Jeremiah 49
1 About the people of Ammon, Yahweh says this, “Does Israel have no children? Is there no one to inherit anything in Israel? Why does Molech occupy Gad, and his people live in its cities?
アンモンびとについて、主はこう言われる、「イスラエルには子がないのか、世継ぎがないのか。どうしてミルコムがガドを追い出して、その民がその町々に住んでいるのか。
2 So look, the days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will sound the signal for battle against Rabbah among the people of Ammon, so it will become a deserted heap and its villages will be set on fire. For Israel will possess those who possessed him,” says Yahweh.
主は言われる、それゆえ、見よ、アンモンびとのラバを攻める戦いの叫びを、わたしが聞えさせる日が来る。ラバは荒塚となり、その村々は火で焼かれる。そのときイスラエルは自分を追い出した者どもを追い出すと主は言われる。
3 “Howl in lament, Heshbon, for Ai will be devastated! Shout out, daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth. Lament and run about in futility, for Molech is going into captivity, together with his priests and leaders.
ヘシボンよ嘆け、アイは滅ぼされた。ラバの娘たちよ呼ばわれ。荒布を身にまとい、悲しんで、まがきのうちを走りまわれ。ミルコムとその祭司およびつかさが共に捕え移されるからだ。
4 Why do you brag about your valleys, your valleys that are so fruitful, faithless daughter? you who trust in your wealth and say, 'Who will come against me?'
不信の娘よ、あなたはなぜ自分の谷の事を誇るのか。あなたは自分の富に寄り頼んで、『だれがわたしに攻めてくるものか』と言う。
5 See, I am about to bring terror on you—this is the declaration of Lord Yahweh of hosts— this terror will come from all those who surround you. Each one of you will be scattered before it. There will be no one to gather those running away.
主なる万軍の神は言われる、見よ、わたしはあなたの上に恐れを臨ませる、それはあなたの周囲の者から来る。あなたは追われて、おのおの直ちに他人に続き、逃げる者を集める人もない。
6 But after this I will restore the fortunes of the people of Ammon—this is Yahweh's declaration.”
しかし、のちになって、わたしはアンモンびとを再び栄えさせると、主は言われる」。
7 About Edom, Yahweh of hosts says this, “Is there no longer any wisdom to be found in Teman? Has good advice disappeared from those who have understanding? Has their wisdom become corrupted?
エドムの事について、万軍の主はこう言われる、「テマンには、もはや知恵がないのか。さとい者には計りごとがなくなったのか。その知恵は消えうせたのか。
8 Flee! Turn back! Stay in holes in the ground, inhabitants of Dedan. For I am bringing the disaster of Esau on him at the time that I punish him.
デダンに住む者よ、逃げよ、のがれよ、深い所に隠れよ。わたしがエサウの災難を彼の上に臨ませ、彼を罰する時をこさせるからだ。
9 If grape harvesters came to you, would they not leave a little bit behind? If thieves came in the night, would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
ぶどうを集める者があなたの所に来たならば、すこしの実をも残さないであろうか。夜、盗びとが来たならば、自分たちの満足するだけ滅ぼさないであろうか。
10 But I have stripped Esau bare. I have revealed his hiding places. So he will not be able to hide himself. His children, his brothers, and his neighbors are destroyed, and he is gone.
しかしわたしはエサウを裸にし、その隠れる所を現したので、彼はその身を隠すことができない。その子どもたちも、兄弟も、隣り人も滅ぼされる。そして彼は、いなくなる。
11 Leave your orphans behind. I will take care of their lives, and your widows can trust in me.”
あなたのみなしごを残せ、わたしがそれを生きながらえさせる。あなたのやもめには、わたしに寄り頼ませよ」。
12 For Yahweh says this, “See, those who did not deserve it must certainly drink some of the cup. Do you yourself think you will go without punishment? You will not, for you will certainly drink.
