士師記 11
1 ギレアデ人ヱフタはたけき勇士にして妓婦の子なりギレアデ、ヱフタをうましめしなり
And Jephthah the Gileadite hath been a mighty man of valour, and he [is] son of a woman, a harlot; and Gilead begetteth Jephthah,
2 ギレアデの妻子等をうみしが妻の子等成長におよびてヱフタをおひいだしてこれにいひけるは汝は他の婦の子なればわれらが父の家を嗣べきにあらずと
and the wife of Gilead beareth to him sons, and the wife's sons grow up and cast out Jephthah, and say to him, 'Thou dost not inherit in the house of our father; for son of another woman [art] thou.'
3 ヱフタ其の兄弟の許より逃さりてトブの地に住けるに遊蕩者ヱフタのもとに集ひ來りて之とともに出ることをなせり
And Jephthah fleeth from the face of his brethren, and dwelleth in the land of Tob; and vain men gather themselves together unto Jephthah, and they go out with him.
4 程經てのちアンモンの子孫イスラエルとたたかふに至りしが
And it cometh to pass, after a time, that the Bene-Ammon fight with Israel,
5 アンモンの子孫のイスラエルとたたかへるときにギレアデの長老等ゆきてヱフタをトブの地より携來らんとし
and it cometh to pass, when the Bene-Ammon have fought with Israel, that the elders of Gilead go to take Jephthah from the land of Tob;
6 ヱフタにいひけるは汝來りて吾らの大將となれ我らアンモンの子孫とたたかはん
and they say unto Jephthah, 'Come, and thou hast been to us for captain, and we fight against the Bene-Ammon.'
7 ヱフタ、ギレアデの長老等にいひけるは汝らは我を惡みてわが父の家より逐いだしたるにあらずやしかるに今汝らが艱める時に至りて何ぞ我に來るや
And Jephthah saith to the elders of Gilead, 'Have not ye hated me? and ye cast me out from the house of my father, and wherefore have ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?'
8 ギレアデの長老等ヱフタにこたへけるは其がために我ら今汝にかへる汝われらとともにゆきてアンモンの子孫とたたかはばすべて我等ギレアデにすめるものの首領となすべしと
and the elders of Gilead say unto Jephthah, 'Therefore, now, we have turned back unto thee; and thou hast gone with us, and fought against the Bene-Ammon, and thou hast been to us for head — to all the inhabitants of Gilead.'
9 ヱフタ、ギレアデの長老等にいひけるは汝らもし我をたづさへかへりてアンモンの子孫とたたかはしめんにヱホバ之を我に付したまはば我は汝らの首となるべし
And Jephthah saith unto the elders of Gilead, 'If ye are taking me back to fight against the Bene-Ammon, and Jehovah hath given them before me — I, am I to you for a head?'
10 ギレアデの長老等ヱフタにいひけるはヱホバ汝と我との間の證者たり我ら誓つて汝の言のごとくになすべし
And the elders of Gilead say unto Jephthah, 'Jehovah is hearkening between us — if according to thy word we do not so.'
11 是に於てヱフタ、ギレアデの長老等とともに往くに民之を立ておのれの首領となし大將となせりヱフタ即ちミヅパにおいてヱホバのまへにこの言をことごとく陳たり
And Jephthah goeth with the elders of Gilead, and the people set him over them for head and for captain, and Jephthah speaketh all his words before Jehovah in Mizpeh.
12 かくてヱフタ、アンモンの子孫の王に使者をつかはしていひけるは汝と我の間に何事ありてか汝われに攻めきたりてわが地に戰はんとする
And Jephthah sendeth messengers unto the king of the Bene-Ammon, saying, 'What — to me and to thee, that thou hast come in unto me, to fight in my land.'
13 アンモンの子孫の王ヱフタの使者に答へけるはむかしイスラエル、エジプトより上りきたりし時にアルノンよりヤボクにいたりヨルダンに至るまで吾が土地を奪ひしが故なり然ば今穩便に之を復すべし
And the king of the Bene-Ammon saith unto the messengers of Jephthah, 'Because Israel took my land in his coming up out of Egypt, from Arnon, and unto the Jabbok, and unto the Jordan; and now, restore them in peace.'
