申命記 28
1 汝もし善く汝の神ヱホバの言に聽したがひ我が今日なんぢに命ずるその一切の誡命を守りて行はば汝の神ヱホバ汝をして地の諸の國人の上に立しめたまふべし
“If you do what Yahweh our God tells you to do and faithfully obey everything that I am today commanding you to do, he will cause you to become greater than any other nation on the earth.
2 汝もし汝の神ヱホバの言に聽したがふ時はこの諸の福祉汝に臨み汝におよばん
If you obey Yahweh, this is what he will do to bless you:
3 汝は邑の内にても福祉を得田野にても福祉を得ん
He will bless everything that you do when you are in the cities and he will bless everything that you do when you are [working] in the fields.
4 また汝の胎の產汝の地の產汝の家畜の產汝の牛の產汝の羊の產に福祉あらん
He will bless you by giving you many children [IDM] and by giving you abundant crops, and plenty of cattle and sheep.
5 また汝の飯籃と汝の捏盤に福祉あらん
He will bless you by causing you to have good harvests with plenty of grain [MTY] to make bread.
6 汝は入にも福祉を得出るにも福祉を得べし
He will bless you [everywhere]—when you go out [of your houses] and when you come into [your houses].
7 汝の敵起て汝を攻るあればヱホバ汝をして之を打敗らしめたまふべし彼らは一條の路より攻きたり汝の前にて七條の路より逃はしらん
Yahweh will enable you to defeat [the armies of] your enemies; they will attack you from one direction, but they will run away from you in seven/many directions.
8 ヱホバ命じて福祉を汝の倉庫に降しまた汝が手にて爲ところの事に降し汝の神ヱホバの汝に與ふる地においてヱホバ汝を祝福たまふべし
Yahweh will bless you [by filling] your barns [with grain], and he will bless all the work that you do; he will bless you in the land that he is giving to you.
9 汝もし汝の神ヱホバの誡命を守りてその道に歩まばヱホバ汝に誓ひしごとく汝を立て己の聖民となしたまふべし
“If you obey all the commandments that Yahweh our God [has given to you] and if you conduct your lives as he wants you to do, you will continue to be his people, which is what he promised.
10 然る時は地の民みな汝がヱホバの名をもて稱へらるるを視て汝を畏れん
“When all the people-groups on the earth will realize that you belong to [MTY] Yahweh, and they will be afraid of you.
11 ヱホバが汝に與へんと汝の先祖等に誓ひたまひし地においてヱホバ汝の佳物すなはち汝の身の產と汝の家畜の產と汝の地の產とを饒にしたまふべし
“And Yahweh will cause you to prosper very much. He will give you many children [IDM], many cattle, and abundant crops in the land that he vowed to our ancestors that he would give to you.
12 ヱホバその寶の蔵なる天を啓き雨をその時にしたがびて汝の地に降し汝の手の諸の行爲に祝福をたまはん汝は許多の國々の民に貸ことをなすに至らん借ことなかるべし
“When rain is needed, Yahweh will send it from where he stores it in the sky, and he will bless all your work, with the result that you [will be able to] lend money to many other nations, but you will not need to borrow [money from them].
13 ヱホバ汝をして首とならしめたまはん尾とはならしめたまはじ汝は只上におらん下には居じ汝もし我が今日汝に命ずる汝の神ヱホバの誡命に聽したがひてこれを守りおこなはばかならず斯のごとくなるべし
If you faithfully obey all of the commands of Yahweh our God that I am giving you today, Yahweh will cause your nation to be a leader among the nations, not inferior to them; you will always be prosperous and never be needy/poor [IDM].
14 汝わが今日汝に命ずるこの言語を離れ右または左にまがりて他の神々にしたがひ事ふることをすべからず
[Yahweh will do all these things for you] if you do not turn away from [obeying] what I am commanding you today, and if you never worship or serve other gods.
