ダニエル書 2
1 ネブカデネザルの治世の二年にネブカデネザル夢を見それがために心に思ひなやみて復睡ること能はざりき
In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled his spirit, and sleep escaped him.
2 是をもて王は命を下し王のためにその夢を解せんとて博士と法術士と魔術士とカルデヤ人とを召しめたれば彼ら來りて王の前に立つ
So the king gave orders to summon the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and astrologers to explain his dreams. When they came and stood before the king,
3 王すなはち彼らにむかひ我夢を見その夢の義を知んと心に思ひなやむと言ければ
he said to them, “I have had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to understand it.”
4 カルデヤ人等スリア語をもて王に申しけるは願くは王長壽かれ請ふ僕等にその夢を語りたまへ我らその解明を進めたてまつらんと
Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”
5 王こたへてカルデヤ人に言けるは我すでに命を出せり汝等もしその夢とこれが解明とを我に示さざるにおいては汝らの身は切裂れ汝らの家は厠にせられん
The king replied to the astrologers, “My word is final: If you do not tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut into pieces and your houses will be reduced to rubble.
6 又汝らもしその夢とこれが解明を示さば贐物と賞賚と大なる尊榮とを我より獲ん然ばその夢と之が解明を我に示せ
But if you tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. So tell me the dream and its interpretation.”
7 彼らまた對へて言けるは願くは王僕どもにその夢を語りたまへ然ば我らその解明を奏すべしと
They answered a second time, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will give the interpretation.”
8 王こたへて言けるは我あきらかに知る汝らは吾命の下りしを見るが故に時を延さんことを望むなり
The king replied, “I know for sure that you are stalling for time, because you see that my word is final.
9 汝らもしその夢を我に示さずば汝らを處置するの法は只一のみ汝らは相語らひて虚言と妄誕なる詞を我前にのべて時の變るを待んとするなり汝ら今先その夢を我に示せ然すれば汝らがその解明をも我にしめし得ることを我しらんと
If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one decree for you. You have conspired to speak before me false and fraudulent words, hoping the situation will change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can give me its interpretation.”
10 カルデヤ人等こたへて王の前に申しけるは世の中には王のその事を示し得る人一箇もなし是をもて王たる者主たる者君たる者等の中に斯る事を博士または法術士またはカルデヤ人に問たづねし者絶てあらざるなり
The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.
11 王の問たまふその事は甚だ難し肉身なる者と共に居ざる神々を除きては王の前にこれを示すことを得る者無るべしと
What the king requests is so difficult that no one can tell it to him except the gods, whose dwelling is not with mortals.”
12 斯りしかば王怒を發し大に憤りバビロンの智者をことごとく殺せと命じたり
This response made the king so furious with anger that he gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
13 即ち此命くだりければ智者等は殺されんとせり又ダニエルとその同僚をも殺さんともとめたり
So the decree went out that the wise men were to be executed, and men went to look for Daniel and his friends to execute them.
14 茲に王の侍衛の長アリオク、バビロンの智者等を殺さんとて出きたりければダニエル遠慮と智慧とをもて之に應答せり
When Arioch, the commander of the king’s guard, had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon, Daniel replied with discretion and tact.
15 すなはち王の高官アリオクに對へて言けるは王なにとて斯すみやかにこの命を下したまひしやとアリオクその事をダニエルに告しらせたれば
“Why is the decree from the king so harsh?” he asked. At this time Arioch explained the situation to Daniel.
16 ダニエルいりて王に乞求めて言ふ暫くの時日を賜へ然ばその解明を王に奏せんと
So Daniel went in and asked the king to give him some time, so that he could give him the interpretation.
17 斯てダニエルその家にかへりその同僚ハナニヤ、ミシヤエルおよびアザリヤにこの事を告しらせ
Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
18 共にこの秘密につき天の神の憐憫を乞ひダニエルとその同僚等をしてその他のバビロンの智者とともに滅びさらしめんことを求めたりしが
urging them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be killed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
19 ダニエルつひに夜の異象の中にこの秘密を示されければダニエル天の神を稱賛ふ
During the night, the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision, and he blessed the God of heaven
20 即ちダニエル應へて言けるは永遠より永遠にいたるまでこの神の御名は讃まつるべきなり智慧と權能はこれが有なればなり
and declared: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him.
21 彼は時と期とを變じ王を廢し王を立て智者に智慧を與へ賢者に知識を賜ふ
He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.
22 彼は深妙秘密の事を顯し幽暗にあるところの者を知たまふまた光明彼の裏にあり
He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.
23 わが先祖等の神よ汝は我に智慧と權能を賜ひ今われらが汝に乞求めたるところの事を我にしめし給へば我感謝して汝を稱賛ふ即ち汝は王のかの事を我らに示したまへり
To You, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, because You have given me wisdom and power. And now You have made known to me what we have requested, for You have made known to us the dream of the king.”
24 是においてダニエルは王がバビロンの智者等を殺すことを命じおけるアリオクの許にいたり即ちいりてこれに言けるはバビロンの智者等を殺す勿れ我を王の前に引いたれよ我その解明を王に奏上ぐべしと
Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, “Do not execute the wise men of Babylon! Bring me before the king, and I will give him the interpretation.”
25 アリオクすなはちダニエルを引て急ぎ王の前にいたり王にまうしけるは我ユダの俘囚人の中に一箇の人を得たり是者その解明を王にまうしあげん
Arioch hastily brought Daniel before the king and said to him, “I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who will tell the king the interpretation.”
