エゼキエル書 15

1 ヱホバの言われに臨みて言ふ

And thee word of the Lord came vnto 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

Sonne of man, what commeth of the vine tree aboue all other trees? and of the vine braunch, which is among the trees of ye 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

Shall wood bee taken thereof to doe any worke? or wil men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

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

Behold, it is cast in the fire to be consumed: the fire consumeth both the endes of it, and the middes of it is burnt. Is it meete for any worke?

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

Behold, when it was whole, it was meete for no worke: how much lesse shall it bee meete for any worke, when the fire hath consumed it, and it is burnt?

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 thus sayth the Lord God, As the vine tree, that is among the trees of the forest, which I haue giuen to the fire to be consumed, so will I giue the inhabitants of Ierusalem.

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: they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall consume them: and ye shall know, that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them,

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

And when I make the lande waste, because they haue greatly offended, saith the Lord God.