エゼキエル書 28
1 主の言葉がわたしに臨んだ、
[Then] Yahweh gave me another message. [He said]:
2 「人の子よ、ツロの君に言え、主なる神はこう言われる、あなたは心に高ぶって言う、『わたしは神である、神々の座にすわって、海の中にいる』と。しかし、あなたは自分を神のように賢いと思っても、人であって、神ではない。
“You human, give to the king of Tyre this message from [me], Yahweh the Lord: ‘You have very proudly claimed, “I am a god! I sit on a throne of a god [in a city on an island] in the sea!” You boast that you are a god; but you are only a man, not a god.
3 見よ、あなたはダニエルよりも賢く、すべての秘密もあなたには隠れていない。
[You think that] you are wiser than Daniel was, [and you think that] you can understand every secret.
4 あなたは知恵と悟りとによって富を得、金銀を倉にたくわえた。
By being wise and understanding [a lot], you have become [very] rich; you have acquired much gold and silver for your treasuries.
5 あなたは大いなる貿易の知恵によってあなたの富を増し、その富によってあなたの心は高ぶった。
[Yes, it is true that] by trading wisely, you have been enabled to become very rich, and because you are rich, you have become very proud.
6 それゆえ、主なる神はこう言われる、あなたは自分を神のように賢いと思っているゆえ、
Therefore, this is what Yahweh the Lord says: “Because you think that you are as wise as a god,
7 見よ、わたしは、もろもろの国民の最も恐れている異邦人をあなたに攻めこさせる。彼らはつるぎを抜いて、あなたが知恵をもって得た麗しいものに向かい、あなたの輝きを汚し、
I will [now] bring a foreign [army] to attack your [country], an army that causes other nations to be terrified. They will pull out their swords to strike you, [you who think that] [IRO] you have marvelous/great wisdom, and they will destroy all your beautiful things.
8 あなたを穴に投げ入れる。あなたは海の中で殺された者のような死を遂げる。
They will bring you down to your grave; you will die violently like [MET] those who died in the sea.
9 それでもなおあなたは、『自分は神である』と、あなたを殺す人々の前で言うことができるか。あなたは自分を傷つける者の手にかかっては、人であって、神ではないではないか。
Then you will certainly not [RHQ] say to those who are killing you, 'I am a god!' [because they will know that] you are not a god; you are only a man.
10 あなたは異邦人の手によって割礼を受けない者の死を遂げる。これはわたしが言うのであると、主なる神は言われる」。
You will die like other people who are unacceptable to me die, killed by foreigners.” [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it.’”
11 また主の言葉がわたしに臨んだ、
Yahweh also gave me this message:
12 「人の子よ、ツロの王のために悲しみの歌をのべて、これに言え。主なる神はこう言われる、あなたは知恵に満ち、美のきわみである完全な印である。
“You human, sing a sad/funeral song about the king of Tyre. Say to him, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says: [“You thought that] [IRO] you were completely perfect, extremely wise and handsome.
13 あなたは神の園エデンにあって、もろもろの宝石が、あなたをおおっていた。すなわち赤めのう、黄玉、青玉、貴かんらん石、緑柱石、縞めのう、サファイヤ、ざくろ石、エメラルド。そしてあなたの象眼も彫刻も金でなされた。これらはあなたの造られた日に、あなたのために備えられた。
You [had a wonderful life, as though] you were in my [beautiful] garden in Eden. Your [clothes] were decorated with many [HYP] kinds of very valuable stones— ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, turquoise, and beryl [stones]. Those stones were set/placed in gold [mountings]. They were prepared for you on the day that you were born.
14 わたしはあなたを油そそがれた守護のケルブと一緒に置いた。あなたは神の聖なる山にいて、火の石の間を歩いた。
I appointed [DOU] you to be like [MET] a strong angel to guard the people. [It was as though I put] you on my holy mountain, and you walked among fiery stones.
15 あなたは造られた日から、あなたの中に悪が見いだされた日まではそのおこないが完全であった。
You were completely good in all that you did, from the day that you were created/born, until you [started to] do wicked things.
