士師記 8
1 エフライムの人々ギデオンにむかひ汝ミデアン人と戰はんとて往る時われらを召ざりしが斯ることを我らになすは何故ぞといひていたく之を詰りたり
And the men of Effraym seiden to hym, What is this thing, which thou woldist do, that thou clepidist not vs, whanne thou yedist to batel ayens Madian? And thei chidden strongli, and almest diden violence.
2 ギデオン之にいひけるは今吾が成るところは汝らのなせる所に比ぶべけんやエフライムの拾ひ得し遺餘の葡萄はアビエゼルの收穫し葡萄にも勝れるならずや
To whiche he answeride, `What sotheli siche thing myyte Y do, what maner thing ye diden? Whethir a reisyn of Effraym is not betere than the vindagis of Abiezer?
3 神はミデアンの群伯オレブとゼエブを汝等の手に付したまへりわが成えたるところは汝らの成る所に比ぶべけんやとギデオン此の語をのべしかば彼らの憤解たり
And the Lord bitook in to youre hondis the princes of Madian, Oreb and Zeb. What sich thing myyte Y do, what maner thing ye diden? And whanne he hadde spoke this thing, the spirit of hem restide, bi which thei bolneden ayens hym.
4 ギデオン自己に從がへる三百人とともにヨルダンに至りて之を濟り疲れながらも仍追撃しけるが
And whanne Gedeon hadde come to Jordan, he passide it with thre hundrid men, that weren with hym; and for weerynesse thei myyten not pursue hem that fledden.
5 遂にスコテの人々に言けるは願くは我にしたがへる民に食を與へよ彼等疲れをるに我ミデアンの王ゼバとザルムンナを追行なりと
And he seide to the men of Socoth, Y biseche, yyue ye looues to the puple, which is with me; for thei failiden greetli, that we moun pursue Zebee and Salmana, kyngis of Madian.
6 スコテの群伯等いひけるはゼバとザルムンナの手すでに汝の手のうちに在るや我らなんぞ汝の軍勢に食を與ふべけんや
The princes of Socoth answeriden in scorne, In hap the pawmes of the hondis of Zebee and of Salmana ben in thin hond, and therfor thou axist, that we yyue looues to thin oost.
7 ギデオンいひけるは然らばヱホバの吾が手にゼバをザルムンナを付したまふときに我野の荊と棘とをもて汝の肉を打つべしと
To whiche he seide, Therfor, whanne the Lord schal bitake Zebee and Salmana in to myn hondis, and whanne Y schal turne ayen ouercomere in pees, Y schal to-reende youre fleischis with the thornes and breris of deseert.
8 かくて其所よりペヌエルにのぼりおなじことを彼らにのべたるにペヌエルの人もスコテの人の答へしごとくに答へしかば
And he stiede fro thennus, and cam in to Phanuel; and he spak lijk thingis to men of that place, to whom also thei answeriden, as the men of Socoth hadden answerid.
9 またペヌエルの人につげていひけるは我平康に歸るときに此の城樓を毀つべしと
And so he seide to hem, Whanne Y schal turne ayen ouercomere in pees, Y schal distrie this tour.
10 偖ゼバとザルムンナはその軍勢おほよそ一萬五千人をひきゐてカルコルに居る是皆東方の人の全軍の中の生殘れるものなり戰死せし者は劍を拔ところのもの十二萬人ありき
Forsothe Zebee and Salmana restiden with al her oost; for fiftene thousynde men leften of alle the cumpenyes of the `puplis of the eest, whanne an hundrid and twenti thousynde of `fiyteris and of men drawynge out swerd weren slayn.
11 ギデオンすなはちノバとヨグベバの東にて天幕にすめるものの路より上りて敵軍の慮りなく居るを撃り
And Gedeon stiede bi the weye of hem that dwelliden in tabernaclis at the eest coost of Nobe and of Lethoa, and smoot the `tentis of enemyes, that weren sikur, and supposiden not ony thing of aduersite.
12 ここにおいてゼバとザルムンナにげ走りたればギデオン之を追撃ちミデアンの二人の王ゼバとザルムンナを生捕て悉くその軍勢を敗れり
And Zebee and Salmana fledden, whiche Gedeon pursuede and took, whanne al `the oost of hem was disturblid.
13 斯てヨアシの子ギデオン、ヘレシの阪よりして戰陣よりかへり
And he turnede ayen fro batel bifor the `risyng of the sunne,
14 スコテの人の少壯者一人を執へて之に尋ねたれば即ちスコテの群伯およびその長老等七十七人をこれがために書き録せり
and took a child of the men of Socoth; and he axide hym the names of the princes and eldere men of Socoth; and he descryuede seuene and seuenti men in noumbre.
15 ギデオン、スコテの人の所に詣りていひけるは汝らが曾て我を罵りゼバとザルムンナの手すでに汝の手のうちにあるや我ら何ぞ汝の疲れたる人に食をあたふべけんやと言たりしそのゼバとザルムンナを見よと
And he cam to Socoth, and seide to hem, Lo Zebee and Salmana! of whiche ye vpbreideden me, and seiden, In hap the hondis of Zebee and of Salmana ben in thin hondis, and therfor thou axist, that we yyue looues to men, that ben weeri and failiden.
16 すなはちその邑の長老等を執へ野の荊と棘を取り之をもちてスコテの人を懲し
Therfor Gedeon took the eldere men of the citee, and thornes and breris of deseert, and he to-rente with tho, and al to-brak the men of Socoth; also he destriede the tour of Phanuel,
17 またペヌヘルの城樓を毀ちて邑の人を殺せり
whanne the dwelleris of the citee weren slayn.
