エゼキエル書 17
1 爰にヱホバの言我にのぞみて言ふ
The LORD’s word came to 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, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to 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, ‘The Lord GOD says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers which had various colours, came to 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 its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted 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 also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree.
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
It grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned towards him, and its roots were under him. So it became a vine, produced branches, and shot out 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. Behold, this vine bent its roots towards him, and shot out its branches towards him, from the ground where it was planted, 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 produce branches and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good 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, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, that it may wither, that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? It can’t be raised from its roots by a strong arm or many people.
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
Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the ground where it grew.”’”
11 ヱホバの言また我にのぞみて言ふ
Moreover the LORD’s word came to 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, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, 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
He took one of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land,
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 the kingdom might be brought low, 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 many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still 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,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will 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
Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company won’t help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts to cut off many persons.
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
For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t 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 the Lord GOD says: ‘As I live, I will surely bring on his own head my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken.
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
I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgement with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed 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
All his fugitives in all his bands will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered towards every wind. Then you will 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
“The Lord GOD says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
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
I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.
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
All the trees of the field will 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 flourish. “‘I, the LORD, have spoken and have done it.’”
