エゼキエル書 15

1 ヱホバの言われに臨みて言ふ

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

2 人の子よ葡萄の樹森の中にあるところの葡萄の枝なんぞ他の樹に勝るところあらんや

“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest?

3 其木物をつくるに用ふべけんや又人これを用ひて器をかくる木釘を造らんや

Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can one make from it a peg on which to hang utensils?

4 視よ是は火に投いれられて燃ゆ火もしその兩の端を燒くあり又その中間焦たらば爭でか物をつくるに勝べけんや

No, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?

5 是はその全かる時すらも物を造るに用ふべからざれば况て火のこれを焚焦したる時には爭で物をつくるに用ふべけんや

Even when it was whole, it could not be made useful. How much less can it ever be useful when the fire has consumed it and charred it!

6 是故に主ヱホバかく言たまふ我森の樹の中なる葡萄の樹を火になげいれて焚く如くにヱルサレムの民をも然するなり

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem.

7 我面をかれらに向けて攻む彼らは火の中より出たれども火なほこれを燒つくすべし我面をかれらにむけて攻むる時に汝らは我のヱホバなるをしらん

And I will set My face against them. Though they may have escaped the fire, yet another fire will consume them. And when I set My face against them, you will know that I am the LORD.

8 彼等悖逆る事をおこなひしに由て我かの地を荒地となすべし主ヱホバこれを言ふ

Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”