18 かくてギデオン、ゼバとザルムンナにいひけるは汝らがタボルにて殺せしものは如何なるものなりしや答へていふ彼らは汝に似てみな王子の如くに見えたり
And he seide to Zebee and Salmana, What maner men weren thei, whiche ye killiden in Thabor? Whiche answeriden, Thei weren lijk thee, and oon of hem was as the sone of a kyng.
19 ギデオンいひけるは彼らは我が兄弟我が母の子なりヱホバは活く汝らもし彼らを生し置たらば我汝らを殺すまじきをと
To whiche he seide, Thei weren my britheren, the sones of my modir; the Lord lyueth, if ye hadden saued hem, Y `nolde sle you.
20 すなはちその長子ヱテルに起て彼らを殺せといひたりしが彼の少者は年尚わかかりしかば懼れて劍を拔ざりき
And he seide to Jepther, his firste gendrid sone, Rise thou, and sle hem. Which drow not swerd; for he dredde, for he was yit a child.
21 ここにおいてゼバとザルムンナいひけるは汝みづから起て我らを撃よ人の如何によりてその力量異る者なりとギデオンすなはち起てゼバとザルムンナを殺しその駱駝の頸にかけたる半月の飾を取り
And Zebee and Salmana seiden, Ryse thou, and falle on vs; for thou art bi the age and strengthe of man. Gedeon roos, and killide Zebee and Salmana, and took the ournementis, and bellis, with whiche the neckis of kyngis camels ben wont to be maad fair.
22 茲にイスラエルの衆ギデオンにいひけるは汝ミデアンの手より我らを救ひたれば汝と汝の子及び汝の孫我らを治めよ
And alle the men of Israel seiden to Gedeon, Be thou lord of vs, thou, and thi sone, and the sone of thi sone; for thou deliueridist vs fro the hond of Madian.
23 ギデオン之にいひけるは我汝らを治むることをせじまた我が子も汝らを治むべからずヱホバ汝らを治めたまふべし
To whiche he seide, Y schal not be lord of you, nethir my sone schal be lord on you, but the Lord schal be lord.
24 ギデオンまた之にいひけるは我汝らにひとつの願ふべきことあり汝らおのおの掠取の環を我にあたへよと是は彼らイシマエル人なるをもて金の環を着けたるに由る
And he seide to hem, Y axe oon axyng of you, yyue ye to me the eere ryngis of youre prey; for Ismaelitis weren wont to haue goldun eere ryngis.
25 衆答へけるは我ら悦んで之を與へんとて衣を布きおのおの掠取の環を其うちに投げいれたり
Whiche answeriden, We schulen yyue moost gladli. And thei spredden forth a mentil on the erthe, and castiden forth therynne `eere ryngis of the prey;
26 ギデオンが求め得たる金の環の重量は金一千七百シケルなり外に半月の飾および耳環とミデアンの王たちの着たる紫のころもおよび駱駝の頸にかけたる鏈などもありき
and the weiyte of `eere ryngis axid was a thousynde and seuene hundrid siclis of gold, with out ournementis and brochis and cloth of purpur, whiche the kyngis of Madian weren wont to vse, and outakun goldun bies of camels.
27 ギデオン之をもて一箇のエポデを造り之をおのれの郷里オフラに藏むイスラエルみなこれを慕ひてこれと淫をおこなふこの物ギデオンと其家を陷るる罟となりぬ
And Gedeon made therof ephot, that is, a preestis cloth, `and propir cloth of the hiyeste preest, and he puttide it in his citee Ephra; and al Israel diden fornycacioun, `that is ydolatrye, ther ynne; and it was maad to Gedeon and to al his hows in to fallyng.
28 ミデアン人は是の如くイスラエルの子孫に攻ふせられてふたたびその頭を擡ることを得ざりきかくて國はギデオンの世にある中四十年の間平穩にてありき
Forsothe Madian was maad low bifor the sones of Israel, and thei myyten no more reise nollis; but the lond restide fourti yeer, in whiche Gedeon was souereyn.
29 ヨアシの子ヱルバアル往ておのれの家に住り
And so Jerobaal, sone of Joas, yede, and dwellide in his hows;
30 ギデオンは妻を多く有ちたれば其身より出たる子七十人ありき
and he hadde seuenti sones, that yeden out of his thiy, for he hadde many wyues.
31 シケムに居しその妾またひとりの子を產たれば之をアビメレクと名けたり
Forsothe a concubyn, `that is, secoundarie wijf, of hym, whom he hadde in Sichem, gendride to hym a sone, Abymelech bi name.
32 ヨアシの子ギデオン妙齡に邁みて死にアビエゼル人のオフラに在るその父ヨアシの墓に葬られたり
And Gedeon, sone of Joas, diede in good elde, and was biried in the sepulcre of Joas, his fadir, in Ephra, of the meynee of Ezri.
33 ギデオンの死るに及びてイスラエルの子孫復ひるがへりてバアルを慕ひて之と淫をおこなひバアルベリテをおのれの神と爲り
Forsothe aftir that Gedeon was deed, the sones of Israel turneden awey `fro Goddis religioun, and diden fornycacioun, `that is, idolatrie, with Baalym; and thei smytiden boond of pees with Baal, that he schulde be to hem in to God,
34 イスラエルの子孫その四周のもろもろの敵の手よりおのれを救ひ出したまひし神ヱホバを記憶えず
nether thei hadden mynde of her Lord God, that delyuerede hem fro the hond of alle her enemyes `bi cumpas;
35 またヱルバアルといふギデオンがイスラエルになせし諸の善行にしたがひて彼の家を厚く待ふことをせざりき
nether thei diden merci with the hous of Gerobaal Gedeon, bi alle the goodis whiche he `hadde do to Israel.
