民数記 24

1 バラムはイスラエルを祝することのヱホバの心に適ふを視たれば此度は前の時のごとくに往て法術を求むる事を爲ずその面を曠野に向て居り

And when Balaam saw that it was good in the eyes of Yahweh to bless Israel, he went not as at other times to invoke enchantments, —but set towards the desert, his face.

2 バラム目を擧てイスラエルのその支派にしたがひて居るを觀たり時に神の霊かれに臨みければ

So Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel, dwelling, according to his tribes, —then came upon him the Spirit of God;

3 彼すなはちこの歌をのべて云くベオルの子バラム言ふ目の啓きたる人言ふ

and he took up his parable, and said, —The oracle of Balaam, son of Beor, Yea the oracle of the man, of opened eye;

4 神の言詞を聞し者能はざる無き者をまぼろしに觀し者倒れ臥て其目の啓けたる者言ふ

The oracle of one hearing sayings of GOD, Who the sight of the Almighty, receiveth in vision, Who falleth down but hath unveiled eyes: —

5 ヤコブよ汝の天幕は美しき哉イスラエルよ汝の住所は美しき哉

How pleasing are thy tents, O Jacob, —Thy habitations, O Israel:

6 是は谷々のごとくに布列ね河邊の園のごとくヱホバの栽し沈香樹のごとく水の邊の香柏のごとし

Like ravines extended, Like gardens by a river, —Like aloe-trees Yahweh hath planted, Like cedars by waters:

7 その桶よりは水溢れんその種は水の邊に發育んその王はアガグよりも高くなりその國は振ひ興らん

He poureth forth water from his buckets, And, his seed, is among many waters, —And taller than Agag is his King, And exalted is his kingdom.

8 神これをエジプトより導き出せり是は強きこと兕のごとくその敵なる國々の民を呑つくしその骨を摧き矢をもて之を衝とほさん

GOD having brought him forth out of Egypt, The very horns of the buffalo, are his, —He eateth up nations that assail him And the bones of them, he breaketh And the loins of him, he crusheth:

9 是は牡獅子のごとくに身をかがめ牝獅子のごとくに臥す誰か敢てこれを起さんやなんぢを祝するものは福祉を得なんぢをのろふものは災禍をかうむるべし

He hath knelt—hath lain down, Like a strong lion, yea like a lioness, Who shall rouse him up? Such as bless thee are each one blessed, But, such, as curse thee, are each one cursed.

10 ここにおいてバラクはバラムにむかひて怒を發しその手を拍ならせり而してバラク、バラムにいひけるは我はなんぢをしてわが敵を詛はしめんとてなんぢを招きたるに汝は却て斯三度までも彼らを大に祝したり

Then kindled the anger of Balak against Balaam, and he smote together his hands, —and Balak said unto Balaam—To revile my foes, I called thee, And lo! thou hast kept on blessing, these three times.

11 然ば汝今汝の處に奔り往け我は汝に大なる尊榮を得させんと思ひたれどヱホバ汝を阻めて尊榮を得るに至らざらしむ

Now, therefore, flee thou unto thy place, —I said, I will, highly honour, thee; but lo! Yahweh hath kept thee back from honour.

12 バラム、バラクに言けるは我は汝が我に遣しし使者等に告て言ざりしや

And Balaam said unto Balak, —Was it not so that even unto thy messengers whom thou didst send unto me, I spake saying-

13 假令バラクその家に盈るほどの金銀を我に與ふるとも我はヱホバの言を踰て自己の心のままに善も惡きも爲ことを得ず我はヱホバの宣まふ事のみを言べしと

Though Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, yet could I not go beyond the bidding of Yahweh, to, do good or ill, out of my own heart, —what Yahweh shall speak, that, must I speak?

14 今われは吾民にかへる然ば來れ我この民が後の日に汝の民に爲んところの事を汝に告しらせんと

Now, therefore, behold me! going to my own people, —Come now! let me advise thee, what this people shall do unto thy people in the after-part of the days.

15 すなはちこの歌をのべて云くベオルの子バラム言ふ目の啓きたる人言ふ

So he took up his parable and said, —The oracle of Balaam, son of Beor, Yea the oracle of the man, of opened eye;

16 神の言を聞るあり至高者を知の知識あり能はざる無き者をまぼろしに觀倒れ臥て其目の啓けたる者言ふ

The oracle of one hearing sayings of GOD, And knowing the knowledge of the Most High, —Who the sight of the Almighty, receiveth in vision, Who falleth down but hath unveiled eyes: —

17 我これを見ん然ど今にあらず我これを望まん然ど近くはあらずヤコブより一箇の星いでんイスラエルより一條の杖おこりモアブを此旁より彼旁に至まで撃破りまた鼓譟者どもを盡く滅すべし

I see One, who is not now, I observe One, who is not nigh, —There hath marched forth a Star out of Jacob. And arisen a Sceptre out of Israel, That hath dishonoured the beard of Moab, Yea the crown of the head of all the tumultuous;

18 其敵なるエドムは是が產業となりセイルは之が產業とならんイスラエルは盛になるべし

So Edom hath become a possession, Yea a possession is Seir to his foes, —But, Israel, is doing valiantly;

19 權を秉る者ヤコブより出で遺れる者等を城より滅し絶ん

Yea One wieldeth dominion out of Jacob, —Who hath destroyed the remnant out of the fortress.

20 バラム又アマレクを望みこの歌をのべて云くアマレクは國々の中の最初なる者なり其終には滅び絶るに至らん

And, when he saw Amalek, he took up, his parable, and said—The beginning of nations, —Amalek, But his latter end is even to perish.

21 亦ケニ人を望みこの歌をのべて云く汝の住所は堅固なり汝は磐に巣をつくる

And when he saw the Kenite, he took up his parable, and said, —Enduring thy dwelling-place, Set thou then in the crag, thy nest;

22 然どカインは亡て終にアッスリアの爲に擄へ移されん

Yet shall it be for destruction, O Kain, —How long shall Assyria hold thee captive?

23 彼亦この歌をのべて云く嗟神これを爲たまはん時は誰か生ることを得ん

And he took up his parable, and said, —Alas who shall survive its fulfillment by GOD;

24 キッテムの方より船來てアッスリアを攻なやましエベルを攻なやますべし而して是もまた終に亡失ん

When, ships, [come] from the coast of the isles, And humble Assyria, and humble the Hebrew, —And he too, is even to perish?

25 斯てバラムは起あがりて自己の處に歸り往きぬバラクも亦去ゆけり

Then Balaam arose, and went and returned unto his place, —and, Balak also, went his way.