列王記Ⅱ 19
1 ヒゼキヤ王はこれを聞いて、衣を裂き、荒布を身にまとって主に宮に入り、
And when king Hezekiah had heard this, he tore his garments, and he covered himself with sackcloth, and he entered the house of the Lord.
2 宮内卿エリアキムと書記官セブナおよび祭司のうちの年長者たちに荒布をまとわせて、アモツの子預言者イザヤのもとにつかわした。
And he sent Eliakim, the first ruler of the house, and Shebnah, the scribe, and the elders from the priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz.
3 彼らはイザヤに言った、「ヒゼキヤはこう申されます、『きょうは悩みと、懲しめと、はずかしめの日です。胎児がまさに生れようとして、これを産み出す力がないのです。
And they said to him: “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy. The sons are ready to be born, but the woman in labor does not have the strength.
4 あなたの神、主はラブシャケがその主君アッスリヤの王につかわされて、生ける神をそしったもろもろの言葉を聞かれたかもしれません。そしてあなたの神、主はその聞いた言葉をとがめられるかもしれません。それゆえ、この残っている者のために祈をささげてください』」。
Perhaps the Lord, your God, may hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of the Assyrians, his lord, sent so that he would reproach the living God, and rebuke with words, which the Lord, your God, has heard. And so, offer a prayer on behalf of the remnant that has been found.”
5 ヒゼキヤ王の家来たちがイザヤのもとに来たとき、
And the servants of king Hezekiah went to Isaiah.
6 イザヤは彼らに言った、「あなたがたの主君にこう言いなさい、『主はこう仰せられる、アッスリヤの王の家来たちが、わたしをそしった言葉を聞いて恐れるには及ばない。
And Isaiah said to them: “So shall you say to your lord. Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid before the face of the words that you have heard, by which the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.
7 見よ、わたしは一つの霊を彼らのうちに送って、一つのうわさを聞かせ、彼を自分の国へ帰らせて、自分の国でつるぎに倒れさせるであろう』」。
Behold, I will send a spirit to him, and he will hear a report, and he will return to his own land. And I will bring him down by the sword in his own land.”
8 ラブシャケは引き返して、アッスリヤの王がリブナを攻めているところへ行った。彼が王のラキシを去ったことを聞いたからである。
Then Rabshakeh returned, and he found the king of the Assyrians fighting against Libnah. For he had heard that he had withdrawn from Lachish.
9 この時アッスリヤの王はエチオピヤの王テルハカについて、「彼はあなたと戦うために出てきた」と人々がいうのを聞いたので、再び使者をヒゼキヤにつかわして言った、
And when he had heard from Tirhakah, the king of Ethiopia, saying, “Behold, he has gone out so that he may fight against you,” and when he went forth against him, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying:
10 「ユダの王ヒゼキヤにこう言いなさい、『あなたは、エルサレムはアッスリヤの王の手に陥ることはない、と言うあなたの信頼する神に欺かれてはならない。
“So shall you say to Hezekiah, the king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom you trust, lead you astray. And you should not say, ‘Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.’
11 あなたはアッスリヤの王たちがもろもろの国々にした事、彼らを全く滅ぼした事を聞いている。どうしてあなたが救われることができようか。
For you yourself have heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done to all the lands, the manner in which they have laid waste to them. Therefore, how would you alone be able to be freed?
12 わたしの父たちはゴザン、ハラン、レゼフ、およびテラサルにいたエデンの人々を滅ぼしたが、その国々の神々は彼らを救ったか。
Have the gods of the nations freed any of those whom my fathers have destroyed, such as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who were at Telassar?
13 ハマテの王、アルパデの王、セパルワイムの町の王、ヘナの王およびイワの王はどこにいるのか』」。
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena, and of Avva?”
14 ヒゼキヤは使者の手から手紙を受け取ってそれを読み、主の宮にのぼっていって、主の前にそれをひろげ、
And so, when Hezekiah had received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and had read it, he ascended to the house of the Lord, and he spread it out before the Lord.
15 そしてヒゼキヤは主の前に祈って言った、「ケルビムの上に座しておられるイスラエルの神、主よ、地のすべての国のうちで、ただあなただけが神でいらせられます。あなたは天と地を造られました。
And he prayed in his sight, saying: “O Lord, God of Israel, who sits upon the cherubim, you alone are God, over all the kings of the earth. You made heaven and earth.
16 主よ、耳を傾けて聞いてください。主よ、目を開いてごらんください。セナケリブが生ける神をそしるために書き送った言葉をお聞きください。
Incline your ear, and listen. Open your eyes, O Lord, and see. And hear all the words of Sennacherib, who sent so that he might reproach the living God before us.
17 主よ、まことにアッスリヤの王たちはもろもろの民とその国々を滅ぼし、
Truly, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have devastated all peoples and lands.
18 またその神々を火に投げ入れました。それらは神ではなく、人の手の作ったもので、木や石だから滅ぼされたのです。
And they have cast their gods into the fire. For they were not gods, but instead were the works of men’s hands, out of wood and stone. And so they destroyed them.
19 われわれの神、主よ、どうぞ、今われわれを彼の手から救い出してください。そうすれば地の国々は皆、主であるあなただけが神でいらせられることを知るようになるでしょう」。
Now therefore, O Lord our God, bring us salvation from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord God.”
