Nahum 2
1 The one who will dash you to pieces is coming up against you. Man the city walls, guard the roads, make yourselves strong, assemble your armies.
撃破者攻のぼりて汝の前に至る 汝城を守り路を窺ひ腰を強くし汝の力を大に強くせよ
2 For Yahweh is restoring the majesty of Jacob, like the majesty of Israel, although the plunderers devastated them and destroyed their vine branches.
ヱホバはヤコブの榮を舊に復してイスラエルの榮のごとくしたまふ 其は掠奪者これを掠めその葡萄蔓を壞ひたればなり
3 The shields of his mighty men are red, and the soldiers are clothed in scarlet; the chariots flash with their metal on the day that they are made ready, and the cypress spears are waved in the air.
その勇士は楯を紅にしその軍兵は紅に身を甲ふ 其行伍を立つる時には戰車の鐵 灼燦て火のごとし 鎗また閃めきふるふ
4 The chariots speed through the streets; they rush back and forth in the wide streets. They look like torches, and they run like lightning.
戰車街衢に狂ひ奔り大路に推あふ 其形状火炬のごとく其疾く馳すること電光の如し
5 The one who will dash you to pieces calls his officers; they stumble over each other in their march; they hurry to attack the city wall. The large shield is made ready to protect these attackers.
彼その將士を憶ひいだす 彼らはその途にて躓き仆れその石垣に奔ゆき大楯を備ふ
6 The gates at the rivers are forced open, and the palace falls to ruins.
河々の門啓け宮消うせん
7 Huzzab is stripped of her clothes and is taken away; her female servants moan like doves, beating on their breasts.
この事定まれり 彼は裸にせられて擄はれゆきその宮女胸を打て鴿のごとくに啼くべし
8 Nineveh is like a leaking pool of water, with its people fleeing away like rushing water. Others shout, “Stop, stop,” but no one looks back.
ニネベはその建し日より以來水の滿る池に似たりしがその民今は逃奔る 止れ止れと呼ども後を顧みる者なし
9 Take the silver plunder, take the gold plunder, for there is no end to it, to the splendor of all Nineveh's beautiful things.
白銀を奪へよ 黄金を奪へよ その寳物限なく諸の貴とき噐用夥多し
10 Nineveh is empty and ruined. Everyone's heart melts, everyone's knees strike together, and anguish is in everyone; their faces are all pale.
滅亡たり 空虚なれり 荒果たり 心は消え膝は慄ひ腰には凡て劇しき痛あり 面はみな色を失ふ
11 Where now is the lions' den, the place where the young lion cubs were fed, the place where the lion and lioness walked, with the cubs, where they were afraid of nothing?
獅子の穴は何處ぞや 少き獅子の物を食ふ處は何處ぞや 雄獅子雌獅子その小獅子とともに彼處に歩むに之を懼れしむる者なし
12 The lion tore his victims to pieces for his cubs; he strangled victims for his lionesses, and filled his cave with victims, his dens with torn carcasses.
雄獅子は小獅子のために物を噛ころし雌獅子の爲に物をくびり殺しその掠獲たる物をもて穴に充しその裂殺しし物をもて住所に滿す
13 “See, I am against you—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts. I will burn your chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from your land, and the voices of your messengers will be heard no more.”
萬軍のヱホバ言たまふ 視よ我なんぢに臨む 我なんぢの戰車を焚て煙となすべし 汝の少き獅子はみな劍の殺す所とならん 我また汝の獲物を地より絶べし 汝の使者の聲かさねて聞ゆること無らん