14 ヱフタまた使者をアンモンの子孫の王に遣りて之にいはせけるは
And Jephthah addeth yet and sendeth messengers unto the king of the Bene-Ammon,
15 ヱフタ斯いへりイスラエルはモアブの地を取ずまたアンモンの子孫の地をも取ざりしなり
and saith to him, 'Thus said Jephthah, Israel took not the land of Moab, and the land of the Bene-Ammon,
16 夫イスラエルはエジプトより上りきたれる時に曠野を經て紅海に到りカデシに來れり
for in their coming up out of Egypt, Israel goeth in the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and cometh in to Kadesh,
17 而してイスラエル使者をエドムの王に遣して言けるはねがはくは我をして汝の土地を經過しめよと然るにエドムの王之をうけがはずまたおなじく人をモアブの王に遣したれども是もうべなはざりしかばイスラエルはカデシに留まりしが
and Israel sendeth messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me pass over, I pray thee, through thy land, and the king of Edom hearkened not; and also unto the king of Moab hath [Israel] sent, and he hath not been willing; and Israel abideth in Kadesh,
18 遂にイスラエル曠野を經てエドムの地およびモアブの地を繞りモアブの地の東の方に出てアルノンの彼方に陣を取り然どモアブの界には入らざりきアルノンはモアブの界なればなり
and he goeth through the wilderness, and compasseth the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and cometh in at the rising of the sun of the land of Moab, and they encamp beyond Arnon, and have not come into the border of Moab, for Arnon [is] the border of Moab.
19 かくてイスラエル、ヘシボンに王たりしアモリ人の王シホンに使者を遣せりすなはちイスラエル之にいひけらくねがはくは我らをして汝の土地を經過てわがところにいたらしめよと
'And Israel sendeth messengers unto Sihon, king of the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and Israel saith to him, Let us pass over, we pray thee, through thy land, unto my place,
20 然るにシホン、イスラエルを信ぜずしてその界をとほらしめずかへつてそのすべての民を集めてヤハヅに陣しイスラエルとたたかひしが
and Sihon hath not trusted Israel to pass over through his border, and Sihon gathereth all his people, and they encamp in Jahaz, and fight with Israel;
21 イスラエルの神ヱホバ、シホンとそのすべての民をイスラエルの手に付したまひたればイスラエル之を撃敗りてその土地にすめるアモリ人の地を悉く手に入れ
and Jehovah, God of Israel, giveth Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smite them, and Israel possesseth all the land of the Amorite, the inhabitant of that land,
22 アルノンよりヤボクに至るまでまた曠野よりヨルダンに至るまですべてアモリ人の土地を手に入たり
and they possess all the border of the Amorite from Arnon, and unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness, and unto the Jordan.
23 斯のごとくイスラエルの神ヱホバは其の民イスラエルのまへよりアモリ人を逐しりぞけたまひしに汝なほ之を取んとする乎
'And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorite from the presence of His people Israel, and thou wouldest possess it!
24 汝は汝の神ケモシが汝に取しむるものを取ざらんやわれらは我らの神ヱホバが我らに取しむる物を取ん
That which Chemosh thy god causeth thee to possess — dost thou not possess it? and all that which Jehovah our God hath dispossessed from our presence, — it we do possess.
25 汝は誠にモアブの王チツポルの子バラクにまされる處ありとするかバラク曾てイスラエルとあらそひしことありや曾て之とたたかひしことありや
'And now, [art] thou at all better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he at all strive with Israel? did he at all fight against them?
26 イスラエルがヘシボンとその村里アロエルとその村里およびアルノンの岸に沿ひたるすべての邑々に住ること三百年なりしに汝などてかその間に之を回復さざりしや
In Israel's dwelling in Heshbon and in its towns, and in Aroer and in its towns, and in all the cities which [are] by the sides of Arnon three hundred years — and wherefore have ye not delivered them in that time?
27 我は汝に罪を犯せしことなきに汝はわれとたたかひて我に害をくはへんとす願くは審判をなしたまふヱホバ今日イスラエルの子孫とアンモンの子孫との間を鞫きたまへと
And I — I have not sinned against thee, and thou art doing with me evil — to fight against me. Jehovah, the Judge, doth judge to-day between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.'
