Judges 7
1 Then Jerubbaal, the same, is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and encamped by the fountain of Harod, —and, the camp of Midian, was on the north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the vale.
斯てヱルバアルと呼るるギデオンおよび之とともにあるすべての民朝夙に興きいでてハロデの井のほとりに陣を取るミデアン人の陣はかれらの北の方にあたりモレの山に沿ひ谷のうちにありき
2 And Yahweh said unto Gideon, Too many, are the people that are with thee, for me to deliver the Midianites into their hand, —lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand, hath saved me.
ヱホバ、ギデオンにいひたまひけるは汝とともに在る民は餘りに多ければ我その手にミデアン人を付さじおそらくはイスラエル我に向ひ自ら誇りていはん我わが手をもて己を救へりと
3 Now, therefore, proclaim, I pray thee, in the ears of the people, saying, Whoso feareth and trembleth—let him turn and go back from Mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty-two thousand, and, ten thousand, remained.
されば民の耳に告示していふべし誰にても懼れ慄くものはギレアデ山より歸り去るべしとここにおいて民のかへりしもの二萬二千人あり殘しものは一萬人なりき
4 Then said Yahweh unto Gideon—Yet, are the people too many, take them down unto the waters, that I may prove them for thee, there, —and it shall be, that, he of whom I say unto thee, This one, shall go with thee, the same, shall go with thee, and, every one of whom I say unto thee, This one, shall not go with thee, the same, shall not go.
ヱホバまたギデオンにいひたまひけるは民なほ多し之を導きて水際に下れ我かしこにて汝のために彼らを試みんおほよそ我が汝に告て此人は汝とともに行くべしといはんものはすなはち汝とともに行くべしまたおほよそ我汝に告て此人は汝とともに行くべからずといはんものはすなはち行くべからざるなり
5 So he took down the people unto the waters, —and Yahweh said unto Gideon—Every one that lappeth with his tongue of the water, as a dog lappeth, thou shalt set him by himself, likewise, every one that boweth down upon his knees, to drink.
ギデオン民をみちびきて水際に下りしにヱホバ之にいひたまひけるはおほよそ犬の餂るがごとくその舌をもて水を餂るものは汝之を別けおくべしまたおほよそ其の膝を折り屈みて水を飮むものをも然すべしと
6 And so it was, that, the number of them that lapped with their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men, —but, all the rest of the people, bowed down on their knees, to drink water.
手を口にあてて水を餂しものの數は三百人なり餘の民は盡くその膝を折り屈みて水を飮り
7 Then said Yahweh unto Gideon—By the three hundred men that lapped, will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand; and let, all [the rest of] the people, go every man to his own place.
ヱホバ、ギデオンにいひたまひけるは我水を餂たる三百人の者をもて汝らを救ひミデアン人を汝の手に付さん餘の民はおのおの其所に歸るべしと
8 So the people took provisions in their hand, and their horns, but, every man of Israel besides, sent he away every man to his home, whereas, the three hundred men, he retained. Now, the camp of Midian, was beneath him in the vale.
ここにおいて彼ら民の兵粮とその箛を手にうけとれりギデオンすなはちすべてのイスラエル人を各自その天幕に歸らせ彼の三百人を留めおけり時にミデアン人の陣はその下の谷のなかにありき
9 And it came to pass, on that night, that Yahweh said unto him, Arise! go down against the camp, —for I have delivered it into thy hand.
その夜ヱホバ、ギデオンにいひたまはく起よ下りて敵陣に入るべし我之を汝の手に付すなり
10 Or, if, thou, art afraid to go down, go down—thou and Purah thy young man, unto the camp;
されど汝もし下ることを怖れなば汝の僕フラを伴ひ陣所に下りて
11 so shalt thou hear what they shall say, —and, afterward, shall thy hands grow strong, and thou shalt go down against the camp. Then went he down, he and Purah his young man, unto the outmost part of the armed men that were in the camp.
彼らのいふ所を聞べし然せば汝の手強くなりて汝敵陣にくだることを得んとギデオンすなはち僕フラとともに下りて陣中にある隊伍のほとりに至るに
12 Now, the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east, were lying along in the vale, like locusts for multitude, —their camels also, were without number, as the sand that is by the sea side, for multitude.
ミデアン人アマレク人およびすべて東方の民は蝗蟲のごとくに數衆く谷のうちに堰しをりその駱駝は濱の砂の多きがごとくにして數ふるに勝ず
13 And Gideon came in, and lo! a man relating to his neighbour a dream, —and he said—Lo! a dream, have I dreamt, and lo! a round cake of barley bread tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came as far as the tent—and smote it that it fell, and turned it upside down, and the tent lay along.
