Ezekiel 15

1 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

ヱホバの言われに臨みて言ふ

2 “Son of man, how is a vine better than any tree with branches that is among 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 Do people take wood from a vine to make anything? Or do they make a peg from it to hang anything on it?

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 See! If it is thrown into a fire as fuel, and if the fire has burned both of its ends and also the middle, is it good 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 See! When it was complete, it could not make anything; surely then, when the fire has burned, then it still will not make anything useful.

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 the Lord Yahweh says this: Unlike the trees in the forests, I have given the vine as fuel for fires; I will act in the same way toward the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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 For I will set my face against them. Though they come out from the fire, yet the fire will consume them; so you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.

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 Then I will make the land into an abandoned wasteland because they have committed sin—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.”

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