15 汝もし汝の神ヱホバの言に聽したがはず我が今日なんぢに命ずるその一切の誡命と法度とを守りおこなはずば此もろもろの呪詛汝に臨み汝におよぶべし
But if you do not do what Yahweh our God is telling you to do, and if you do not faithfully obey all his rules and regulations that I am giving to you today, this is what he will do to curse you:
16 汝は邑の内にても詛はれ田野にても詛はれん
He will curse you when you are in the cities and he will curse you when you are [working] in the fields.
17 また汝の飯籃も汝の捏盤も詛はれん
He will curse you by not allowing you to have good harvests with plenty of grain [MTY] to make bread.
18 汝の胎の產汝の地の產汝の牛の產汝の羊の產も詛はれん
He will curse you by giving you only a few children [IDM], by causing you to have poor crops, and by not enabling you to have many cattle and sheep.
19 汝は入にも詛はれ出るにも詛はれん
He will curse you [everywhere]—when you go out [of your houses] and when you come into [your houses].
20 ヱホバ汝をしてその凡て手をもて爲ところにおいて呪詛と恐懼と鑓責を蒙らしめたまふべければ汝は滅びて速かに亡はてん是は汝惡き事をおこなひて我を棄るによりてなり
If you do evil things and reject Yahweh, he will curse you by causing you to (be confused/not know what to do), and to be frustrated in everything that you do, until [your enemies] quickly and completely destroy you {you will be quickly and completely destroyed}.
21 ヱホバ疫病を汝の身に着せて遂に汝をその往て得るとこるの地より滅ぼし絶たまはん
Yahweh will cause you to experience terrible diseases, until not one of you remains alive in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.
22 ヱホバまた癆瘵と熱病と傷寒と瘧疾と刀劍と枯死と汚腐とをもて汝を撃なやましたまふべし是らの物汝を追ひ汝をして滅びうせしめん
Yahweh will strike/afflict you with diseases that shrivel your bodies, with fever, with inflammation/swelling. It will be extremely hot, and it will not rain. There will be scorching winds, and [Yahweh will cause] your crops to rot. All these things will strike you until you die.
23 汝の頭の上なる天は銅のごとくになり汝の下なる地は鐵のごとくになるべし
There will be no rain [MET], [with the result that] the ground will be [as hard as] iron [MET].
24 ヱホバまた雨のかはりに沙と灰とを汝の地に降せたまはん是らの物天より汝の上に下りて遂に汝を滅ぼさん
Instead of sending rain, Yahweh will send strong winds to blow sand and dust over your land, until your land is ruined.
25 ヱホバまた汝をして汝の敵に打敗られしめたまふべし汝は彼らにむかひて一條の路より進み彼らの前にて七條の路より逃はしらん而して汝はまた地の諸の國にて虐遇にあはん
Yahweh will enable your enemies to defeat you; your soldiers will attack your enemies from one direction, but they will run away from your enemies in seven/many directions, and when the people of other nations see what is happening to you, they will say that it is horrible.
26 汝の死屍は空の諸の鳥と地の獣の食とならん然るもこれを逐はらふ者あらじ
[You will die], and birds and wild animals will come and eat your corpses, and there will not be anyone to scare/shoo them away.
27 ヱホバまたエジプトの瘍瘡と痔と癰と癢とをもて汝を撃たまはん汝はこれより愈ることあらじ
Yahweh will cause you to have boils on your skin, like he caused the people of Egypt to have [many years ago]. He will cause you to have tumors, open sores, and your skin will itch, and there will be nothing that will cure those diseases.
28 ヱホバまた汝を撃ち汝をして狂ひ且目くらみて心に驚き悸れしめたまはん
Yahweh will cause [some of] you to become insane; he will cause some of you to become blind, and he will cause [some of] your minds to become confused.
29 汝は瞽者が暗にたどるごとく眞晝においても尚たどらん汝その途によりて福祉を得ることあらじ汝は只つねに虐げられ掠められんのみ汝を救ふ者なかるべし
[Because you will not be able to see where you are going], at midday you will (grope/feel your way) around with your hands, like people do in the darkness. You will continually be oppressed and robbed, and no one will help you.
