Joel 1
1 This is the word of Yahweh that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
ペトエルの子ヨエルに臨めるヱホバの言
2 Hear this, you elders, and listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?
老たる人よ汝ら是を聽け すべて此地に住む者汝ら耳を傾けよ 汝らの世あるは汝らの先祖の世にも是のごとき事ありしや
3 Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children the next generation.
汝ら之を子に語り子はまた之をその子に語りその子之を後の代に語りつたへよ
4 What the swarming locust has left the great locust has eaten; what the great locust has left the grasshopper has eaten; and what the grasshopper has left the caterpillar has eaten.
噬くらふ蝗虫の遺せる者は群ゐる蝗虫のくらふ所となりその遺せる者はなめつくすおほねむしのくらふ所となりその遺せる者は喫ほろぼす蝗虫の食ふ所となれり
5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because the sweet wine has been cut off from you.
醉る者よ汝ら目を醒して泣け すべて酒をのむ者よ哭きさけべ あたらしき酒なんぢらの口に絶えたればなり
6 For a nation has come up upon my land, strong and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the teeth of a lioness.
そはことなる民わが國に攻よすればなり その勢ひ強くその數はかられずその齒は獅子の齒のごとくその牙は牝獅子の牙のごとし
7 He has made my vineyard into a desolate place and has stripped my fig tree bare. He has stripped its bark and thrown it away; the branches are bare white.
彼等わが葡萄の樹を荒しわが無花果の樹を折りその皮をはぎはだかにして之を棄つ その枝白くなれり
8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the death of her young husband.
汝ら哀哭かなしめ 貞女その若かりしときの夫のゆゑに麻布を腰にまとひて哀哭かなしむがごとくせよ
9 The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's servants, mourn.
素祭灌祭ともにヱホバの家に絶えヱホバに事ふる祭司等哀傷をなす
10 The fields are ruined, the ground is mourning because the grain has been destroyed. The new wine has dried up, the oil fails.
田は荒れ地は哀傷む 是穀物荒はて新しき酒つき油たえんとすればなり
11 Be ashamed, you farmers, and wail, you vine growers, for the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the fields has perished.
こむぎ大麥の故をもて農夫羞ぢよ 葡萄をつくり哭けよ 田の禾稼うせはてたればなり
12 The vines have withered and the fig trees have dried up, the pomegranate trees, also the palm trees, and the apple trees— all the trees of the field have withered. For joy has withered away from the descendants of mankind.
葡萄樹は枯れ無花果樹は萎れ石榴 椰子 林檎および野の諸の樹は凋みたり 是をもて世の人の喜樂かれうせぬ
13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you servants of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you servants of my God. For the grain offering and the drink offering have been withheld from the house of your God.
祭司よ汝ら麻布を腰にまとひてなきかなしめ 祭壇に事ふる者よ汝らなきさけべ 神に事ふる者よなんぢら來り麻布をまとひて夜をすごせ 其は素祭も灌祭も汝らの神の家に入ことあらざればなり
14 Call for a holy fast, and call a holy assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Yahweh your God, and cry to Yahweh.
汝ら斷食を定め集會を設け長老等を集め國の居民をことごとく汝らの神ヱホバの家に集めヱホバにむかひて號呼れよ
15 Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is almost here. With it will come destruction from the Almighty.
ああその日は禍なるかな ヱホバの日近く暴風のごとくに全能者より來らん
16 Has not food been cut off from before our eyes, and joy and gladness from the house of our God?
我らがまのあたりに食物絶えしにあらずや 我らの神の家に歡喜と快樂絶えしにあらずや
17 The seeds rot under their clods, the granaries are desolate, and the barns have been broken down, for the grain has withered.
種は土の下に朽ち倉は壞れ廩は圯る そは穀物ほろぼされたればなり
18 How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are suffering because they have no pasture. Also, the flocks of sheep suffer.
いかに畜獸は哀み鳴くや 牛の群は亂れ迷ふ 草なければなり 羊の群もまた死喪ん
19 Yahweh, I cry to you. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flames have burned all the trees of the fields.
ヱホバよ我なんぢに向ひて呼はらん 荒野の諸の草は火にて焼け野の諸の樹は火熖にてやけつくればなり
20 Even the animals of the fields pant for you, for the water brooks have dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
野の獸もまた汝にむかひて呼はらん 其は水の流涸はて荒野の草火にてやけつくればなり
