エゼキエル書 31
1 第十一年の三月一日に主の言葉がわたしに臨んだ、
And it comes to pass, in the eleventh year, in the third [month], on the first of the month, a word of YHWH has been to me, saying,
2 「人の子よ、エジプトの王パロと、その民衆とに言え、あなたはその大いなること、だれに似ているか。
“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: To whom have you been like in your greatness?
3 見よ、わたしはあなたをレバノンの香柏のようにする。麗しき枝と森の陰があり、たけが高く、その頂は雲の中にある。
Behold, Asshur, a cedar in Lebanon, Beautiful in branch, and shading bough, and high in stature, And its foliage has been between thickets.
4 水はこれを育て、大水がこれを高くする。その川々はその植えた所をめぐって流れ、その流れを野のすべての木に送る。
Waters have made it great, The deep has exalted him with its flowings, Going around its planting, And it has sent forth its conduits to all trees of the field.
5 これによってそのたけは、野のすべての木よりも高くなり、その育つとき多くの水のために枝葉は茂り、枝は伸び、
Therefore his stature has been higher than all trees of the field, And his boughs are multiplied, and his branches are long, Because of many waters in his shooting forth.
6 その枝葉に空のすべての鳥が、巣をつくり、その枝の下に野のすべての獣は子を生み、その陰にもろもろの国民は住む。
Every bird of the heavens has made a nest in his boughs, And every beast of the field has brought forth under his branches, And all great nations dwell in his shade.
7 これはその大きなことと、その枝の長いことによって美しかった。その根を多くの水に、おろしていたからである。
And he is beautiful in his greatness, In the length of his thin shoots, For his root has been by great waters.
8 神の園の香柏も、これと競うことはできない。もみの木もその枝葉に及ばない。けやきもその枝と比べられない。神の園のすべての木も、その麗しきこと、これに比すべきものはない。
Cedars have not hid him in the garden of God, Firs have not been like to his boughs, And plane-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of God has been like to him in his beauty,
9 わたしはその枝を多くして、これを美しくした。神の園にあるエデンの木は皆これをうらやんだ。
I have made him beautiful in the multitude of his thin shoots, And all trees of Eden that [are] in the garden of God envy him.
10 それゆえ、主なる神はこう言われる、これは、たけが高くなり、その頂を雲の中におき、その心が高ぶりおごるゆえ、
Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: Because that you have been high in stature, And he yields his foliage between thickets, And his heart is high in his haughtiness,
11 わたしはこれを、もろもろの国民の力ある者の手に渡す。彼はこれに対してその悪のために正しい処置をとる。わたしはこれを追い出した。
I give him into the hand of a god of nations, He deals severely with him, In his wickedness I have cast him out.
12 もろもろの国民の最も恐れている異邦人はこれを切り倒して捨てる。その枝はもろもろの山と、すべての谷とに落ち、その枝葉は砕けて、地のすべての流れにあり、地のすべての民は、その陰を離れて、これを捨てる。
And strangers cut him off, The terrible of nations, and they leave him, His thin shoots have fallen on the mountains and in all valleys, And his boughs are broken at all streams of the land, And all peoples of the land go down from his shade, and they leave him.
13 その倒れた所に、空のもろもろの鳥は住み、その枝の上に、野のもろもろの獣はいる。
Every bird of the heavens dwells on his ruin, And all beasts of the field have been on his boughs,
14 これは水のほとりのすべての木が、その高さのために誇ることなく、その頂を雲の中におくことなく、水に潤う木が、みずから高ぶり立つことのないためである。これらは皆、死に渡され、下の国に入り、穴に下る者と共に他の人々のうちにいる。
In order that none of the trees of the waters May become haughty because of their stature, Nor give their foliage between thickets, Nor any drinking waters stand up to them in their haughtiness, For all of them are given up to death, To the lower earth, In the midst of the sons of men, To those going down to the pit.
15 主なる神はこう言われる、これが陰府に下る日にわたしが淵をこれがために悲しませ、その川々をせきとめるので、大水はとどまる。わたしはレバノンを、これがために嘆かせ、野のすべての木を、これがために衰えさせる。 (Sheol h7585)
Thus said Lord YHWH: I have caused mourning in the day of his going down to Sheol, I have covered the deep over him, and diminish its flowings, And many waters are restrained, And I make Lebanon black for him, And all trees of the field [have been] a covering for him. (Sheol h7585)
16 わたしがこれを穴に下る者と共に陰府に落す時、もろもろの国民をその落ちる響きのために、打ち震えさせる。そしてエデンのすべての木、レバノンのすぐれて美しいもの、すべて水に潤うものは、下の国で慰められる。 (Sheol h7585)
I have caused nations to shake at the sound of his fall, In My causing him to go down to Sheol, With those going down to the pit, And all trees of Eden are comforted in the lower earth, The choice and good of Lebanon—All drinking waters. (Sheol h7585)
Those with him have also gone down to Sheol, To the pierced of the sword, And—his arm—they dwelt in his shade in the midst of nations. (Sheol h7585)
18 エデンの木のうちで、その栄えと大いなることで、あなたはどれに似ているのか。あなたはこのように、エデンの木と共に、下の国に落され、つるぎで殺された者と共に、割礼を受けない者のうちに住む。これがパロとその民衆であると、主なる神は言われる」。
To whom have you been thus like, In glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? And you have been brought down with the trees of Eden, To the lower earth, You lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, With the pierced of the sword. This [is] Pharaoh, and all his multitude, A declaration of Lord YHWH!”