30 汝妻を娶る時は他の人これと寝ん汝家を建るもその中に住ことを得ず葡萄園を作るもその葡萄を摘とることを得じ
Some of you men will be engaged/promised to marry a young woman, but someone else will rape her. You will build houses, but you will never live in them. You will plant grapevines, but you will not eat the grapes; [someone else will eat them].
31 汝の牛汝の目の前に宰らるるも汝は之を食ふことを得ず汝の驢馬は汝の目の前にて奪ひさられん再び汝にかへることあらじ又なんぢの羊は汝の敵の有とならん然ど汝にはこれを救ふ道あらじ
Your enemies will butcher your cattle while you watch them, and you will not get any of the meat to eat. They will drag away your donkeys while you watch them do it, and they will not give them back to you. They will take away your sheep; and no one will help you [rescue them].
32 汝の男子と汝の女子は他邦の民の有とならん汝は終日これを慕ひ望みて目を喪ふに至らん汝の手には何の力もあらじ
While you watch, your sons and daughters will be given to foreigners to become their slaves. Every day you will very sadly watch for your children to return, but (you will watch in vain/they will never return).
33 汝の地の產物および汝の努苦て得たる物は汝の識ざる民これを食はん汝は只つねに虐げられ窘められん而已
People from a foreign nation will take all the crops that you worked hard to produce, and they will constantly treat you harshly and cruelly [DOU].
34 汝はその目に見るところの事によりて心狂ふに至らん
The result will be that all these terrible things that you see/experience will cause you to become insane.
35 ヱホバ汝の膝と脛とに惡くして愈ざる瘍瘡を生ぜしめて終に足の蹠より頭の頂にまでおよぼしたまはん
Yahweh will cause your legs [to be covered with] painful boils that cannot be healed, and you will have boils from the bottoms of your feet to the tops of your heads.
36 ヱホバ汝と汝が立たる王とを携へて汝も汝の先祖等も知ざりし國々に移し給はん汝は其處にて木または石なる他の神々に事ふるあらん
Yahweh will cause your king and the rest of you to be taken to another country, to a place in which you and your ancestors have never lived before, and there you will worship and serve gods that are made of wood or stone.
37 汝はヱホバの汝を遣はしたまふ國々にて人の詑異む者となり諺語となり諷刺とならん
When the people-groups in nearby countries see what has happened to you, they will be shocked/horrified; they will make fun [DOU] of you.
38 汝は多分の種を田野に携へ出すもその刈とるとこるは少かるべし蝗これを食ふべければなり
You will plant plenty of seeds in your fields, but you will reap only a small harvest, because locusts will eat the crops.
39 汝葡萄園を作りてこれに培ふもその酒を飮ことを得ずまたその果を斂むることを得じ蟲これを食ふべければなり
You will plant grapevines and take care of them, but you will not pick any grapes to make wine, because worms will eat the vines.
40 汝の國には遍く橄欖の樹あらん然ど汝はその油を身に膏ことを得じ其果みな堕べければなり
Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not get any olive oil to rub on your skin because the olives will drop [on the ground before they are ripe].
41 汝男子女子を擧くるもこれを汝の有とすることを得じ皆擄へゆかるべければなり
You will have sons and daughters, but they will not stay with you, because they will be captured and taken away.
42 汝の諸の樹および汝の地の產物はみな蝗これを取て食ふべし
Swarms of locusts/insects will eat your crops and [the leaves of] all your trees.
43 汝の中間にある他國の人はますます高くなりゆきて汝の上に出で汝はますます卑くなりゆかん
Foreigners who live in your land will become more and more [powerful], and you will become less and less [powerful].
