申命記 32
1 「天よ、耳を傾けよ、わたしは語る、地よ、わたしの口の言葉を聞け。
“Listen to me, [all you who are in the] heavens, and [all you who are on the] earth, listen to what I say [MTY].
2 わたしの教は雨のように降りそそぎ、わたしの言葉は露のようにしたたるであろう。若草の上に降る小雨のように、青草の上にくだる夕立ちのように。
I wish/desire that my teaching will fall on you like rain drops or be like dew on the ground, and be like a gentle rain on the young plants, like showers on the grass.
3 わたしは主の名をのべよう、われわれの神に栄光を帰せよ。
I will praise Yahweh [MTY]. And [all you people should] tell others that our God is very great.
4 主は岩であって、そのみわざは全く、その道はみな正しい。主は真実なる神であって、偽りなく、義であって、正である。
He is like a rock [MET] [under which we are protected]; [everything] that he does is perfect and completely just/fair [DOU]. He always does what he says that he will do; he never does anything that is wrong.
5 彼らは主にむかって悪を行い、そのきずのゆえに、もはや主の子らではなく、よこしまで、曲ったやからである。
“But [you Israeli people] have been very unfaithful to him; because of your sins, you no longer [deserve to] be his children. You are extremely wicked and deceitful [DOU].
6 愚かな知恵のない民よ、あなたがたはこのようにして主に報いるのか。主はあなたを生み、あなたを造り、あなたを堅く立てられたあなたの父ではないか。
You foolish and senseless [DOU] people, (is this the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you]?/this is certainly not the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you].) [RHQ] He is your father; he created you [RHQ]; he caused you to become a nation.
7 いにしえの日を覚え、代々の年を思え。あなたの父に問え、彼はあなたに告げるであろう。長老たちに問え、彼らはあなたに語るであろう。
“Think about [what happened] long ago; consider what happened to your ancestors. Ask your parents, and they will inform you; ask the older people, and they will tell you.
8 いと高き者は人の子らを分け、諸国民にその嗣業を与えられたとき、イスラエルの子らの数に照して、もろもろの民の境を定められた。
When God, who is greater than any other god, long ago divided the people into groups, he assigned to the nations their land. He determined where each people-group should live and (assigned to/chose for) each people-group a god/angel.
9 主の分はその民であって、ヤコブはその定められた嗣業である。
But Yahweh decided that we would be his people; he chose [us, the descendants of] Jacob, to belong to him.
10 主はこれを荒野の地で見いだし、獣のほえる荒れ地で会い、これを巡り囲んでいたわり、目のひとみのように守られた。
“He saw [our ancestors] when they were in a desert, wandering in a land (that was desolate/where no people lived). He protected them and took care of them, as every person takes good care of his own eyes. [SIM, IDM]
11 わしがその巣のひなを呼び起し、その子の上に舞いかけり、その羽をひろげて彼らをのせ、そのつばさの上にこれを負うように、
[Yahweh protected his people] just like an eagle encourages its babies [to fly] and flutters over them [MET], spreading its wings and catching them [if they start to fall].
12 主はただひとりで彼を導かれて、ほかの神々はあずからなかった。
Yahweh was the only one who led them; no other foreign god helped him.
13 主は彼に地の高き所を乗り通らせ、田畑の産物を食わせ、岩の中から蜜を吸わせ、堅い岩から油を吸わせ、
“[After they entered the land that Yahweh promised to give to them], Yahweh enabled them to rule the hilly areas; they ate the crops that grew in the fields. They found honey in the rocks, and their olive trees [MTY] grew [even] in stony ground.
14 牛の凝乳、羊の乳、小羊と雄羊の脂肪、バシャンの牛と雄やぎ、小麦の良い物を食わせられた。またあなたはぶどうのしるのあわ立つ酒を飲んだ。
The cows gave them plenty of curds/yogurt, the goats gave them plenty of milk, they had well-fed sheep and cattle, they had very good wheat, and they made delicious wine from their grapes.
15 しかるにエシュルンは肥え太って、足でけった。あなたは肥え太って、つややかになり、自分を造った神を捨て、救の岩を侮った。
“The Israeli people became rich and prosperous, but then they rebelled against God; they abandoned him, the one who created them, the one who powerfully saves them.
16 彼らはほかの神々に仕えて、主のねたみを起し、憎むべきおこないをもって主の怒りをひき起した。
So he abandoned them because they started to worship other/strange gods. Because of their worshiping disgusting idols, he became angry.
17 彼らは神でもない悪霊に犠牲をささげた。それは彼らがかつて知らなかった神々、近ごろ出た新しい神々、先祖たちの恐れることもしなかった者である。
They offered sacrifices to gods who were [really] demons, gods that their ancestors had never known; they offered sacrifices to gods that they had recently found out about, gods whom your ancestors had never revered.