主はこう言われる、「もし、杯を飲むべきでない者もそれを飲まなければならなかったとすれば、あなたは罰を免れることができようか。あなたは罰を免れない。それを飲まなければならない。
13 For I have sworn by myself—this is Yahweh's declaration—that Bozrah will become a horror, a disgrace, a devastation, and an object for cursing. All of its cities will become devastations forever.
主は言われる、わたしは自分をさして誓った、ボズラは驚きとなり、ののしりとなり、荒れ地となり、のろいとなる。その町々は長く荒れ地となる」。
14 I have heard news from Yahweh, and a messenger has been sent out to the nations, 'Gather together and attack her. Get ready for battle.'
わたしは主からのおとずれを聞いた。ひとりの使者がつかわされて万国に行き、そして言った、「あなたがたは集まり、行って彼を攻め、立って戦え。
15 “For see, I have made you small compared to the other nations, despised by people.
見よ、わたしはあなたを万国のうちに小さい者とし、人々のうちに卑しめられる者とする。
16 As for your fearsomeness, your heart's pride has deceived you, inhabitants of places on the cliff, you who have occupied the highest hills so that you may make your nest high like an eagle. I will bring you down from there—this is Yahweh's declaration.
岩の割れ目に住み、山の高みを占める者よ、あなたの恐ろしい事と、あなたの心の高ぶりが、あなたを欺いた。あなたは、わたしのように巣を高い所に作っているが、わたしはその所からあなたを取りおろすと主は言われる。
17 Edom will become a horror to everyone passing by it. Every such person will tremble and hiss because all of its disasters.
エドムは恐れとなる。そのかたわらを通り過ぎる者はみな恐れ、その災のために、舌打ちする。
18 Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors,” says Yahweh, “no one will live there; no person will stay there.
主は言われる、ソドムとゴモラとその隣の町々がくつがえされた時のように、そこに住む人はなく、そこに宿る人もなくなる。
19 See, he will go up like a lion from the forests of the Jordan to the green pasturelands. For I will quickly make Edom run from it, and I will put someone who will be chosen in charge of it. For who is like me, and who will summon me? What shepherd is able to resist me?”
見よ、ししがヨルダンの密林から上ってきて、じょうぶな羊のおりを襲うように、わたしは、たちまち彼らをそこから逃げ走らせ、わたしの選ぶ者をその上に立てる。だれかわたしのような者があるであろうか。だれがわたしを呼びつけることができようか。どの牧者がわたしの前に立つことができようか。
20 “So listen to the plans that Yahweh has decided against Edom, the plans that he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman. They will certainly be dragged away, even the smallest flock. Their pasturelands will be turned into ruined places.
それゆえ、エドムに対して主が立てた計りごとと、テマンに住む者に対してしようとする事を聞くがよい。彼らの群れのうちの小さいものまでも皆、引かれて行く。彼らのおりのものもその終りを見て恐れる。
21 At the sound of their falling the earth shakes. The sound of distressed shouts is heard at the Sea of Reeds.
その倒れる音を聞いて、地は震い、彼らの叫び声は紅海にも聞える。
22 See, someone will attack like an eagle, and swoop down and spread his wings over Bozrah. Then on that day, the hearts of Edom's soldiers will become like the heart of a woman in birth labor.”
見よ、敵はわしのように上り、すみやかに飛びかけり、その翼をボズラの上に張り広げる。その日エドムの勇士の心は子を産む女の心のようになる」。
23 About Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad will be ashamed, for they have heard news of disaster. They melt away! They become as troubled as the sea, which cannot stay calm.
ダマスコの事について、「ハマテとアルパデは、うろたえている、彼らは悪いおとずれを聞いたからだ。彼らは勇気を失い、穏やかになることのできない海のように悩む。
24 Damascus has become very weak. It turns away to flee; terror seizes it. Distress and pain seize it, like the pain of a woman giving birth.
ダマスコは弱り、身をめぐらして逃げた、恐怖に襲われている。子を産む女に臨むように痛みと悲しみと彼に臨む。
25 How has the city of praise not been forsaken, the town of my joy?
ああ、名ある町、楽しい町は捨てられる。
26 Therefore its young men will fall in its plazas, and all the fighting men will perish on that day—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.”