44 彼は汝に貸ことをせん汝は彼に貸ことを得じ彼は首となり汝は尾とならん
They will [have money to] lend to you, but you will not [have any money to] lend to them. They will be superior [IDM] to you, and you will be inferior to them [IDM].
45 この諸の災禍汝に臨み汝を追ひ汝に及びてつひに汝を滅ぼさん是は汝その神ヱホバの言に聽したがはず其なんぢに命じたまへる誡命と法度とを守らざるによるなり
“You will experience all these disasters, and you will continue to experience them you until you are destroyed, if you do not do what Yahweh your God told you to do, and do not obey all the rules and regulations that he gave to you.
46 是等の事は恒になんぢと汝の子孫の上にありて徴證となり人を驚かす者となるべし
“These disasters will warn [DOU] you and your descendants forever [about what happens to groups who disobey Yahweh].
47 なんぢ萬の物の豊饒なる中にて心に歓び樂みて汝の神ヱホバに事へざるに因り
“Because Yahweh blessed you abundantly in many ways, you should have served him very joyfully [DOU], but you did not do that.
48 饑ゑ渇きかつ裸になり萬の物に乏しくしてヱホバの汝に攻きたらせたまふところの敵に事ふるに至らん彼鐵の軛をなんぢの頸につけて遂に汝をほろぼさん
“Therefore, you will work for the enemies whom Yahweh will send to attack you. You will be hungry and thirsty; you will not have clothes to wear; and you will lack everything else that you need. And Yahweh will cause you to become slaves [MET] and work hard until he gets rid of you.
49 即ちヱホバ遠方より地の極所より一の民を鵰の飛がごとくに汝に攻きたらしめたまはん是は汝がその言語を知ざる民
“Yahweh will cause an army from very far away [HYP] to attack you, whose soldiers speak a language that you do not know/understand. They will swoop down on you [quickly] like an eagle [SIM] attacks its prey.
50 その面の猛惡なる民にして老たる者の身を顧みず幼稚者を憐まず
They will be fierce looking. They will not act mercifully toward anyone, not even young children and old people.
51 汝の家畜の產と汝の地の產を食ひて汝をほろぼし穀物をも酒をも油をも牛の產をも羊の產をも汝のために遺さずして終に全く汝を滅さん
They will [kill and] eat your livestock, and they will eat your crops, and you will (starve/die because you do not have anything to eat). They will not leave for you any grain or wine or [olive] oil or cattle or sheep; and you will all die [from hunger].
52 その民は汝の全國において汝の一切の邑々を攻圍み遂にその汝が賴む堅固なる高き石垣をことごとく打圮し汝の神ヱホバの汝にたまへる國の中なる一切の邑々をことごとく攻圍むべし
Your enemies will surround your towns throughout the land that Yahweh your God is about to give to you, and they will break down the high and strong walls [around your towns], walls which you trusted/thought would protect you.
53 汝は敵に圍まれ烈しく攻なやまさるるによりて終にその汝の神ヱホバに賜はれる汝の胎の產なる男子女子の肉を食ふにいたらん
“When your enemies are surrounding [your towns], you will be extremely hungry, with the result that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters that Yahweh your God has given to you.
54 汝らの中の柔生育にして軟弱なる男すらもその兄弟とその懐の妻とその遺れる子女とを疾視
When your enemies have surrounded your towns, even the most gentle and sensitive men among you will want food very desperately, with the result that they will [kill their own children and] eat their flesh, because they will not have anything else to eat. They will not even share any of it with their brothers or wives whom they love very much or with any of their children who are still alive.
55 自己の食ふその子等の肉をこの中の誰にも與ふることを好まざらん是は汝の敵汝の一切の邑々を圍み烈しく汝を攻なやまして何物をも其人に遺さざればなり
56 又汝らの中の柔生育にして繊弱なる婦女すなはちその柔生育にして繊弱なるがために足の蹠を土につくることをも敢てせざる者すらもその懐の夫とその男子とその女子とを疾視
Even the most gentle and sensitive/kind women among you, who are very refined/rich with the result that they have never had to walk anywhere [HYP], will do the same thing. When your enemies have surrounded your towns, those women will be extremely hungry, with the result that after they give birth to a baby, they will secretly [kill it and] eat its flesh and also eat its afterbirth. And they will not share any of it with their husbands whom they love very much or with any of their other children.