28 しかれどもアンモンの子孫の王はヱフタのいひつかはせる言を聽いれざりき
And the king of the Bene-Ammon hath not hearkened unto the words of Jephthah which he sent unto him,
29 ここにヱホバの靈ヱフタに臨みしかばヱフタすなはちギレアデおよびマナセを經過りギレアデのミヅパにいたりギレアデのミヅパよりすすみてアンモンの子孫に向ふ
and the Spirit of Jehovah is on Jephthah, and he passeth over Gilead and Manasseh, and passeth over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he hath passed over to the Bene-Ammon.
30 ヱフタ、ヱホバに誓願を立ていひけるは汝誠にアンモンの子孫をわが手に付したまはば
And Jephthah voweth a vow to Jehovah, and saith, 'If Thou dost at all give the Bene-Ammon into my hand —
31 我がアンモンの子孫の所より安然かに歸らんときに我家の戸より出きたりて我を迎ふるもの必ずヱホバの所有となるべし我之を燔祭となしてささげんと
then it hath been, that which at all cometh out from the doors of my house to meet me in my turning back in peace from the Bene-Ammon — it hath been to Jehovah, or I have offered up for it — a burnt-offering.'
32 ヱフタすなはちアンモンの子孫の所に進みゆきて之と戰ひしにヱホバかれらをその手に付したまひしかば
And Jephthah passeth over unto the Bene-Ammon to fight against them, and Jehovah giveth them into his hand,
33 アロエルよりミンニテにまで至りこれが二十の邑を打敗りてアベルケラミムにいたり甚だ多の人をころせりかくアンモンの子孫はイスラエルの子孫に攻伏られたり
and he smiteth them from Aroer, and unto thy going in to Minnith, twenty cities, and unto the meadow of the vineyards — a very great smiting; and the Bene-Ammon are humbled at the presence of the sons of Israel.
34 かくてヱフタ、ミヅパに來りておのが家にいたるに其女鼓を執り舞ひ踊りて之を出で迎ふ是彼が獨子にて其のほかには男子もなくまた女子も有ざりき
And Jephthah cometh into Mizpeh, unto his house, and lo, his daughter is coming out to meet him with timbrels, and with choruses, and save her alone, he hath none, son or daughter.
35 ヱフタ之を視てその衣を裂ていひけるはああ吾が女よ汝實に我を傷しむ汝は我を惱すものなり其は我ヱホバにむかひて口を開きしによりて改むることあたはざればなり
And it cometh to pass, when he seeth her, that he rendeth his garments, and saith, 'Alas, my daughter, thou hast caused me greatly to bend, and thou hast been among those troubling me; and I — I have opened my mouth unto Jehovah, and I am not able to turn back.'
36 女之にいひけるはわが父よ汝ヱホバにむかひて口をひらきたれば汝の口より言出せしごとく我になせよ其はヱホバ汝のために汝の敵なるアンモンの子孫に仇を復したまひたればなり
And she saith unto him, 'My father — thou hast opened thy mouth unto Jehovah, do to me as it hath gone out from thy mouth, after that Jehovah hath done for thee vengeance on thine enemies, on the Bene-Ammon.'
37 女またその父にいひけるはねがはくは此事をわれに允せすなはち二月の間我をゆるし我をしてわが友等とともに往て山にくだりてわが處女たることを歎かしめよと
And she saith unto her father, 'Let this thing be done to me; desist from me two months, and I go on, and have gone down on the hills, and I weep for my virginity — I and my friends.'
38 ヱフタすなはち往けといひて之を二月のあひだ出し遣ぬ女その友等とともに往き山の上にておのれの處女たるを歎きしが
And he saith, 'Go;' and he sendeth her away two months, and she goeth, she and her friends, and she weepeth for her virginity on the hills;
39 二月滿てその父に歸り來りたれば父その誓ひし誓願のごとくに之に行へり女は終に男を知ことなかりき
and it cometh to pass at the end of two months that she turneth back unto her father, and he doth to her his vow which he hath vowed, and she knew not a man; and it is a statute in Israel:
40 是よりして年々にイスラエルの女子等往て年に四日ほどギレアデ人ヱフタの女のために哀哭ことをなす是イスラエルの規矩となれり
from time to time the daughters of Israel go to talk to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.