それゆえ、その日に、若い者は、広場に倒れ、兵士はことごとく滅ぼされると万軍の主は言われる。
27 “For I will light a fire on the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the strongholds of Ben Hadad.”
わたしはダマスコの城壁の上に火を燃やし、ベネハダデの宮殿を焼き尽す」。
28 About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, Yahweh says this to Nebuchadnezzar (now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon was going to attack these places): “Arise and attack Kedar and destroy those people of the east.
バビロンの王ネブカデレザルが攻め撃ったケダルとハゾルの諸国の事について、主はこう言われる、「立って、ケダルに向かって進み、東の人々を滅ぼせ。
29 Their tents and their flocks will be taken, along with their tent curtains and all of their equipment; their camels will be led away from them, and men will shout to them, “Terror is on every side!”
彼らの天幕と、その羊の群れとは取られ、その垂幕とそのもろもろの器と、らくだとは彼らの所から運び去られ、人々は彼らに向かって叫ぶ、『恐ろしいことが四方にある』と。
30 Flee! Wander far away! Stay in holes in the ground, inhabitants of Hazor—this is Yahweh's declaration— for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devised a plan against you. Flee! Turn back!
主は言われる、ハゾルに住む者よ、逃げよ、遠くさまよい行き、深い所に隠れよ。バビロンの王ネブカデレザルがあなたがたを攻める計りごとをめぐらし、あなたがたを攻める、てだてを設けたからだ。
31 Arise! Attack the nation at ease, that lives in safety,” says Yahweh. “They have no gates or bars in them, and its people live by themselves.
主は言われる、立って進み、安全な所に住むきらくな民を攻めよ、彼らは門もなく、貫の木もなく、ひとり離れて住む。
32 For their camels will become plunder, and the abundance of their property will become war plunder. Then I will scatter to every wind those who cut the corners of their hair, and I will bring disaster on them from every side—this is Yahweh's declaration.
彼らのらくだは、ぶんどり物となり、家畜の群れは奪われる。わたしは、かの髪の毛のすみずみを切る者を四方に散らし、その災難を八方からこさせると主は言われる。
33 Hazor will become a lair of jackals, a permanent wasteland. No one will live there; no human being will stay there.”
ハゾルは山犬のすまいとなり、いつまでも荒れ地となっている。だれもそこに住む人はなく、そこに宿る人もない」。
34 This is the word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam. This happened at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, and he said,
ユダの王ゼデキヤの治世の初めのころに、エラムの事について預言者エレミヤに臨んだ主の言葉。
35 “Yahweh of hosts says this: See, I am about to break the bowmen of Elam, the main part of their power.
万軍の主はこう言われる、「見よ、わたしはエラムが力として頼んでいる弓を折る。
36 For I will bring the four winds from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter the people of Elam to all of those winds. There is no nation to which those scattered from Elam will not go.
わたしは天の四方から、四方の風をエラムにこさせ、彼らを四方の風に散らす。エラムから追い出される者の行かない国はない。
37 So I will shatter Elam before their enemies and before those who seek their lives. for I will bring disaster against them, the fury of my wrath—this is Yahweh's declaration— and I will send the sword after them until I have annihilated them.
主は言われる、わたしはエラムをしてその敵の前、またその命を求める者の前に恐れさせる。わたしは災をくだし、激しい怒りをその上にくだす。彼らのうしろに、つるぎを送って滅ぼし尽す。
38 Then I will put my throne in Elam and will destroy its king and leaders from there—this is Yahweh's declaration—
そしてわたしの位をエラムにすえ、王とつかさたちとを滅ぼすと主は言われる。
39 and it will happen in later days that I will bring back the fortunes of Elam—this is Yahweh's declaration.”
しかし末の日に、わたしはエラムを再び栄えさせると、主は言われる」。
