Jeremiah 38
1 Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jehukal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malkijah heard the words that Jeremiah was declaring to all the people. He was saying,
マツタンの子シパテヤ、パシユルの子ゲダリヤ、シレミヤの子ユカル、マルキヤの子パシユル、ヱレミヤがすべての民に告たるその言を聞り
2 “Yahweh says this: Anyone staying in this city will be killed by sword, famine, and plague. But anyone who goes out to the Chaldeans will survive. He will escape with his own life, and live.
云くヱホバかくいひたまふこの邑に留まるものは劍と饑饉と疫病に死べし然どいでてカルデヤ人に降る者は生んすなはちその生命をおのれの掠取物となして生べし
3 Yahweh says this: This city will be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.”
ヱホバかくいひたまふこの邑は必ずバビロン王の軍勢の手に付されん彼之を取べしと
4 So the officials said to the king, “Let this man die, for in this way he is weakening the hands of the fighting men who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people. He is proclaiming these words, for this man is not working for safety for this people, but disaster.”
是をもてかの牧伯等王にいひけるは請ふこの人を殺したまへ彼はかくの如き言をのべて此邑に遺れる兵卒の手と民の手を弱くす夫人は民の安を求めずして其害を求むるなりと
5 So King Zedekiah said, “Look, he is in your hand since there is no king able to resist you.”
ゼデキヤ王いひけるは視よ彼は汝らの手にあり王は汝らに逆ふこと能はざるなりと
6 Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malkijah, son of the king. The cistern was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah down on ropes. There was no water in the cistern, but it was muddy, and he sank down into the mud.
彼らすなはちヱレミヤを取て獄の庭にあるハンメレクの子マルキヤの阱に投いる即ち索をもてヱレミヤを縋下せしがその阱は水なくして汚泥のみなりければヱレミヤは汚泥のなかに沈めり
7 Now Ebed-Melek the Cushite was one of the eunuchs in the king's house. He heard that they had placed Jeremiah in the cistern. Now the king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate.
王の室の寺人エテオピア人エベデメレク彼らがヱレミヤを阱になげいれしを聞り時に王ベニヤミンの門に坐しゐたれば
8 So Ebed-Melek went from the king's house and spoke with the king. He said,
エベデメレク王の室よりいでゆきて王にいひけるは
9 “My master the king, these men have done evil with the way they have treated Jeremiah the prophet. They threw him into a cistern for him to die in it from hunger, since there is no more food in the city.”
王わが君よかの人々が預言者ヱレミヤに行ひし事は皆好らず彼らこれを阱になげ入たり邑の中に食物なければ彼はその居るところに餓死せん
10 Then the king gave a command to Ebed-Melek the Cushite. He said, “Take command of thirty men from here and take Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”
王エテオピヤ人エベデメレクに命じていひけるは汝ここより三十人を携へゆきて預言者ヱレミヤをその死ざる先にを阱より曳あげよ
11 So Ebed-Melek took command of those men and went to the king's house, to a storeroom for clothing under the house. From there he took rags and worn-out clothing and then let them down by ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.
エベデメレクすなはちその人々を携へて王の室の庫の下にいり其處より破れたる舊き衣の布片をとり索をもてこれをを阱にをるヱレミヤの所に縋下せり
12 Ebed-Melek the Cushite said to Jeremiah, “Put the rags and worn-out clothing under your arms and on top of the ropes.” So Jeremiah did so.
而してエテオピア人エベデメレク、ヱレミヤに告て汝この破れたる舊き衣の布片を汝の腋の下にはさみて索に當よと云ければヱレミヤ然なせり
13 Then they pulled Jeremiah by the ropes. In this way they brought him up from the cistern. So Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard.
彼らすなはち索をもてヱレミヤを阱より曳あげたりヱレミヤは獄の庭にをる
14 Then King Zedekiah sent word and brought Jeremiah the prophet to himself, to the third entrance in Yahweh's house. The king said to Jeremiah, “I want to ask you something. Do not keep the answer from me.”
