Jeremiah 46
1 These are messages that Yahweh gave to the prophet Jeremiah about [other] nations.
もろもろの国の事について預言者エレミヤに臨んだ主の言葉。
2 After Jehoiakim, son of King Josiah, had been ruling Judah for almost four years, this message about Egypt was given [by Yahweh]. It was when the army of King Neco of Egypt was defeated by the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon along the Euphrates River. [This is what Yahweh said: “The officers of the army of Egypt are saying to their troops],
エジプトの事、すなわちユフラテ川のほとりにあるカルケミシの近くにいるエジプトの王パロ・ネコの軍勢の事について。これはユダの王ヨシヤの子エホヤキムの四年に、バビロンの王ネブカデレザルが撃ち破ったものである。その言葉は次のとおりである、
3 ‘Prepare your shields and march out to fight the battle!
「大盾と小盾とを備え、進んで戦え。
4 Put harnesses on your horses, and get on their backs. (Get into your positions/Line up) [for the battle]; put on your helmets. Sharpen your spears, and put on your armor!’
騎兵よ、馬を戦車につなぎ、馬に乗れ。かぶとをかぶって立て。ほこをみがき、よろいを着よ。
5 But what [RHQ] do I see? I see that the soldiers of Egypt will be terrified and will be fleeing. [Even] the bravest of their soldiers will be running away, without [even] looking backward! [I, ] Yahweh, say that [their soldiers] will be terrified on all sides!
わたしは見たが、何ゆえか彼らは恐れて退き、その勇士たちは打ち敗られ、あわてて逃げて、うしろをふり向くこともしない、恐れが彼らの周囲にあると主は言われる。
6 [Even] the fastest [runners] will try to run away, but [even the greatest of] their warriors will not escape. In the north, by the Euphrates [River], they will stumble and fall.
足早き者も逃げることができず、勇士ものがれることができない。北の方、ユフラテ川のほとりで彼らはつまずき倒れた。
7 What group is this that will be covering the land like the water of the Nile [River] covers the land when it floods?
あのナイル川のようにわきあがり、川々のように、その水のさかまく者はだれか。
8 [It is the army of] Egypt that will be covering the land like a surging/huge flood, and they will boast that they will cover the earth and will destroy cities and the people [who live in them].
エジプトはナイル川のようにわきあがり、その水は川々のようにさかまく。そしてこれは言う、わたしは上って、地をおおい、町々とそのうちに住む者を滅ぼそう。
9 You [riders of] horses, charge/rush [into the battle]! You [drivers of] chariots, drive furiously! [All] you warriors from Ethiopia and Libya who carry your shields, you warriors from Lydia who shoot arrows, you come!
馬よ、進め、車よ、激しく走れ。勇士よ、盾を取るエチオピヤびとと、プテびとよ、弓を巧みに引くルデびとよ、進み出よ。
10 But, [you need to know that] this is the day when [I], Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels, will get revenge on my enemies. With my sword [PRS] I will kill [my enemies] until I am satisfied; my sword will [be like a monster that] [MET, PRS] drinks the blood [of the animals it kills] until it is no longer thirsty. [The enemy soldiers who will be killed] in the north beside the Euphrates River [will be like] [MET] a sacrifice to [me], the Commander of the armies of angels.
その日は万軍の神、主の日であって、主があだを報いられる日、その敵にあだをかえされる日だ。つるぎは食べて飽き、彼らの血に酔う。万軍の神、主が、北の地で、ユフラテ川のほとりで、ほふることをなされるからだ。
11 You people [IDM] of Egypt, go up to the Gilead [region] to obtain medicine; but it will be useless to take all those medicines; you will not be healed.
おとめなるエジプトの娘よ、ギレアデに上って乳香を取れ。あなたは多くの薬を用いても、むだだ。あなたは、いやされることはない。
12 [People in] the [other] nations will hear how you were humiliated. [People] all over the earth will hear you wailing. [Your mighty] warriors will stumble over each other and they will all fall down together.”
あなたの恥は国々に聞えている、あなたの叫びは地に満ちている。勇士が勇士につまずいて、共に倒れたからである」。
13 [Then] Yahweh gave me this message about King Nebuchadnezzar when he planned to attack Egypt [with his army]:
バビロンの王ネブカデレザルが来て、エジプトの地を撃とうとする事について、主が預言者エレミヤにお告げになった言葉、
14 “Shout [this message] throughout Egypt! Proclaim it in Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpenes [cities]! ‘(Get into your positions/Line up) [for the battle]; Prepare to defend yourselves, because [everyone] around you will be killed.’ [PRS, MTY]
「エジプトで宣べ、ミグドルで告げ示し、またメンピスとタパネスに告げ示して言え、『堅く立って、備えせよ、つるぎがあなたの周囲を、滅ぼし尽すからだ』。
15 Your god is a bull; Why does he fall down? He will not be able to stand up, because Yahweh will knock him down.
なぜ、アピスはのがれたのか。あなたの雄牛は、なぜ立たなかったのか。それは主がこれを倒されたからだ。
16 The soldiers from other countries will stumble and fall over each other, and [then] they will say to each other, ‘Let’s get up and go back to our own people, to our own land. Let’s get away from the swords of our enemies!’