16 あなたの商売が盛んになると、あなたの中に暴虐が満ちて、あなたは罪を犯した。それゆえ、わたしはあなたを神の山から汚れたものとして投げ出し、守護のケルブはあなたを火の石の間から追い出した。
[Then] you became busy trading things, and you started to act violently, and you sinned. So I caused you to be disgraced; and the angel who was guarding you forced you to leave my holy mountain, forced you to leave your place among those fiery stones.
17 あなたは自分の美しさのために心高ぶり、その輝きのために自分の知恵を汚したゆえに、わたしはあなたを地に投げうち、王たちの前に置いて見せ物とした。
You were extremely proud because you were very handsome. Because you loved beautiful things, you did things that wise people do not do. [So] I threw you to the ground, and allowed [other] kings who saw you to laugh at you.
18 あなたは不正な交易をして犯した多くの罪によってあなたの聖所を汚したゆえ、わたしはあなたの中から火を出してあなたを焼き、あなたを見るすべての者の前であなたを地の上の灰とした。
By committing many sins and by trading things dishonestly, you caused your places of worship to become unacceptable to me. So I caused a fire [to burn down your city]. [Your city] was burned completely; the people who were watching it saw that only ashes remained on the ground.
19 もろもろの民のうちであなたを知る者は皆あなたについて驚く。あなたは恐るべき終りを遂げ、永遠にうせはてる」。
All the people who knew what your [city was like previously] were appalled. Now [your city] has disappeared, and it will not exist any more.”’”
20 主の言葉がわたしに臨んだ、
[Then] Yahweh gave me another message. [He said],
21 「人の子よ、あなたの顔をシドンに向け、これに向かって預言して、
“You human, turn toward Sidon [city], and declare the terrible things that will happen to it.
22 言え。主なる神はこう言われる、シドンよ、見よ、わたしはあなたの敵となる、わたしはあなたのうちで栄えをあらわす。わたしがシドンのうちにさばきをおこない、そのうちにわたしの聖なることをあらわす時、彼らはわたしが主であることを知る。
Give [the people of Sidon] this message from [me], Yahweh the Lord: ‘I am your enemy, [you people of] Sidon, and by what I do to you, I will reveal that I am very great/glorious. When I punish you and reveal that I am holy, everyone who is watching that will know that it is I, Yahweh, [who have the power to do what I say that I will do].
23 わたしは疫病をこれに送り、そのちまたに流血を送る。その四方からこれに臨むつるぎによって殺される者がその中に倒れる時、彼らはわたしが主であることを知る。
I will send a plague upon you, and I will send [enemies to come and] kill [MTY] you in your streets. They will attack you from every direction, and your people will be slaughtered inside the walls of your city. Then everyone will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].'
24 イスラエルの家には、もはや刺すいばらはなく、これを卑しめたその周囲の人々のうちには、苦しめるとげもなくなる。こうして彼らはわたしが主であることを知るようになる。
No longer will those who live near you people of Israel [hurt you] like [MET] painful briers and sharp thorns [hurt people]. And then the Israeli people will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].”
25 主なる神はこう言われる、わたしがイスラエルの家の者を、その散らされたもろもろの民の中から集め、もろもろの国民の目の前で、彼らにわたしの聖なることをあらわす時、彼らはわたしが、わがしもべヤコブに与えた地に住むようになる。
And this is [also] what Yahweh the Lord says: “Some day the people of Israel will live in their own land [again], the land that I gave to Jacob, who [also] served me. I will gather them from [distant] countries where I have scattered them. And I will reveal to the nations that I am holy among my people.
26 彼らはそこに安らかに住み、家を建て、またぶどう畑を作る。かつて彼らを卑しめたすべての隣り人たちに対して、わたしがさばきを行う時、彼らは安らかに住む。こうして彼らは、わたしが彼らの神、主であることを知る」。
My people will live safely in Israel; they will build houses and plant vineyards. And when I punish the nearby nations that despised them, they will know that it is I, Yahweh their God, [who has done it].”
