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
About this time Hezekiah fell very sick and was about to die. The prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your affairs in order, because you are going to die. You won't 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
When Hezekiah heard this, he went to pray privately 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 remember Lord how I have followed you faithfully with all my heart. I have done what is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah cried and cried.
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 Lord spoke 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 in and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, This is what the Lord, the God of your forefather David, says: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Look! I am going to heal you. In three days time you will go to the Lord's Temple.
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. I will save you and this city from 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 dressing from figs.” Hezekiah's servants did so and put it on the skin sores, and Hezekiah got better.
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
Hezekiah had previously asked Isaiah, “What is the sign to confirm that the Lord is going heal me and that I will go to the Lord's Temple in three days time?”
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
Isaiah replied, “This is the sign from the Lord to you that the Lord will do what he promised: Do you want 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's easy enough for the shadow to go forward ten steps, but not to go back ten steps,” Hezekiah answered.
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 asked the Lord, and he moved the shadow back the ten steps it had gone down 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 the same time Merodach-baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, because he had heard that Hezekiah was sick.
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
Hezekiah welcomed the visitors and showed them everything in his treasury—all the silver, the gold, the spices, and the expensive oils. He also showed them his armory and all that he had in his storehouses. In fact there wasn't anything in his palace or in the whole of his kingdom that Hezekiah didn't 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 him, “Where did those men come from, and what did they tell you?” “They came from a long way away, from Babylon,” Hezekiah replied.
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 did they see in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They saw everything in my palace,” replied Hezekiah. “There wasn't anything in all my storehouses I didn't 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
Isaiah told Hezekiah, “Listen to what the Lord says:
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
You can be certain that the time is coming when everything in your palace, and everything that your forefathers have saved up until now, will be taken away to Babylon. There will be nothing 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
Some of your sons, your own offspring, will be taken to serve as 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
Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The message from the Lord that you have told me is fine.” For he said to himself, “Why not, if there'll be peace and safety 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
The rest of what happened in Hezekiah's reign, all he did, and how he made the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city, are recorded in the Book of 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
Hezekiah died, and his son Manasseh succeeded him as king.
