ヨエル書 3
1 觀よ我ユダとヱルサレムの俘囚人を歸さん その日その時
“Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,
2 萬國の民を集め之を携へてヨシヤパテの谷にくだりかしこにて我民我ゆづりの產なるイスラエルのために彼らをさばかん 彼らこれを國々に散してその地を分ち取りたればなり
I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.
3 彼らは籤をひきて我民を取り童子を娼妓に換へ童女を賣り酒に換て飮めり
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
4 ツロ、シドンよベリシテのすべての國よ 汝ら我と何のかかはりあらんや 汝ら我がなししことに返をなさんとするや 若し我に返報をなさんとならば我忽ち迅速に汝らがなししことをもてその首に歸らしめん
Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.
5 是は汝らは我の金銀を取り我のしたふべき寶を汝らの宮にたづさへゆき
For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.
6 またユダの人とヱルサレムの人をギリシヤ人に賣りてその本國より遠く離らせたればなり
You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
7 視よ我かられを起して汝らが賣りたる處より出し汝らがなししことをもてその首にかへらしめん
Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
8 我はなんぢらの男子女子をユダの人の手に賣り彼らは之を遠き民なるシバ人に賣らん ヱホバこれを言ふ
I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
9 もろもろの國に宣つたへよ 戰爭の準備を爲し勇士をはげまし軍人をことごとくちかより來らしめよ
Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!
10 汝等の鋤を劍に打かへ汝らの鎌を鎗に打かへよ 弱き者も我は強しと言へ
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
11 四周の國々の民よ汝ら急ぎ上りて集れ ヱホバよ汝の勇士をかしこに降したまへ
Come quickly, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves. Bring down Your mighty ones, O LORD.
12 國々の民よ起て上りヨシヤパテの谷に至れ 彼處に我座をしめて四周の國々の民をことごとく鞫かん
Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.
13 鎌をいれよ 穀物は熟せり 來り踏めよ酒榨は盈ち甕は溢る 彼らの惡大なればなりと
Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.
14 かまびすしきかな無數の民審判の谷にありてかまびすし ヱホバの日審判の谷に近づくが故なり
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
15 日も月も暗くなり星その光明を失ふ
The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.
16 ヱホバ、シオンよりよびとどろかしヱルサレムより聲をはなち天地を震ひうごかしたまふ 然れどヱホバはその民の避所イスラエルの子孫の城となりたまはん
The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
17 かくて汝ら我はヱホバ汝等の神にして我聖山シオンに住むことをしるべし ヱルサレムは聖き所となり他國の人は重ねてその中をかよふまじ
Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.
18 その日山にあたらしき酒滴り岡に乳流れユダのもろもろの河に水流れヱホバの家より泉水流れいでてシッテムの谷に灌がん
And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.
19 エジプトは荒すたれエドムは荒野とならん 是はかれらユダの子孫を虐げ辜なき者の血をその國に流したればなり
Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
20 されどユダは永久にすまひヱルサレムは世々に保たん
But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 我さきにはかれらが流しし血の罪を報いざりしが今はこれをむくいん ヱホバ、シオンに住みたまはん
For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.”
