列王記Ⅱ 20

1 當時ヒゼキヤ病て死なんとせしことありアモツの子預言者イザヤ彼の許にいたりて之にいひけるはヱホバかく言たまふ汝家の人に遺命をなせ汝は死ん生ることを得じと

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

2 是においてヒゼキヤその面を壁にむけてヱホバに祈り

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,

3 嗚呼ヱホバよ願くは我が眞實と一心をもて汝の前にあゆみ汝の目に適ふことを行ひしを記憶たまへと言て痛く泣り

“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

4 かくてイザヤ未だ中の邑を出はなれざる間にヱホバの言これに臨みて言ふ

Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

5 汝還りてわが民の君ヒゼキヤに告よ汝の父ダビデの神ヱホバかく言ふ我汝の祈祷を聽り汝の涙を看たり然ば汝を愈すべし第三日には汝ヱホバの家に入ん

“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.

6 我汝の齢を十五年増べし我汝とこの邑とをアッスリヤの王の手より救ひ我名のため又わが僕ダビデのためにこの邑を守らんと

I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for My sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

7 是に於てイザヤ乾無花果の団塊一箇を持きたれと言ければすなはち之を持きたりてその腫物に貼たればヒゼキヤ愈ぬ

Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.

8 ヒゼキヤ、イザヤに言けるはヱホバが我を愈したまふ事と第三日に我がヱホバの家にのぼりゆく事とにつきては何の徴あるや

Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”

9 イザヤ言けるはヱホバがその言しところを爲たまはん事につきては汝ヱホバよりこの徴を得ん日影進めること十度なり若日影十度退かば如何

And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”

10 ヒゼキヤ答へけるは日影の十度進むは易き事なり然せざれ日影を十度しりぞかしめよ

“It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”

11 是において預言者イザヤ、ヱホバに龥はりければアハスの日晷の上に進みし日影を十度しりぞかしめたまへり

So Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz.

12 その頃バラダンの子なるバビロンの王メロダクバラダン書および禮物をヒゼキヤにおくれり是はヒゼキヤの疾をるを聞たればなり

At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness.

13 ヒゼキヤこれがために喜びその寶物の庫金銀香物貴き膏および武器庫ならびにその府庫にあるところの一切の物を之に見せたりその家にある物もその國の中にある物も何一箇としてヒゼキヤが彼等に見せざる者はなかりき

And Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

14 茲に預言者イザヤ、ヒゼキヤ王のもとに來りてこれに言けるは夫の人々は何を言しや何處より來りしやヒゼキヤ言けるは彼等は遠き國より即ちバビロンより來れり

Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”

15 イザヤ言ふ彼等は汝の家にて何を見しやヒゼキヤ答へて云ふ吾家にある物は皆かれら之を見たり我庫の中には我がかれに見せざる者なきなり

“What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”

16 イザヤすなはちヒゼキヤに言けるは汝ヱホバの言を聞け

Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD:

17 ヱホバ言たまふ視よ日いたる凡て汝の家にある物および汝の先祖等が今日までに積蓄へたる物はバビロンに携ゆかれん遺る者なかるべし

The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.

18 汝の身より出る汝の生んところの子等の中を彼等携へ去ん其等はバビロンの王の殿において官吏となるべし

And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

19 ヒゼキヤ、イザヤに言ふ汝が語れるヱホバの言は善し又いふ若わが世にある間に大平と眞實とあらば善にあらずや

But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?”

20 ヒゼキヤのその餘の行爲その能およびその池塘と水道を作りて水を邑にひきし事はユダの王の歴代志の書にしるさるるにあらずや

As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

21 ヒゼキヤその先祖等とともに寝りてその子マナセこれに代りて王となれり

And Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and his son Manasseh reigned in his place.