かくてゼデキヤ王人を遣はして預言者ヱレミヤをヱホバの室の第三の門につれきたらしめ王ヱレミヤにいひけるは我汝に問ことあり毫もわれに隱す勿れ
15 Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I answer you, will you not certainly kill me? But if I give you advice, you will not listen to me.”
ヱレミヤ、ゼデキヤにいひけるは我もし汝に示さば汝かならず我を殺さざらんや假令われ汝を勸むるとも汝われに聽じ
16 But King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah in private and said, “As Yahweh lives, the one who made us, I will not kill you or give you into the hand of those men who are seeking your life.”
ゼデキヤ王密にヱレミヤに誓ひていひけるは我らにこの靈魂を造りあたへしヱホバは活く我汝を殺さず汝の生命を索むる者の手に汝を付さじ
17 So Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Yahweh, God of hosts, God of Israel, says this: If you indeed go out to the officials of the king of Babylon then you will live, and this city will not be burned. You and your family will live.
ヱレミヤ、ゼデキヤにいひけるは萬軍の神イスラエルの神ヱホバかくいひたまふ汝もしまことにバビロン王の牧伯等に降らば汝の生命活んまた此邑は火にて焚れず汝と汝の家の者はいくべし
18 But if you do not go out to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans. They will burn it, and you will not escape from their hand.”
然ど汝もし出てバビロンの王の牧伯等に降らずば此邑はカルデヤ人の手に付されん彼らは火をもて之を焚ん汝はその手を脱れざるべし
19 King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “But I am afraid of the people of Judah who have deserted to the Chaldeans, because I might be given over into their hand, for them to treat me badly.”
ゼデキヤ王ヱレミヤに云けるは我カルデヤ人に降りしところのユダ人を恐る恐くはカルデヤ人我をかれらの手に付さん彼ら我を辱しめん
20 Jeremiah said, “They will not give you over to them. Obey the message from Yahweh that I am telling you, so that things will go well for you, and so that you will live.
ヱレミヤいひけるは彼らは汝を付さじ願くはわが汝に告しヱホバの聲に聽したがひたまへさらば汝祥をえん汝の生命いきん
21 But if you refuse to go out, this is what Yahweh has shown me.
然ど汝もし降ることを否まばヱホバこの言を我に示し給ふ
22 Look! All the women who are left in your house, king of Judah, will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon. These women will say to you, 'You have been deceived by your friends; they have ruined you. Your feet are now sunk into the mud, and your friends will run away.'
すなはちユダの王の室に遺れる婦は皆バビロンの王の牧伯等の所に曳いだされん其婦等いはん汝の朋友等は汝を誘ひて汝に勝り汝の足は泥に沈む彼らは退き去る
23 For all of your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself will not escape from their hand. You will be captured by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned.”
汝の妻たちと汝の子女等はカルデヤ人の所に曳出されん汝は其手を脱れじバビロンの王の手に執へられん汝此邑をして火に焚しめん
24 Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Do not inform anyone about these words, so that you do not die.
ゼデキヤ、ヱレミヤにいひけるは汝この事を人に知する勿れさらば汝殺されじ
25 If the officials hear that I have talked with you, and if they come and say to you, 'Tell us what you said to the king and do not hide it from us, or we will kill you,'
もし牧伯等わが汝と語りしことを我儕に告げよ我らに隱す勿れ然ば我ら汝を殺さじ又王の汝に語りしことを告よといはば
26 then you must say to them, 'I made a humble plea before the king that he would not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.'”
汝彼らに答へて我王に求めて我をヨナタンの家に歸して彼處に死しむること勿れといへりといふべし
27 Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him, so he answered them as the king had instructed him. So they stopped talking with him, because they had not heard the conversation between Jeremiah and the king.
かくて牧伯等ヱレミヤにきたりて問けるに彼王の命ぜし言のごとく彼らに告たればその事露はれざりき是をもて彼ら彼とものいふことを罷たり
28 So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.
ヱレミヤはヱルサレムの取るる日まで獄の庭に居りしがヱルサレムの取れし時にも彼處にをれり
