らの心に置くべし
51 We have turned pale for we have heard a reproach, Confusion, hath covered our faces, —For aliens have entered upon the hallowed places of the house of Yahweh!
罵言をきくによりて我ら羞づ異邦人ヱホバの室の聖處にいるによりて我らの面には羞恥盈つ
52 Therefore, lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, When I will bring punishment upon her images; And throughout all her land, shall the pierced one groan.
この故にヱホバいひたまふ視よわがその偶像を罰する日いたらん傷けられたる者はその全國に呻吟べし
53 Though Babylon should mount the heavens, And though she should fortify her strong high-place, From me, should come spoilers unto her Declareth Yahweh.
たとひバビロン天に昇るとも其城を高くして堅むるとも敗壞者我よりいでて彼らにいたらんとヱホバいひたまふ
54 A voice of outcry from Babylon! And a great crash from the land of the Chaldeans!
バビロンに號咷の聲ありカルデヤ人の地に大なる敗壞あり
55 For, Yahweh, is spoiling Babylon, And will destroy out of her the loud voice, —Though their waves have roared like many waters, Been uttered the loud boast of their voice.
ヱホバ、バビロンをほろぼし其中に大なる聲を絕したまふ其波濤は巨水のごとくに鳴りその聲は響わたる
56 For there hath come upon her—upon Babylon—a spoiler, And captured are their heroes And broken are their bows, —For, a GOD of recompenses, is Yahweh, He will surely repay.
破滅者これに臨みバビロンにいたる其勇士は執へられ其弓は折らるヱホバは施報をなす神なればかならず報いたまふなり
57 Then will I make drunk—Her princes and her wise men, Her governors, and her deputies and her heroes, And they shall sleep an age-abiding sleep, and not wake, —Declareth the King, Yahweh of hosts, is his name.
われその牧伯等と博士等と督宰等と勇士とを醉せん彼らは永き寢にいりて目を醒すことあらじ萬軍のヱホバと名くる王これをいひ給ふ
58 Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts—The broad walls of Babylon, shall be laid utterly bare, And, her lofty gates, with fire, shall be burned, —And peoples shall labour for emptiness, And populations, for the fire, shall weary themselves.
萬軍のヱホバかくいひたまふバビロンの闊き石垣は悉く毀たれその高き門は火に焚れん斯民の勞苦は徒となるべし民は火のために憊れん
59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah into Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign, —now Seraiah, was travelling-marshal.
これマアセヤの子なるネリヤの子セラヤがユダの王ゼデキヤとともに其治世の四年にバビロンに往くときにあたりて豫言者ヱレミヤがこれに命ぜし言なりこのセラヤは侍從の長なり
60 So Jeremiah wrote all the calamity which was to come unto Babylon in one scroll; even all these words which have been written against Babylon.
ヱレミヤ、バビロンにのぞまんとする諸の災を書にしるせり是即ちバビロンの事につきて錄せる此すべての言なり
61 Then said Jeremiah unto Seraiah, —When thou comest into Babylon, then shalt thou look out and read all these words;
ヱレミヤ、セラヤにいひけるは汝バビロンに往しとき愼みてこの諸の言を讀め
62 and thou shalt say—O Yahweh! thou, thyself, hast spoken against this place to cut it off, That there be in it no inhabitant Neither man nor beast, —But desolations age-abiding, shall it become!
而して汝いふべしヱホバよ汝はこの處を滅し人と畜をいはず凡て此處に住む者なからしめて窮なくこれを荒地となさんと此處にむかひていひたまへり
63 And it shall be when thou hast made an end of reading this scroll, that thou shalt bind thereunto a stone, and cast it in the midst of the Euphrates,
汝この書を讀畢りしとき之に石をむすびつけてユフラテの中に投いれよ
64 Then shalt thou say, —In like manner, shall Babylon sink and not rise Because of the calamity which I am about to bring thereupon: So shall they perish. Thus far, are, the words of Jeremiah.
而していふべしバビロンは我これに災菑をくだすによりて是しづみて復おこらざるべし彼らは絕はてんと／此まではヱレミヤの言なり
