Zephaniah 2
1 You people [of Judah] who ought to be ashamed, gather together [DOU].
汝等羞恥を知ぬ民早く自ら内に省みよ
2 Yahweh is extremely angry with you, [so gather together now], before it is time for him to punish [MTY] you and blow you away like [SIM] [the wind blows away] chaff.
夫日は糠粃の如く過ぎさる 然ば詔言のいまだ行はれざる先ヱホバの烈き怒のいまだ汝等に臨まざる先ヱホバの忿怒の日のいまだ汝等にきたらざるさきに自ら省みるべし
3 All you people in Judah who are humble, worship Yahweh, and obey what he has commanded. Try to do what is right and to be humble. [If you do that], perhaps Yahweh will protect/spare you on the day when he punishes [MTY] people.
すべてヱホバの律法を行ふ斯地の遜るものよ 汝等ヱホバを求め公義を求め謙遜を求めよ 然すれば汝等ヱホバの忿怒の日に或は匿さるることあらん
4 [When Yahweh punishes Philistia], Gaza and Ashkelon [cities] will be deserted/abandoned. Ashdod [city] will be attacked and the people expelled at noon [when people are resting]; the [people of Ekron city] will [also] be driven out.
夫ガザは棄られアシケロンは荒はてアシドドは白晝に逐はらはれエクロンは抜さらるべし
5 And terrible things will happen to you people of Philistia who live near the sea, because Yahweh has decided [MTY] that he will punish [MTY] you, [also]. He will get rid of all of you; not one person will (survive/remain alive).
海邊に住る者およびケレテの國民は禍なるかな ベリシテ人の國カナンよ ヱホバの言なんぢらを攻む 我なんぢを滅して住者なきに至らしむべし
6 The land [of Philistia] near the sea will become a pasture, a place for shepherds and their sheep pens.
海邊は必ず牧塲となり牧者の洞および羊の牢そこに在ん
7 The people of Judah who (survive/are still alive) will possess that land. At night they will sleep in the [deserted] houses in Ashkelon. Yahweh will take care of them; he will enable them to prosper again.
此地はユダの家の殘餘れる者に歸せん 彼ら其處にて草飼ひ暮に至ればアシケロンの家に臥ん そは彼らの神ヱホバかれらを顧みその俘囚を歸したまふべければなり
8 The Commander of the armies of angels, the God to whom [we] Israeli people [belong], says [this]: “I have heard the people of Moab and Ammon when they insulted [DOU] my people, and when they said that they would conquer my people’s country.
我すでにモアブの嘲弄とアンモンの子孫の罵言を聞けり 彼らはわが民を嘲り自ら誇りて之が境界を侵せしなり
9 So now, [as surely] as I live, [I will destroy] Moab and Ammon like [SIM] [I destroyed] Gomorrah [city]. Their land will be a place were there are nettles and salt pits; it will be ruined forever. My Israeli people who survive will take away all their valuable possessions and [also] occupy their land.”
是故に萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神 言たまふ 我は活く 必ずモアブはソドムのごとくになりアンモンの子孫はゴモラのごとくにならん 是は共に蕁麻の蔓延る處となり鹽坑の地となりて長久に荒はつべし 我民の遺れる者かれらを掠めわが國民の餘されたる者かれらを獲ん
10 The people of Moab and Ammon will get what they deserve for being proud, because they made fun of the people who belong to the Commander of the armies of angels.
この事の彼らに臨むはその傲慢による 即ち彼ら萬軍のヱホバの民を嘲りて自ら誇りたればなり
11 Yahweh will cause them to be terrified [when] he destroys all the gods of their countries. Then [even the people who live on] islands throughout the world will worship Yahweh, each in their own countries.
ヱホバは彼等に對ひては畏ろしくましまし地の諸の神や饑し滅したまふなり 諸の國の民おのおのその處より出てヱホバを拜まん
12 [Yahweh says that] he will also slaughter the people of Ethiopia.
エテオピア人よ汝等もまたわが劍にかかりて殺さる
13 Yahweh will punish [IDM] and destroy Assyria, [that land] northeast of us. He will cause [its capital] Nineveh to become ruined and deserted, a place that will be as dry as the desert.
ヱホバ北に手を伸てアッスリヤを滅したまはん 亦ニネベを荒して荒野のごとき旱地となしたまはん
14 [Flocks of sheep and] herds [of cattle] and many kinds of wild animals will lie down there. Owls and crows will sit on the columns/pillars [of the destroyed buildings], and they will (hoot/cry out) through the windows. There will be rubble in the doorways, and the [valuable] cedar boards will be taken [from the ruined houses].
而して畜の群もろもろの類の生物その中に伏し鸅鸕および刺猬其柱の頂に住み囀る者の聲 窓の内にきこえ荒落たる物 閾の上に積り香柏の板の細工 露顯になるべし
15 [The people of] Nineveh were [previously] happy and proud, thinking that they were very safe. They were [always] saying, “Our city is the greatest city; there is no city as great as ours!” But now it will become a ruins, a place where wild animals make their dens. And everyone who passes by there will hiss [and scorn/ridicule that city], and shake their fists [to show that they detest that city very much].
是邑は驕り傲ぶりて安泰に立をり 唯我あり 我の外には誰もなしと心の中に言つつありし者なるが斯も荒はてて畜獣の臥す處となる者かな 此を過る者はみな嘶きて手をふるはん