あなたに属する多くの兵は、つまずいて倒れた。そして互に言った、『立てよ、われわれは、しえたげる者のつるぎを避けて、われわれの民に帰り、故郷の地へ行こう』と。
17 There [in Egypt] they will say, ‘The king of Egypt talks loudly, but when our [army] had an opportunity [to defeat our enemies], they failed.’
エジプトの王パロの名を、『好機を逸する騒がしい者』と呼べ。
18 [I, ] the King, who am called the Commander of the armies of angels, say this: ‘As [surely as] I live, someone’s army will be coming [to fight against the army of Egypt]. They will be [extremely powerful], [as though they were as tall] as Tabor Hill, or [as high] as Carmel [Mountain] close to the [Mediterranean] Sea.
万軍の主という名の王は言われる、わたしは生きている、彼は山々のうちのタボルのように、海のほとりのカルメルのように来り臨む。
19 [All] you people who live in Egypt, pack your possessions/clothes and prepare to be exiled. Memphis [city] will be destroyed; it will become a ruin, and no one will be living there.
エジプトに住む民よ、捕われのために荷物を備えよ。メンピスは荒れ地となり、廃虚となって住む人もなくなる。
20 Egypt is [like] [SIM] a beautiful young cow, but [the army of a powerful king] from the northeast will come to attack it [like] a horsefly [MET] [bites a cow].
エジプトは美しい雌の子牛だ、しかし北から、牛ばえが来て、それにとまった。
21 The (mercenaries/soldiers [from other countries] who have been hired) will become like [SIM] fat calves; but they also will turn around and run away; they will not stand [there and fight], because it will be a day when there will be a [great] disaster in Egypt, a day when their people will be [greatly] punished.
そのうちにいる雇兵でさえ、肥えた子牛のようだ。彼らはふり返って共に逃げ、立つことをしなかった。彼らの災難の日、その罰せられる時が来たからだ。
22 [The soldiers of] Egypt will run away, as silently as a snake scurries/crawls away. [The army of] the enemy will advance; they will march along carrying their axes like [SIM] men who cut down trees.
彼は逃げ去るへびのような音をたてる。その敵が軍勢を率いて彼に臨み、きこりのように、おのをもって来るからだ。
23 [I, ] Yahweh, say that they will kill the soldiers [of Egypt] as though [SIM] they were a forest of trees, because the enemy soldiers will be as numerous as [a swarm of] locusts.
彼らは彼の林がいかに入り込みがたくとも、それを切り倒す。彼らはいなごよりも多く、数えがたいからであると、主は言われる。
24 The people of Egypt will be humiliated; they will be conquered by people from the northeast.’
エジプトの娘ははずかしめを受け、北からくる民の手に渡される」。
25 [I, ] the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom the Israelis [worship], say, ‘I will punish Amon, [the god whom the people] of Thebes [city] worship, and [all] the [other] gods in Egypt. [I will punish] the King of Egypt and [all] those who trust in him.
万軍の主、イスラエルの神は言われた、「見よ、わたしはテーベのアモンと、パロと、エジプトとその神々とその王たち、すなわちパロと彼を頼む者とを罰する。
26 I will cause them to be captured by those who want to kill them—Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon, and his army officers. But many years later, people will live in Egypt again. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it.’
わたしは彼らを、その命を求める者の手と、バビロンの王ネブカデレザルの手と、その家来たちの手に渡す。その後、エジプトは昔のように人の住む所となると、主は言われる。
27 But you people of Israel who serve me, do not be at all dismayed [DOU] now, because some day I will bring you back from distant places; I will bring your descendants from the land to which they were exiled. [Then you] Israeli people will again live peacefully and safely, and there will not be any [nation] to cause you to be terrified.
わたしのしもべヤコブよ、恐れることはない、イスラエルよ、驚くことはない。見よ、わたしがあなたを遠くから救い、あなたの子孫をその捕え移された地から救うからだ。ヤコブは帰ってきて、おだやかに、安らかになり、彼を恐れさせる者はない。
28 [I, ] Yahweh, say to you people of Israel who serve me, ‘Do not be afraid, because I will be with you. I will completely destroy the nations among whom I have scattered you, but I will not completely get rid of you. I will punish you, but I will punish you only as severely as you deserve: It would be wrong if I did not punish you at all.’”
主は言われる、わたしのしもべヤコブよ、恐れることはない、わたしが共にいるからだ。わたしはあなたを追いやった国々をことごとく滅ぼし尽す。しかしあなたを滅ぼし尽すことはしない。わたしは正しい道に従って、あなたを懲らしめる、決して罰しないではおかない」。