18 あなたは自分を生んだ岩を軽んじ、自分を造った神を忘れた。
They forgot [the true] God, the one who protects them [MET], the one who created them and caused them to live.
19 主はこれを見、そのむすこ、娘を怒ってそれを捨てられた。
“When Yahweh saw that [they had abandoned him], he became angry, so he rejected [the Israeli people, who are like] his sons and daughters.
20 そして言われた、『わたしはわたしの顔を彼らに隠そう。わたしは彼らの終りがどうなるかを見よう。彼らはそむき、もとるやから、真実のない子らである。
He said, ‘They are very wicked/stubborn people, very unfaithful; so I will no longer help them, and then I will watch and see what happens to them.
21 彼らは神でもない者をもって、わたしにねたみを起させ、偶像をもって、わたしを怒らせた。それゆえ、わたしは民ともいえない者をもって、彼らにねたみを起させ、愚かな民をもって、彼らを怒らせるであろう。
They made me very angry because of their worshiping idols, which are not really gods; they have caused me to be [jealous [MET] because I want them to worship only me]. So now, in order to cause them to become jealous, I will send [to attack them an army of] a nation of worthless and foolish people.
I will be very angry, and I will destroy them like a fire that will burn on the earth and all the way down to the place where dead people are [MET]; that fire will destroy the earth and everything that grows on it, and it will even burn what is down under the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 わたしは彼らの上に災を積みかさね、わたしの矢を彼らにむかって射つくすであろう。
I will cause them to experience many disasters; [they will feel as though] [MET] I am shooting all my arrows at them.
24 彼らは飢えて、やせ衰え、熱病と悪い疫病によって滅びるであろう。わたしは彼らを獣の歯にかからせ、地に這うものの毒にあたらせるであろう。
They will die because of being hungry and because of having hot fevers and because of terrible diseases; I will send wild animals to attack [MTY] them, and poisonous snakes to bite [MTY] them.
25 外にはつるぎ、内には恐れがあって、若き男も若き女も、乳のみ子も、しらがの人も滅びるであろう。
Outside [their houses, their enemies] will kill them [MTY] with swords, and in their homes, [their enemies will cause] them to be terrified. Their enemies will kill young men and young women, and they will kill infants and old people with gray hair.
26 わたしはまさに言おうとした、「彼らを遠く散らし、彼らの事を人々が記憶しないようにしよう」。
I wanted to scatter the Israeli people to distant countries in order that no one would ever remember them.
27 しかし、わたしは敵が誇るのを恐れる。あだびとはまちがえて言うであろう、「われわれの手が勝ちをえたのだ。これはみな主がされたことではない」』。
But [if I did that], their enemies would wrongly boast that they were the ones who had [gotten rid of my people]; they would say, “We [SYN] are the ones who defeated them; it was not Yahweh who has done all these things.”’
28 彼らは思慮の欠けた民、そのうちには知識がない。
You Israelis are a nation of people who do not have any sense. None of you is wise.
29 もし、彼らに知恵があれば、これをさとり、その身の終りをわきまえたであろうに。
If you were wise, you would understand [why you would be punished]; you would have realized what was going to happen to you.
30 彼らの岩が彼らを売らず、主が彼らをわたされなかったならば、どうして、ひとりで千人を追い、ふたりで万人を敗ることができたであろう。
[You would have realized] why 1,000 [of your soldiers] would be defeated by only one [of the enemy soldiers], and why two of your enemies would chase away 10,000 [Israeli soldiers]. [You would realize that this would happen] only if God, the one who always defended you [MET], had allowed your enemies to defeat you, because he had abandoned you.
31 彼らの岩はわれらの岩に及ばない。われらの敵もこれを認めている。
Your enemies know that their gods are not powerful like Yahweh, our God, [so their gods could not have defeated us Israelis].
32 彼らのぶどうの木は、ソドムのぶどうの木から出たもの、またゴモラの野から出たもの、そのぶどうは毒ぶどう、そのふさは苦い。
Your enemies are like [MET] grapevines planted near [the ruins of] Sodom and Gomorrah [cities]; the grapes from those vines are bitter and poisonous;
33 そのぶどう酒はへびの毒のよう、まむしの恐ろしい毒のようである。
the wine [from those grapes] is like the poison of snakes [DOU].
34 これはわたしのもとにたくわえられ、わたしの倉に封じ込められているではないか。
[“Yahweh says], ‘I know [RHQ] [what I have planned to do to the Israeli people and to their enemies], and those plans are so secure [that it as though he locked them up] [MET].
35 彼らの足がすべるとき、わたしはあだを返し、報いをするであろう。彼らの災の日は近く、彼らの破滅は、すみやかに来るであろう。
I am the one who will get revenge and pay those enemies back for what they have done [to my people], at the right time for them to be punished [IDM]; they will soon experience disasters, and I will punish/destroy them quickly.’
