Ezekiel 15

1 Yahweh gave me another message. [He said],

ヱホバの言われに臨みて言ふ

2 “You human, the wood of a grapevine is certainly not [RHQ] more useful that the branches of the trees in a forest.

人の子よ葡萄の樹森の中にあるところの葡萄の枝なんぞ他の樹に勝るところあらんや

3 No one [RHQ] ever takes a branch of a grapevine and makes anything [useful] from it. No one [RHQ] even makes pegs from them to hang things on.

其木物をつくるに用ふべけんや又人これを用ひて器をかくる木釘を造らんや

4 And after a branch of a grapevine is thrown into a fire, and the fire burns both ends and chars/scorches the branch in the middle, will it then be useful for anything?

視よ是は火に投いれられて燃ゆ火もしその兩の端を燒くあり又その中間焦たらば爭でか物をつくるに勝べけんや

5 No; if it was not useful for anything before it was burned, it certainly cannot [made into something] useful after the fire has burned and charred it.

是はその全かる時すらも物を造るに用ふべからざれば况て火のこれを焚焦したる時には爭で物をつくるに用ふべけんや

6 Therefore, this is what [I], Yahweh the Lord, say: The wood of grapevines is useful only for fuel in a fire. Similarly, the people who live in [are useless].

是故に主ヱホバかく言たまふ我森の樹の中なる葡萄の樹を火になげいれて焚く如くにヱルサレムの民をも然するなり

7 I will reject [IDM] them. [It will be as though] they have escaped from a fire, but there will still be a fire that will burn them up. And when I punish [EUP] them, you [people who remain alive] will know that I, Yahweh, [have done it].

我面をかれらに向けて攻む彼らは火の中より出たれども火なほこれを燒つくすべし我面をかれらにむけて攻むる時に汝らは我のヱホバなるをしらん

8 I will cause your country to become a wasteland because your people have not been loyal [to me. That is what I], Yahweh, the Lord, say.”

彼等悖逆る事をおこなひしに由て我かの地を荒地となすべし主ヱホバこれを言ふ