57 己の足の間より出る胞衣と己の產ところの子を取て密にこれを食はん是は汝の敵なんぢの邑々を圍み烈しくこれを攻なやますによりて何物をも得ざればなり
58 汝もしこの書に記したるこの律法の一切の言を守りて行はず汝の神ヱホバと云榮ある畏るべき名を畏れずば
“If you do not faithfully obey all of the laws that I am writing, and if you do not revere Yahweh our glorious God [MTY],
59 ヱホバ汝の災禍と汝の子孫の災禍を烈しくしたまはん其災禍は大にして久しくその疾病は重くして久しかるべし
he will [punish you by] causing you and your descendants to experience great afflictions and plagues which will last for many years.
60 ヱホバまた汝が懼れし疾病なるエジプトの諸の疾病を持きたりて汝の身に纏ひ附しめたまはん
He will cause you to experience the plagues that he sent on the people of Egypt, and you will never be healed.
61 また此律法の書に載ざる諸の疾病と諸の災害を汝の滅ぶるまでヱホバ汝に降したまはん
He will also cause you to experience many other sicknesses and diseases that I have not talked about in these laws, until you all will die.
62 汝らは空の星のごとくに衆多かりしも汝の神ヱホバの言に聽したがはざるによりて殘り寡に打なさるべし
You became as numerous as the stars in the sky, but only a few of you will remain alive, if you do not obey Yahweh your God.
63 ヱホバさきに汝らを善して汝等を衆くすることを喜びしごとく今はヱホバ汝らを滅ぼし絶すことを喜びたまはん汝らは其往て獲ところの地より抜さらるべし
Yahweh was very happy to do good things for you and to cause you to become very numerous, but now he will be happy to ruin you and get rid of you. [Those of] you [who do not die from these plagues] will be snatched away from the land that you will soon be entering to possess.
64 ヱホバ地のこの極よりかの極までの國々の中に汝を散したまはん汝は其處にて汝も汝の先祖等も知ざりし木または石なる他の神々に事へん
“Yahweh will scatter you among many people-groups, all over the earth, and in those areas/places you will serve other gods that are made of wood or stone, gods which you and your ancestors have never known/worshiped.
65 その國々の中にありて汝は安寧を得ずまた汝の足の跖を休むる所を得じ其處にてヱホバ汝をして心慄き目昏み精神亂れしめたまはん
In those places you will be restless. Yahweh will cause you to be constantly worried/anxious, feel hopeless, and discouraged.
66 汝の生命は細き糸に懸るが如く汝に見ゆ汝は夜晝となく恐怖をいだき汝の生命おぼつかなしと思はん
You will always be afraid that your enemies will kill you. You will be very fearful, all day and all night.
67 汝心に懼るる所によりまた目に見る所によりて朝においては言ん嗚呼夕ならば善らんとまた夕においては言ん嗚呼朝ならば善らんと
Because you will be very fearful/afraid because of the [terrible] things that you see, each morning you will say ‘I wish it were evening already!’ and each evening you will say ‘I wish it were morning already!’
68 ヱホバなんぢを舟にのせ彼の昔わが汝に告て汝は再びこれを見ることあらじと言たるその路より汝をエジプトに曳ゆきたまはん彼處にて人汝らを賣て汝らの敵の奴婢となさん汝らを買ふ人もあらじ
Yahweh will send [some of] you back to Egypt in ships, even though he promised that you would never [be forced to] go there again. There in Egypt you will try to sell yourselves to become slaves of your enemies [in order to have food to eat], but no one will buy you. [All those things will happen to you if you do not obey the laws that Yahweh is giving to you].”