36 主はついにその民をさばき、そのしもべらにあわれみを加えられるであろう。これは彼らの力がうせ去り、つながれた者もつながれない者も、もはやいなくなったのを、主が見られるからである。
“But Yahweh will see that you who are truly his people, who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and he will be merciful to you. And he will see that you are helpless, and that there are very few of you, slaves or free people, who are still alive.
37 そのとき主は言われるであろう、『彼らの神々はどこにいるか、彼らの頼みとした岩はどこにあるか。
Then Yahweh will ask his people, ‘Where are the gods that you thought would protect you [MET]?
38 彼らの犠牲のあぶらを食い、灌祭の酒を飲んだ者はどこにいるか。立ちあがってあなたがたを助けさせよ、あなたがたを守らせよ。
You gave to those gods the best parts of the animals that you sacrificed, and you poured out wine for them to drink. So, they should begin to help you; they should be the ones who will protect you!
39 今見よ、わたしこそは彼である。わたしのほかに神はない。わたしは殺し、また生かし、傷つけ、またいやす。わたしの手から救い出しうるものはない。
“But now you will realize that I, only I, am God; there is no other god who is [a real] god. I am the one who can kill people and who can cause people to live; I can wound people, and I can heal people, and there is no one who can prevent me from doing those things.
40 わたしは天にむかい手をあげて誓う、「わたしは永遠に生きる。
I raise my hand toward heaven and solemnly declare that just as sure as I live forever,
41 わたしがきらめくつるぎをとぎ、手にさばきを握るとき、わたしは敵にあだを返し、わたしを憎む者に報復するであろう。
that when I sharpen my sword, as I [SYN] prepare to punish people, I will get revenge on my enemies; I will pay back those who hate me.
42 わたしの矢を血に酔わせ、わたしのつるぎに肉を食わせるであろう。殺された者と捕えられた者の血を飲ませ、敵の長髪の頭の肉を食わせるであろう」』。
I will kill all [of my enemies] with a sword; it will be as though I had arrows that will be covered with their blood. I will kill [MTY] all those whom I capture and cut off their leaders’ heads.’
43 国々の民よ、主の民のために喜び歌え。主はそのしもべの血のために報復し、その敵にあだを返し、その民の地の汚れを清められるからである」。
“You people of all nations, you as well as his people should praise Yahweh, because Yahweh gets revenge on those who kill the people who serve him; and he cleanses his people’s land which has become defiled because of their sins.”
44 モーセとヌンの子ヨシュアは共に行って、この歌の言葉を、ことごとく民に読み聞かせた。
Joshua and Moses/I recited the words of that song while the Israeli people were listening.
45 モーセはこの言葉を、ことごとくイスラエルのすべての人に告げ終って、
When they/we finished reciting to the Israeli people the words of this song,
46 彼らに言った、「あなたがたはわたしが、きょう、あなたがたに命じるこのすべての言葉を心におさめ、子供たちにもこの律法のすべての言葉を守り行うことを命じなければならない。
Moses/I said, “Never forget all these commands that I have been giving you today. Teach these laws to your children, in order that they will faithfully obey all of them.
47 この言葉はあなたがたにとって、むなしい言葉ではない。これはあなたがたのいのちである。この言葉により、あなたがたはヨルダンを渡って行って取る地で、長く命を保つことができるであろう」。
These instructions are very important [LIT]. If [you obey] them, you will live a long time in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan [River] to occupy.”
48 この日、主はモーセに言われた、
On that same day, Yahweh said to Moses/me,
49 「あなたはエリコに対するモアブの地にあるアバリム山すなわちネボ山に登り、わたしがイスラエルの人々に与えて獲させるカナンの地を見渡たせ。
“Go to the Abarim Mountain range [here] in the Moab region, across from Jericho. Climb Nebo Mountain, and look [toward the west] to see Canaan land, the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people.
50 あなたは登って行くその山で死に、あなたの民に連なるであろう。あなたの兄弟アロンがホル山で死んでその民に連なったようになるであろう。
You will die on that mountain [EUP, DOU], like your [older] brother Aaron died on Hor Mountain.
51 これはあなたがたがチンの荒野にあるメリバテ・カデシの水のほとりで、イスラエルの人々のうちでわたしにそむき、イスラエルの人々のうちでわたしを聖なるものとして敬わなかったからである。
You will die because both of you disobeyed me in the presence of the Israeli people, when you all were at Meribah Springs near Kadesh [town] in the Zin Desert. You did not honor and respect me in the presence of the Israeli people in the way that I deserve because I am God.
52 それであなたはわたしがイスラエルの人々に与える地を、目の前に見るであろう。しかし、その地に、はいることはできない」。
[When you are on that mountain where I told you to go], you will see in the distance in front of you the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people, but you will not enter it.”