20 その時アモツの子イザヤは人をつかわしてヒゼキヤに言った、「イスラエルの神、主はこう仰せられる、『アッスリヤの王セナケリブについてあなたがわたしに祈ったことは聞いた』。
Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I have heard what you beseeched from me, concerning Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians.
21 主が彼について語られた言葉はこうである、『処女であるシオンの娘はあなたを侮り、あなたをあざける。エルサレムの娘はあなたのうしろで頭を振る。
This is the word that the Lord has spoken about him: The virgin daughter of Zion has spurned and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind your back.
22 あなたはだれをそしり、だれをののしったのか。あなたはだれにむかって声をあげ、目を高くあげたのか。イスラエルの聖者にむかってしたのだ。
Whom have you reproached, and whom have you blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!
23 あなたは使者をもって主をそしって言った、「わたしは多くの戦車をひきいて山々の頂にのぼり、レバノンの奥に行き、たけの高い香柏と最も良いいとすぎを切り倒し、またその果の野営地に行き、その密林にはいった。
By the hand of your servants, you have reproached the Lord, and you have said: ‘By the multitude of my chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the summit of Lebanon. And I have cut down its sublime cedars, and its elect spruce trees. And I have entered even to its limits. And its forest of Carmel,
24 わたしは井戸を掘って外国の水を飲んだ。わたしは足の裏で、エジプトのすべての川を踏みからした」。
I have cut down. And I drank foreign waters, and I dried up all the enclosed waters with the steps of my feet.’
25 あなたは聞かなかったか、昔わたしがこれを定めたことを。堅固な町々をあなたが荒塚とすることも、いにしえの日からわたしが計画して今これをおこなうのだ。
But have you not heard what I have done from the beginning? From the days of antiquity, I have formed it, and now I have brought it to be. And fortified cities of fighting men will become piles of ruins.
26 そのうちに住む民は力弱くおののき、恥をいだいて、野の草のように、青菜のようになり、育たないで枯れる屋根の草のようになった。
And whoever may settle in these, they have trembled, with a weak hand, and they have been confounded. They have become like the hay of the field, and like weeds sprouting on the rooftops, which dry up before they reached maturity.
27 わたしはあなたのすわること、出入りすること、わたしにむかって怒り叫んだことをも知っている。
Your habitation, and your exit, and your entrance, and your way, I knew beforehand, along with your fury against me.
28 あなたがわたしにむかって怒り叫んだことと、あなたの高慢がわたしの耳にはいったため、わたしはあなたの鼻に輪をつけ、あなたの口にくつわをはめて、あなたをもときた道へ引きもどすであろう』。
You have been maddened against me, and your arrogance has ascended to my ears. And so, I will place a ring in your nose, and a bit between your lips. And I will lead you back along the way by which you came.
29 『あなたに与えるしるしはこれである。すなわち、ことしは落ち穂からはえたものを食べ、二年目にはまたその落ち穂からはえたものを食べ、三年目には種をまき、刈り入れ、ぶどう畑を作ってその実を食べるであろう。
But as for you, Hezekiah, this shall be a sign: Eat this year whatever you will find, and in the second year, whatever may spring up of itself. But in the third year, sow and reap; plant vineyards, and eat from their fruit.
30 ユダの家ののがれて残る者は再び下に根を張り、上に実を結ぶであろう。
And whatever will have been left behind, from the house of Judah, shall send a root downward, and shall bear fruit upward.
31 すなわち残る者がエルサレムから出てき、のがれた者がシオンの山から出て来るであろう。主の熱心がこれをされるであろう』。
Indeed, a remnant shall go forth from Jerusalem, and what may be saved shall go forth from mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall accomplish this.
32 それゆえ、主はアッスリヤの王について、こう仰せられる、『彼はこの町にこない、またここに矢を放たない、盾をもってその前に来ることなく、また塁を築いてこれを攻めることはない。
For this reason, thus says the Lord about the king of the Assyrians: He shall not enter into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor overtake it with the shield, nor encircle it with fortifications.
33 彼は来た道を帰って、この町に、はいることはない。主がこれを言う。
By the way that he came, so shall he return. And he shall not enter this city, says the Lord.
34 わたしは自分のため、またわたしのしもべダビデのためにこの町を守って、これを救うであろう』」。
And I will protect this city, and I will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of my servant David.”
35 その夜、主の使が出て、アッスリヤの陣営で十八万五千人を撃ち殺した。人々が朝早く起きて見ると、彼らは皆、死体となっていた。
And so it happened that, in the same night, an Angel of the Lord went and struck down, in the camp of the Assyrians, one hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when he had risen up, at first light, he saw all the bodies of the dead. And withdrawing, he went away.
36 アッスリヤの王セナケリブは立ち去り、帰って行ってニネベにいたが、
And Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, returned and dwelled in Nineveh.
37 その神ニスロクの神殿で礼拝していた時、その子アデランメレクとシャレゼルが、つるぎをもって彼を殺し、ともにアララテの地へ逃げて行った。そこでその子エサルハドンが代って王となった。
And while he was worshipping in the temple of his god, Nisroch, his sons, Adram-melech and Sharezer, struck him with the sword. And they fled into the land of the Armenians. And Esarhaddon, his son, reigned in his place.