ギデオン其處に至りしに或人その伴侶に夢を語りて居りすなはちいふ我夢を見たりしが夢に大麥のパンひとつミデアンの陣中に轉びいりて天幕に至り之をうち仆し覆したれば天幕倒れ臥り
14 Then responded his neighbour and said: —Nothing else, is this, than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel, —God hath delivered into his hand, both Midian and all the host.
其の伴侶答へていふ是イスラエルの人ヨアシの子ギデオンの劍に外ならず神ミデアンとすべての陣營を之が手に付したまふなりと
15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the story of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he bowed himself down, —and returned unto the camp of Israel, and said—Arise! for Yahweh hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
ギデオン夢の説話とその解釋を聞しかば拜をなしてイスラエルの陣所にかへりいひけるは起よヱホバ汝らの手にミデアンの陣をわたしたまふと
16 And he divided the three hundred men, into three companies, —and put horns into the hands of them all, with empty pitchers, and torches inside the pitchers.
かくて三百人を三隊にわかち手に手に箛および空瓶を取せその瓶のなかに燈火をおかしめ
17 Then he said unto them, On me, shall ye look, and, in like manner, shall ye do, —and lo! when I am coming unto the outermost part of the camp, then shall it be, that, as I do, so, shall ye do.
これにいひけるは我を視てわが爲すところにならへ我が敵陣の邊に至らんときに爲すごとく汝らも爲すべし
18 When I shall blow with the horn, I and all who are with me, then shall, ye also, round about all the camp, blow with your horns, and shall say, For Yahweh and for Gideon!
我およびわれとともに在るものすべて箛を吹ば汝らもまたすべて陣營の四方にて箛を吹き此ヱホバのためなりギデオンのためなりといへと
19 So Gideon came, and the hundred men that were with him, unto the outermost part of the camp, at the beginning of the middle watch, they had but, newly set, the watchers, —and they blew with the horns, and brake in pieces the pitchers, that were in their hand.
而してギデオンおよび之とともなる百人中更の初に陣營の邊に至るにをりしも番兵を更代たるときなりければ箛を吹き手に携へたる瓶をうちくだけり
20 Yea the three companies blew with the horns, and shivered the pitchers, and caught hold—with their left hands—of the torches, while, in their right hands, were the horns, to blow with, —and they cried, A sword for Yahweh, and for Gideon!
即ち三隊の兵隊箛を吹き瓶をうちくだき左の手には燈火を執り右の手には箛をもちて之を吹きヱホバの劍ギデオンの劍なるぞと叫べり
21 And they stood still, every man in his place, round about the camp, —and all the host ran and shouted, and fled.
かくておのおのその持場に立ち陣營を取り圍みたれば敵軍みな走り叫びてにげゆけり
22 When the three hundred blew the horns, Yahweh set the sword of every man, against his neighbour, and against all the host, —and the host fled, as far as the Place of Acacias, towards Zererath, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
三百人のもの箛を吹くにあたりヱホバ敵軍をしてみなたがひに同士撃せしめたまひければ敵軍にげはしりてゼレラのベテシツダ、アベルメホラの境およびタバテに至る
23 And the men of Israel were called together, out of Naphtali and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, —and pursued Midian.
イスラエルの人々すなはちナフタリ、アセルおよびマナセ中より集ひ來りてミデアン人を追撃り
24 And, messengers, did Gideon send through all the hill country of Ephraim, saying—Go down to meet Midian, and capture, before them, the waters, as far as Beth-barah, and the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and captured the waters, as far as Beth-barah, and the Jordan.
ギデオン使者をあまねくエフライムの山に遣していはせけるは下りてミデアン人を攻めベタバラにいたる渡口およびヨルダンを遮斷るべしと是においてエフライムの人盡く集ひ來りてベタバラにいたる渡口およびヨルダンを取り
25 And they captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and slew Oreb at Oreb’s Rock, and, Zeeb, they slew at Zeeb’s Winepress, and pursued Midian, —and, the heads of Oreb and Zeeb, brought they in unto Gideon at the ford of the Jordan.
ミデアン人の君主オレブとゼエブの二人を俘へてオレブをばオレブ砦の上に殺しゼエブをばゼエブの酒搾のほとりに殺しまたミデアン人を追撃ちオレブとゼエブの首を携へてヨルダンの彼方よりギデオンの許にいたる
