ヨハネの黙示録 12
1 また天に大なる徴 見えたり。日を著たる女ありて、其の足の下に月あり、其の頭に十二の星の冠冕あり。
Then a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
2 かれは孕りをりしが、子を産まんとして産みの苦痛と惱とのために叫べり、
She was with child and cried out in the pain and agony of giving birth.
3 また天に他の徴 見えたり。視よ、大なる赤き龍あり、これに七つの頭と十の角とありて、頭には七つの冠冕あり。
Then another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great fiery red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads.
4 その尾は天の星の三分の一を引きて之を地に落せり。龍は子を産まんとする女の前に立ち、産むを待ちて其の子を食ひ盡さんと構へたり。
His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and hurled them to the earth. Then the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
5 女は男子を産めり、この子は鐵の杖もて諸種の國人を治めん。かれは神の許に、その御座の下に擧げられたり。
She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne.
6 女は荒野に逃げゆけり。彼處に千二百 六十日の間かれが養はるる爲に神の備へ給へる所あり。
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had a place prepared for her to be nourished for one thousand two hundred sixty days.
7 かくて天に戰爭おこれり、ミカエル及びその使たち龍とたたかふ。龍もその使たちも之と戰ひしが、
Then war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. And the dragon fought back, along with his angels.
8 勝つこと能はず、天には、はや其の居る所なかりき。
But he did not prevail, and there was no longer any place found for him in heaven.
9 かの大なる龍、すなわち惡魔と呼ばれ、サタンと呼ばれたる全世界をまどはす古き蛇は落され、地に落され、その使たちも共に落されたり。
The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
10 我また天に大なる聲ありて『われらの神の救と能力と國と神のキリストの權威とは、今すでに來れり。我らの兄弟を訴へ夜晝われらの神の前に訴ふるもの落されたり。
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, “The salvation, power, and kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ, have now come. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, he who accuses them day and night before our God.
11 而して兄弟たちは羔羊の血と己が證の言とによりて勝ち、死に至るまで己が生命を惜まざりき。
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
12 この故に天および天に住める者よ、よろこべ、地と海とは禍害なるかな、惡魔おのが時の暫時なるを知り、大なる憤恚をいだきて汝 等のもとに下りたればなり』と云ふを聞けり。
Therefore rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you with great wrath, because he knows that his time is short.”
13 かくて龍はおのが地に落されしを見て、男子を生みし女を責めたりしが、
When the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
14 女は荒野なる己が處に飛ぶために、大なる鷲の兩の翼を與へられたれば、其處にいたり、一年、二年、また半年のあひだ蛇のまへを離れて養はれたり。
But the woman was given two wings like those of a great eagle so that she could fly away from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, to be nourished there for a time, times, and half a time.
15 蛇はその口より水を川のごとく、女の背後に吐きて之を流さんとしたれど、
Then out of his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood.
16 地は女を助け、その口を開きて龍の口より吐きたる川を呑み盡せり。
But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.
17 龍は女を怒りてその裔の殘れるもの、即ち神の誡命を守りイエスの證を有てる者に、戰鬪を挑まんとて出でゆき、 海邊の砂の上に立てり。
So the dragon was angry with the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring, those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.
