< エゼキエル書 22 >
Moreover the LORD’s word came to me, saying,
2 「人の子よ、あなたはさばくのか。血を流すこの町をさばくのか。それならこの町にそのもろもろの憎むべき事を示して、
“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
3 言え。主なる神はこう言われる、自分のうちに血を流して、その刑罰の時をまねき、偶像を造ってその身を汚す町よ、
You shall say, ‘The Lord GOD says: “A city that sheds blood within herself, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
4 あなたはその流した血によって罪を得、その造った偶像によって汚れ、あなたの日を近づかせ、あなたの年の定めの時はきた。それゆえわたしはあなたをもろもろの国民のあざけりとなし、万国の物笑いとする。
You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made! You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
5 あなたに近い者も、遠い者も、汚れと、混乱に満ちているあなたをあざける。
Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.
6 見よ、あなたのうちのイスラエルの君たちは、おのおのその力にしたがって、血を流そうとしている。
“‘“Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
7 父母はあなたのうちで卑しめられ、寄留者はあなたのうちで虐待をうけ、みなしごと、やもめとはあなたのうちで悩まされている。
In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
8 あなたはわたしの聖なるものを卑しめ、わたしの安息日を汚した。
You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
9 人をののしって血を流そうとする者は、あなたのうちにおり、人々はあなたのうちで、山の上で食事をし、あなたのうちで、みだらなおこないをし、
Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
10 あなたのうちで、父の裸を現し、あなたのうちで、汚れのうちにある女を犯す。
In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
11 またあなたのうちに、その隣の妻と憎むべき事を行う者があり、淫行をもって、その嫁を汚す者があり、自分の父の娘である自分の姉妹を犯す者があり、
One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
12 また血を流そうとして、あなたのうちで、まいないを取る者がある。あなたは利息と高利とを取り、しえたげによって、あなたの隣り人のものをかすめ、そしてわたしを忘れてしまったと、主なる神は言われる。
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord GOD.
13 それゆえ見よ、あなたが得た不正の利の事、およびあなたのうちにある流血の事に対して、わたしは手を打ちならす。
“‘“Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been shed within you.
14 わたしがあなたを攻める日には、あなたの勇気は、これに耐え得ようか。またあなたの手は強くあり得ようか。主なるわたしはこれを宣言し、これをなす。
Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken it, and will do it.
15 わたしはあなたを、もろもろの国民のうちに散らし、国々の間にまき、そしてあなたから汚れを除く。
I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will purge your filthiness out of you.
16 わたしはあなたによって、もろもろの国民の前に汚される。そしてあなたはわたしが主であることを知る」。
You will be profaned in yourself in the sight of the nations. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”’”
The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
18 「人の子よ、イスラエルの家はわたしに対して、かなかすとなった。彼らはすべて炉の中の銀、青銅、すず、鉄、鉛のかなかすとなった。
“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.
19 それゆえ、主なる神はこう言われる、あなたがたは皆かなかすとなったゆえ、見よ、わたしはあなたがたをエルサレムの中に集める。
Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.
20 人が銀、青銅、鉄、鉛、すずなどを炉の中に集め、これに火を吹きかけて溶かすように、わたしは怒りと憤りとをもって、あなたがたを集め入れて溶かす。
As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there and melt you.
21 すなわち、わたしはあなたがたを集め、わたしの怒りの火を、あなたがたに吹きかける。あなたがたはその中で溶ける。
Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.
22 銀が炉の中で溶けるように、あなたがたもその中で溶ける。そしてあなたがたは主なるわたしが、あなたがたの上に、わたしの怒りを注いだことを知るようになる」。
As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out my wrath on you.’”
The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
24 「人の子よ、これに言え、あなたは怒りの日に清められず、また雨の降らない地である。
“Son of man, tell her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed nor rained on in the day of indignation.’
25 その中の君たちは、獲物を裂くほえるししのような者で、彼らは人々を滅ぼし、宝と尊い物とを取り、そのうちに、やもめの数をふやす。
There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it.
26 その祭司たちはわが律法を犯し、聖なる物を汚した。彼らは聖なる物と汚れた物とを区別せず、清くない物と清い物との違いを教えず、わが安息日を無視し、こうしてわたしは彼らの間に汚されている。
Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them.
27 その中にいる君たちは、獲物を裂くおおかみのようで、血を流し、不正の利を得るために人々を滅ぼす。
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
28 その預言者たちは、水しっくいでこれを塗り、偽りの幻を見、彼らに偽りを占い、主が語らないのに『主なる神はこう言われる』と言う。
Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.
29 国の民はしえたげを行い、奪うことをなし、乏しい者と貧しい者とをかすめ、不法に他国人をしえたぐ。
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
30 わたしは、国のために石がきを築き、わたしの前にあって、破れ口に立ち、わたしにこれを滅ぼさせないようにする者を、彼らのうちに尋ねたが得られなかった。
“I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.
31 それゆえ、わたしはわが怒りを彼らの上に注ぎ、わが憤りの火をもって彼らを滅ぼし、彼らのおこないを、そのこうべに報いたと、主なる神は言われる」。
Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads,” says the Lord GOD.