エゼキエル書 17
1 爰にヱホバの言我にのぞみて言ふ
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
2 人の子よ汝イスラエルの家に謎をかけ譬言を語りて
'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel,
3 言べし主ヱホバかく言たまふ大なる翼長き羽ありて種々の色の毛の滿たる大鷲レバノンに來りて香柏の梢を採り
and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar;
4 其芽の巓を摘みカナンの地にこれを持きたりて商人の邑に置きけるが
He cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
5 又その地の種をとりて之を種田に播けりすなはち之を水の多き處にもちゆきて柳のごとくにこれを樹しに
He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters, he set it as a slip.
6 成長ちて丈卑き垂さがりたる葡萄樹となり其枝は鷲にむかひその根は鷲の下にあり遂に葡萄樹となりて芽をふき葉を出す
And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose tendrils might turn toward him, and the roots thereof be under him; so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
7 此に又大なる翼多くの羽ある一箇の大鷲ありしがその葡萄樹根をこれにむかひて張り枝をこれにむかひて伸べ之をしてその植りたる地の外より水を灌がしめんとす
There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers; and, behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.
8 抑是を善き圃に多くの水の旁に植たるは根を張り實をむすびて盛なる葡萄樹とならしめんためなりき
It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a stately vine.
9 なんぢ主ヱホバかく言ふといふべし是旺盛になるや鷲その根を拔きその果を絕ちて之を枯しめざらんや其芽の若葉は皆枯ん之を根より擧るには強き腕と多くの人を用ふるにおよばざるなり
Say thou: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither, yea, wither in all its sprouting leaves? neither shall great power or much people be at hand when it is plucked up by the roots thereof.
10 是は樹られたれども旺盛にならんや東風これに當らば枯果ざらんや是その生たるところの地に枯べし
Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? In the beds where it grew it shall wither.'
11 ヱホバの言また我にのぞみて言ふ
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
12 背ける家に言ふべし汝等此の何たるを知ざるかと又言へ視よバビロンの王ヱルサレムに來りその王とその牧伯等を執へてこれをバビロンに曳ゆけり
'Say now to the rebellious house: Know ye not what these things mean? tell them: Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and brought them to him to Babylon;
13 彼また王の族の一人を取てこれと契約を立て誓言をなさしめ又國の強き者等を執へゆけり
and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him, and brought him under an oath, and the mighty of the land he took away;
14 是この國を卑くして自ら立つことを得ざらしめその人をして契約を守りてこれを堅うせしめんがためなりき
that his might be a lowly kingdom, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
15 然るに彼これに背きて使者をエジプトに遣し馬と多くの人を己におくらしめんとせり彼旺盛にならんや是を爲る者逃るることをえんや彼その契約をやぶりたり爭で逃るることを得んや
But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?
16 主ヱホバいひたまふ我は活く必ず彼は己を王となしたる彼王の處に偕にをりてバビロンに死べし彼その王の誓言を輕んじ其契約を破りたるなり
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
17 夫壘を築き雲梯を建てて衆多の人を殺さんとする時にはパロ大なる軍勢と衆多の人をもて彼のために戰爭をなさじ
Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company succour him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many souls;
18 彼は誓言を輕んじて契約を破る彼手を與へて却て此等の事をなしたれば逃るることを得ざるべし
seeing he hath despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
19 故に主ヱホバかく言たまふ我は活く彼が我の誓言を輕んじ我の契約をやぶりたる事を必ずかれの首にむくいん
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: As I live, surely Mine oath that he hath despised, and My covenant that he hath broken, I will even bring it upon his own head.
20 我わが網をかれの上にうちかけ彼をわが羅にとらへてバビロンに曳ゆき彼が我にむかひて爲しところの叛逆につきて彼を鞫くべし
And I will spread My net upon him, and he shall be taken in My snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his treachery that he hath committed against Me.
21 彼の諸の軍隊の逃脱者は皆刀に仆れ生殘れる者は八方に散さるべし汝等は我ヱホバがこれを言しなるを知にいたらん
And all his mighty men in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward every wind; and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.
22 主ヱホバかく言たまふ我高き香柏の梢の一を取てこれを樹ゑその芽の巓より若芽を摘みとりて之を高き勝れたる山に樹べし
Thus saith the Lord GOD: Moreover I will take, even I, of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it upon a high mountain and eminent;
23 イスラエルの高山に我これを植ん是は枝を生じ果をむすびて榮華なる香柏となり諸の類の鳥皆その下に棲ひその枝の蔭に住はん
in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a stately cedar; and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing, in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
24 是に於て野の樹みな我ヱホバが高き樹を卑くし卑き樹を高くし綠なる樹を枯しめ枯木を綠ならしめしことを知ん我ヱホバこれを言ひ之を爲なり
And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I the LORD have spoken and have done it.'
