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 Nabuchodonosor dreamed a dream, and his spirit was amazed, and his sleep departed from 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
And the king gave orders to call the enchanters, and the magicians, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to declare to the king his dreams. And 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
And the king said to them, I have dreamed, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
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
And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, [saying], O king, live for ever: do thou tell the dream to thy servants, and we will declare 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 answered the Chaldeans, The thing has departed from me: if ye do not make known to me the dream and the interpretation, ye shall be destroyed, and your houses shall be spoiled.
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 ye make known to me the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and presents and much honour: only tell me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
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 the second time, and said, Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare 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
And the king answered and said, I verily know that ye are trying to gain time, because ye see that the thing has gone from me.
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 then ye do not tell me the dream, I know that ye have concerted to utter before me a false and corrupt tale, until the time shall have past: tell me my dream, and I shall know that ye will also declare to me the interpretation thereof.
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 Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is no man upon the earth, who shall be able to make known the king’s matter: forasmuch as no great king or ruler asks such a question of an enchanter, magician, or Chaldean.
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
For the question which the king asks is difficult, and there is no one else who shall answer it before the king, but the gods, whose dwelling is not with any flesh.
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
Then the king in rage and anger commanded 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 forth, and they began to slay the wise men; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to slay [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
Then Daniel answered [with] counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the royal guard, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon; [saying],
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
Chief magistrate of the king, wherefore has the peremptory command proceeded from the king? So Arioch made known the matter 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
And Daniel intreated the king to give him time, and that he might [thus] declare to the king the interpretation of it.
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
So Daniel went into his house, and made known the matter to Ananias, and Misael, and Azarias, his friends.
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
And they sought mercies from the God of heaven concerning this mystery; that Daniel and his friends might not perish 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
Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night: and Daniel blessed the God of heaven, and said,
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
May the name of God be blessed from everlasting and to everlasting: for wisdom and understanding are his.
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
And he changes times and seasons: he appoints kings, and removes [them], giving wisdom to the wise, and prudence to them that have understanding:
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 deep and secret [matters]; knowing what is in darkness, and the light is 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
I give thanks to thee, and praise [thee], O God of my fathers, for thou hast given me wisdom and power, and hast made known to me the things which we asked of thee; and thou hast made known to me the king’s vision.
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
And Daniel came to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said to him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon, but bring me in before the king, and I will declare the interpretation to the king.
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
Then Arioch in haste brought in Daniel before the king, and said to him, I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judea, who will declare the interpretation to the king.
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
And the king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Baltasar, Canst thou declare to me the dream which I saw, and the interpretation thereof?
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
And Daniel answered before the king, and said, The mystery which the king asks [the explanation of] is not [in the power] of the wise men, magicians, enchanters, [or] soothsayers to declare to the king.
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 revealing mysteries, and he has made known to king Nabuchodonosor what things must come to pass in the last days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are as follows,
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
O king: thy thoughts upon thy bed arose [as to] what must come to pass hereafter: and he that reveals mysteries has made known to thee what must come to pass.
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
Moreover, this mystery has not been revealed to me by reason of wisdom which is in me beyond all [others] living, but for the sake of making known the interpretation to the king, that thou mightest know the thoughts of thine heart.
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
Thou, O king, sawest, and behold an image: that image was great, and the appearance of it excellent, standing before thy face; and the form of it was terrible.
32 其像は頭は純金 胸と兩腕とは銀 腹と腿とは銅
[It was] an image, the head of which was of fine gold, its hands and breast and arms of silver, [its] belly and thighs of brass,
33 脛は鐵 脚は一分は鐵一分は泥土なり
its legs of iron, its feet, part of iron and part of earthenware.
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
Thou sawest until a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands, and it smote the image upon its feet of iron and earthenware, and utterly reduced them to powder.
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 once for all the earthenware, the iron, the brass, the silver, the gold, were ground to powder, and became as chaff from the summer threshingfloor; and the violence of the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them: and the stone which had smitten the image became a great mountain, and filled all the earth.
36 是その夢なり我らその解明を王の前に陳ん
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
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
Thou, O king, art a king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given a powerful and strong and honourable kingdom,
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
in every place where the children of men dwell: and he has given into thine hand the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, and he has made thee lord of all.
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
Thou art the head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and a third kingdom which is the brass, which shall have dominion over all the 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
and a fourth kingdom, which shall be strong as iron: as iron beats to powder and subdues all things, so shall it beat to powder and subdue.
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 whereas thou sawest the feet and the toes, part of earthenware and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet there shall be in it of the strength of iron, as thou sawest the iron mixed with earthenware.
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 [whereas] the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of earthenware, part of the kingdom shall be strong, and [part] of it shall be broken.
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
Whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with earthenware, they shall be mingled with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave together, as the iron does not mix itself with earthenware.
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
And in the days of those kings the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and his kingdom shall not be left to another people, [but] it shall beat to pieces and grind to powder all [other] kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
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
Whereas thou sawest that a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands, and it beat to pieces the earthenware, the iron, the brass, the silver, the gold; the great God has made known to the king what must happen hereafter: and the dream is true, and the interpretation thereof sure.
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
Then king Nabuchodonosor fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and gave orders to offer to him gifts and incense.
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
And the king answered and said to Daniel, Of a truth your God is a God of gods, and Lord of kings, who reveals mysteries; for thou hast been 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
And the king promoted Daniel, and gave him great and abundant gifts, and set him over the whole province of Babylon, and [made him] chief satrap 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 Daniel asked of the king, and he appointed Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel was in the king’s palace.
