ヨハネの黙示録 5
1 我また御座に坐し給ふ者の右の手に、卷 物のあるを見たり、その裏表に文字あり、七つの印をもて封ぜらる。
I saw that there was a scroll in the right hand of the one who was sitting on the throne. The scroll was written on its outside as well as on its inside, and it was sealed {Someone had written on the outside as well as on the inside of the scroll and sealed it} with seven seals.
2 また大聲に『卷 物を開きてその封印を解くに相應しき者は誰ぞ』と呼はる強き御使を見たり。
I saw a strong angel who was announcing in a loud voice, “(The person who is worthy to break the seals of the scroll and then to open it should come to do it!/Who is worthy to break the seals of the scroll and then to open it?)” [RHQ]
3 然るに天にも地にも、地の下にも、卷 物を開きて之を見 得る者なかりき。
But no created being in heaven nor any created being on the earth nor any created being under the earth was able to open the scroll and see what was written on it.
4 卷 物を開き、これを見るに相應しき者の見えざりしに因りて、我いたく泣きゐたりしに、
I cried loudly because there was no one worthy to do that.
5 長老の一人われに言ふ『泣くな、視よ、ユダの族の獅子・ダビデの萠蘗、すでに勝を得て卷 物とその七つの封印とを開き得るなり』
But one of the elders said to me, “Do not cry any longer! Look, the one who is called the Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Messiah who is the descendant of King David, has overcome Satan! As a result, he is worthy to break the seven seals on the scroll and open it!”
6 我また御座および四つの活物と長老たちとの間に、屠られたるが如き羔羊の立てるを見たり、之に七つの角と七つの目とあり、この目は全世界に遣されたる神の七つの靈なり。
Then I saw Jesus, the one who is like a [MET] sacrificial lamb, standing there. He stood near the throne, in the midst of the four living creatures and the elders. It appeared that he had been killed {that people had killed him}, but he was alive again. He had seven horns [on his head], and he had seven eyes that symbolize the Spirit of God who has all kinds of power (OR, who is also symbolized as seven spirits). [He] sends [God’s] Spirit out into all the earth.
7 かれ來りて御座に坐したまふ者の右の手より卷 物を受けたり。
He came and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who sits on the throne.
8 卷 物を受けたるとき、四つの活物および二十四人の長老、おのおの立琴と香の滿ちたる金の鉢とをもちて、羔羊の前に平伏せり、此の香は聖徒の祈祷なり。
When he took the scroll, the four living [creatures] and the 24 elders (prostrated themselves/knelt down) before [Jesus], the [one who is like a] lamb, [to worship him]. They each had a harp, and they had golden bowls full of incense that [represents] the prayers of God’s people.
9 かくて新しき歌を謳ひて言ふ『なんぢは卷 物を受け、その封印を解くに相應しきなり、汝は屠られ、その血をもて諸種の族・國語・民・國の中より人々を神のために買ひ、
The living [creatures] and the elders sang a new song. They sang: You are worthy to receive the scroll and to open its seals, because you were killed, and because you redeemed/bought people for God from every tribe, language [MTY], people-group, and nation with the blood that flowed from your body when you died.
10 之を我らの神のために國民となし、祭司となし給へばなり。彼らは地の上に王となるべし』
You have caused them to become a people over whom our God rules, and to become priests who serve him, and they will rule on [MTY] the earth.
11 我また見しに、御座と活物と長老たちとの周圍にをる多くの御使の聲を聞けり。その數、千々萬々にして、
As I [continued to] look, I heard the voices of many angels around the throne and around the living [creatures] and the elders. There were millions of them, a [crowd so large that no one could count them].
12 大聲にいふ『屠られ給ひし羔羊こそ、能力と富と知慧と、勢威と尊崇と、榮光と讃美とを受くるに相應しけれ』
They were singing in a loud voice: “The one who is like a lamb was killed {whom his enemies killed} but he became alive again. He is worthy that all created beings acknowledge that he is infinitely powerful, infinitely rich, infinitely wise, and infinitely strong! He is worthy of being honored and praised by all created beings!”
13 我また天に、地に、地の下に、海にある萬の造られたる物、また凡てその中にある物の云へるを聞けり。曰く『願はくは御座に坐し給ふものと羔羊とに、讃美と尊崇と榮光と權力と世々 限りなくあらん事を』 (aiōn g165)
I also heard every creature that is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the ocean, every creature in all those places, saying (OR, singing): “We must forever praise and honor the one who sits on the throne and the one who is like a lamb, May they reign with complete power forever!” (aiōn g165)
14 四つの活物はアァメンと言ひ、長老たちは平伏して拜せり。
The four living [creatures] said, “(Amen!/May it be so!)” Then the elders prostrated themselves and worshipped [God and Jesus].
