ヨエル書 1
1 ペトエルの子ヨエルに臨めるヱホバの言
The word of the Lord which came to Joel the son of Bathuel.
2 老たる人よ汝ら是を聽け すべて此地に住む者汝ら耳を傾けよ 汝らの世あるは汝らの先祖の世にも是のごとき事ありしや
Hear these [words], you elders, and listen all you that inhabit the land. Have such things happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
3 汝ら之を子に語り子はまた之をその子に語りその子之を後の代に語りつたへよ
Tell your children concerning them, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.
4 噬くらふ蝗虫の遺せる者は群ゐる蝗虫のくらふ所となりその遺せる者はなめつくすおほねむしのくらふ所となりその遺せる者は喫ほろぼす蝗虫の食ふ所となれり
The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.
5 醉る者よ汝ら目を醒して泣け すべて酒をのむ者よ哭きさけべ あたらしき酒なんぢらの口に絶えたればなり
Awake, you drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all you that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness and removed are from your mouth.
6 そはことなる民わが國に攻よすればなり その勢ひ強くその數はかられずその齒は獅子の齒のごとくその牙は牝獅子の牙のごとし
For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion's teeth, and their back teeth those of a [lion's] whelp.
7 彼等わが葡萄の樹を荒しわが無花果の樹を折りその皮をはぎはだかにして之を棄つ その枝白くなれり
He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched [my vine], and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.
8 汝ら哀哭かなしめ 貞女その若かりしときの夫のゆゑに麻布を腰にまとひて哀哭かなしむがごとくせよ
Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9 素祭灌祭ともにヱホバの家に絶えヱホバに事ふる祭司等哀傷をなす
The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, you priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.
10 田は荒れ地は哀傷む 是穀物荒はて新しき酒つき油たえんとすればなり
For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;
11 こむぎ大むぎの故をもて農夫羞ぢよ 葡萄をつくり哭けよ 田の禾稼うせはてたればなり
the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.
12 葡萄樹は枯れ無花果樹は萎れ石榴椰子林檎および野の諸の樹は凋みたり 是をもて世の人の喜樂かれうせぬ
The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm tree, and apple, and all trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have have abolished joy.
13 祭司よ汝ら麻布を腰にまとひてなきかなしめ 祭壇に事ふる者よ汝らなきさけべ 神に事ふる者よなんぢら來り麻布をまとひて夜をすごせ 其は素祭も灌祭も汝らの神の家に入ことあらざればなり
Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, you priests: mourn, you that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, you that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.
14 汝ら斷食を定め集會を設け長老等を集め國の居民をことごとく汝らの神ヱホバの家に集めヱホバにむかひて號呼れよ
Sanctify a fast, proclaim a [solemn] service, gather the elders [and] all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord,
15 ああその日は禍なるかな ヱホバの日近く暴風のごとくに全能者より來らん
Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.
16 我らがまのあたりに食物絶えしにあらずや 我らの神の家に歡喜と快樂絶しにあらずや
[Your] meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.
17 種は土の下に朽ち倉は壞れ廩は圯る そは穀物ほろぼされたればなり
The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.
18 いかに畜獸は哀み鳴くや 牛の群は亂れ迷ふ 草なければなり 羊の群もまた死喪ん
What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.
19 ヱホバよ我なんぢに向ひて呼はらん 荒野の諸の草は火にて燒け野の諸の樹は火熖にてやけつくればなり
To you, O Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burnt up all the trees of the field.
20 野の獸もまた汝にむかひて呼はらん 其は水の流涸はて荒野の草火にてやけつくればなり
And the cattle of the field have looked up to you: for the fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.
