ゼカリヤ書 4

1 我に語へる天の使また來りて我を呼醒せり我は睡れる人の呼醒されしごとくなりき

And once more the messenger who was speaking with me, roused me up, just as a man might be roused up out of his sleep.

2 彼我にむかひて汝何を見るやと言ければ我いへり我觀に惣金の燈臺一箇ありてその頂に油を容る噐ありまた燈臺の上に七箇の燭盞ありその燭盞は燈臺の頂にありて之に各七本づつの管あり

Then said he unto me, What canst thou see? And I said—I have looked, and lo! a Lampstand—all of gold, with the Bowl thereof upon the top thereof, and its Seven Lamps upon it, Seven Pipes each, to the lamps which are upon the top thereof;

3 また燈臺の側に橄欖の樹二本ありて一は油を容る噐の右にあり一はその左にあり

and, Two Olive-trees, by it, —one upon the right hand of the bowl, and one upon the left hand thereof.

4 我答へて我と語ふ天の使の問言けるは我主よ是等は何ぞやと

Then responded I, and said unto the messenger who was speaking with me, saying, —What are these, my lord?

5 我と語ふ天の使我に答へて汝是等の何なるを知ざるかと言しにより我主よ知ずとわれ言り

Then answered the messenger who was speaking with me, and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these, are? And I said, No my lord.

6 彼また答へて我に言けるはゼルバベルにヱホバの告たまふ言は是のごとし萬軍のヱホバ宣ふ是は權勢に由らず能力に由らず我靈に由るなり

Then responded he, and spake unto me, saying, This, is the word of Yahweh, unto Zerubbabel, saying, —Not by wealth, nor by strength, but by my spirit, saith Yahweh of hosts.

7 ゼルバベルの前にあたれる大山よ汝は何者ぞ汝は平地とならん彼は恩惠あれ之に恩惠あれと呼はる聲をたてて頭石を曳いださん

Who, art, thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel, [brought down] to a plain! So shall he bring forth the headstone, with thundering shouts Beautiful! Beautiful! thereunto.

8 ヱホバの言われに臨めり云く

Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:

9 ゼルバベルの手この室の石礎を置たり彼の手これを成終ん汝しらん萬軍のヱホバ我を汝等に遣したまひしと

The hands of Zerubbabel, have founded this house, and, his hands, shall finish it, —So shalt thou know that, Yahweh of hosts, hath sent me unto you.

10 誰か小き事の日を藐視むる者ぞ夫の七の者は遍く全地に往來するヱホバの目なり準繩のゼルバベルの手にあるを見て喜ばん

For who hath despised the day of small things? Yet shall they rejoice, when they see the plummet-stone in the hand of Zerubbabel, —these seven! The eyes of Yahweh, they are—running to and fro throughout all the earth.

11 我また彼に問て燈臺の右左にある此二本の橄欖の樹は何なるやと言ひ

Then responded I, and said unto him, —What are these two olive-trees, upon the right of the lampstand, and upon the left thereof?

12 重ねてまた彼に問て此二本の金の管によりて金の油をその中より斟ぎ出す二枝の橄欖は何ぞやと言しに

And I responded a second time, and said unto him, —What are the two branches of the olive- trees which join the two golden tubes, which empty out of them the golden oil?

13 彼われに答へて汝是等の何なるを知ざるかと言ければ我主よ知ずと言けるに

And he spake unto me, saying, Knowest thou not what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

14 彼言らく是等は油の二箇の子にして全地の主の前に立つ者なり

Then said he, These, are the two Anointed Ones, —who stand near the Lord of all the earth.