ヨナ書 3
1 ヱホバの言ふたたびヨナに臨めり 曰く
And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time, saying:
2 起てかの大なる府ニネベに往きわが汝に命ずるところを宣よ
Arise, and go to Ninive the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.
3 ヨナすなはちヱホバの言に循ひて起てニネベに往り ニネベは甚だ大なる邑にしてこれをめぐるに三日を歴る程なり
And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days’ journey.
4 ヨナその邑に入はじめ一日路を行つつ呼はり曰けるは四十日を歴ばニネベは滅亡さるべし
And Jonas began to enter into the city one day’s journey: and he cried, and said: Yet forty days, and Ninive shall be destroyed.
5 かかりしかばニネベの人々神を信じ斷食を宣れ大なる者より小き者に至るまでみな麻布を衣たり
And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.
6 この言ニネベの王に聞えければ彼 位より起ち朝服を脱ぎ麻布を身に纒ふて灰の中に坐せり
And the word came to the king of Ninive; and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 また王大臣とともに命をくだしてニネベ中に宣しめて曰く人も畜も牛も羊もともに何をも味ふべからず 又物をくらひ水を飮べからず
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen nor sheep, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water.
8 人も畜も麻布をまとひ只管神に呼はり且おのおの其惡き途および其手に作す邪惡を離るべし
And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and cry to the Lord with all their strength, and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands.
9 或は神その聖旨をかへて悔い其烈しき怒を息てわれらを滅亡さざらん 誰かその然らざるを知んや
Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish?
10 神かれらの爲すところをかんがみ其あしき途を離るるを見そなはし彼等になさんと言し所の災禍を悔て之をなしたまはざりき
And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil way: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.