26 王こたへてベルテシヤザルと名くるダニエルに言けるは汝は我が見たる夢とその解明とを我に知らすることを得るやと
The king responded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to tell me what I saw in the dream, as well as its interpretation?”
27 ダニエルすなはち應へて王の前に言けるは王の問たまふ秘密は智者法術士博士卜筮師など之を王に奏上ぐることを得ず
Daniel answered the king, “No wise man, enchanter, medium, or magician can explain to the king the mystery of which he inquires.
28 然ど天に一の神ありて秘密をあらはし給ふ彼後の日に起らんところの事の如何なるかをネブカデネザル王にしらせたまふなり汝の夢汝が牀にありて想見たまひし汝の腦中の異象は是なり
But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the latter days. Your dream and the visions that came into your mind as you lay on your bed were these:
29 王よ汝牀にいりし時將來の事の如何を想ひまはしたまひしが秘密を顯す者將來の事の如何を汝にしめし給へり
As you lay on your bed, O king, your thoughts turned to the future, and the Revealer of Mysteries made known to you what will happen.
30 我がこの示現を蒙れるは凡の生る者にまさりて我に智慧あるに由にあらず唯その解明を王に知しむる事ありて王のつひにその心に想ひたまひし事を知にいたり給はんがためなり
And to me this mystery has been revealed, not because I have more wisdom than any man alive, but in order that the interpretation might be made known to the king, and that you may understand the thoughts of your mind.
31 王よ汝は一箇の巨なる像の汝の前に立るを見たまへり其像は大くしてその光輝は常ならずその形は畏ろしくあり
As you, O king, were watching, a great statue appeared. A great and dazzling statue stood before you, and its form was awesome.
32 其像は頭は純金 胸と兩腕とは銀 腹と腿とは銅
The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs were bronze,
33 脛は鐵 脚は一分は鐵一分は泥土なり
its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.
34 汝見て居たまひしに遂に一箇の石人手によらずして鑿れて出でその像の鐵と泥土との脚を撃てこれを碎けり
As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.
35 斯りしかばその鐵と泥土と銅と銀と金とは皆ともに碎けて夏の禾場の糠のごとくに成り風に吹はらはれて止るところ無りき而してその像を撃たる石は大なる山となりて全地に充り
Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
36 是その夢なり我らその解明を王の前に陳ん
This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.
37 王よ汝は諸王の王にいませり即ち天の神汝に國と權威と能力と尊貴とを賜へり
You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given sovereignty, power, strength, and glory.
38 また人の子等野の獣畜および天空の鳥は何處にをる者にもあれ皆これを汝の手に與へて汝にこれをことごとく治めしめたまふ汝はすなはち此金の頭なり
Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.
39 汝の後に汝に劣る一の國おこらんまた第三に銅の國おこりて全世界を治めん
But after you, there will arise another kingdom, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule the whole earth.
40 第四の國は堅きこと鐵のごとくならん鐵は能く萬の物を毀ち碎くなり 鐵の是等をことごとく打碎くがごとく其國は毀ちかつ碎くことをせん
Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; for iron shatters and crushes all things, and like iron that crushes all things, it will shatter and crush all the others.
41 汝その足と足の趾を見たまひしに一分は陶人の泥土一分は鐵なりければその國は分裂たる者ならん又汝鐵と粘土との混和たるを見たまひたればその國は鐵のごとく強からん
And just as you saw that the feet and toes were made partly of fired clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom, yet some of the strength of iron will be in it—just as you saw the iron mixed with clay.
42 その足の趾の一分は鐵一分は泥土なりしごとくその國は強きところもあり脆きところも有ん
And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.
43 汝が鐵と粘土との混りたるを見たまひしごとく其等は人草の種子と混らん然ど鐵と泥土との相合せざるごとく彼と此と相合すること有じ
As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay.
44 この王等の日に天の神一の國を建たまはん是は何時までも滅ぶること無らん此國は他の民に歸せず却てこの諸の國を打破りてこれを滅せん是は立ちて永遠にいたらん
In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.
45 かの石の人手によらずして山より鑿れて出で鐵と銅と泥土と銀と金とを打碎きしを汝が見たまひしは即ちこの事なり大御神この後に起らんところの事を王にしらせたまへるなりその夢は眞にしてこの解明は確なり
And just as you saw a stone being cut out of the mountain without human hands, and it shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold, so the great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy.”
46 是においてネブカデネザル王は俯伏てダニエルを拝し禮物と香をこれに献ぐることを命じたり
At this, King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, paid homage to Daniel, and ordered that an offering of incense be presented to him.
47 而して王こたへてダニエルに言けるは汝がこの秘密を明かに示すことを得たるを見れば誠に汝らの神は神等の神王等の主にして能く秘密を示す者なりと
The king said to Daniel, “Your God is truly the God of gods and Lord of kings, the Revealer of Mysteries, since you were able to reveal this mystery.”
48 かくて王はダこエルに高位を授け種々の大なる賜物を與へてこれをバビロン全州の總督となしまたバビロンの智者等を統る者の首長となせり
Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many generous gifts. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and chief administrator over all the wise men of Babylon.
49 王またダニエルの願によりてシヤデラクとメシヤクとアベデネゴを擧てバビロン州の事務をつかさどらしめたりダニエルは王の宮にをる
And at Daniel’s request, the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to manage the province of Babylon, while Daniel remained in the king’s court.
