エレミヤ書 34
1 バビロンの王ネブカデレザルがその全軍と、彼に従っている地のすべての国の人々、およびもろもろの民を率いて、エルサレムとその町々を攻めて戦っていた時に、主からエレミヤに臨んだ言葉、
The word that has been to Jeremiah from YHWH—and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his force, and all kingdoms of the land of the dominion of his hand, and all the peoples are fighting against Jerusalem, and against all its cities—saying:
2 「イスラエルの神、主はこう言われる、行ってユダの王ゼデキヤに告げて言いなさい、『主はこう言われる、見よ、わたしはこの町をバビロンの王の手に渡す。彼は火でこれを焼く。
“Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: Go, and you have spoken to Zedekiah king of Judah, and have said to him, Thus said YHWH: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he has burned it with fire,
3 あなたはその手をのがれることはできない、必ず捕えられてその手に渡される。あなたはまのあたりバビロンの王を見、顔と顔を合わせて彼と語る。それからバビロンへ行く』。
and you do not escape out of his hand, for you are certainly caught, and you are given into his hand, and your eyes see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth speaks with your mouth, and you enter Babylon.
4 しかしユダの王ゼデキヤよ、主の言葉を聞きなさい。主はあなたの事についてこう言われる、『あなたはつるぎで死ぬことはない。
Only, hear a word of YHWH, O Zedekiah king of Judah—thus said YHWH to you: You do not die by sword,
5 あなたは安らかに死ぬ。民はあなたの先祖であるあなたの先の王たちのために香をたいたように、あなたのためにも香をたき、またあなたのために嘆いて「ああ、主君よ」と言う』。わたしがこの言葉をいうのであると主は言われる」。
you die in peace, and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who have been before you, so they make a burning for you; and, Oh, lord, they lament for you, for the word I have spoken—a declaration of YHWH.”
6 そこで預言者エレミヤはこの言葉をことごとくエルサレムでユダの王ゼデキヤに告げた。
And Jeremiah the prophet speaks all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
7 その時バビロンの王の軍勢はエルサレム、および残っているユダのすべての町、すなわちラキシとアゼカを攻めて戦っていた。それはユダの町々のうちに、これらの堅固な町がなお残っていたからである。
and the forces of the king of Babylon are fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that are left—against Lachish, and against Azekah, for these have been left among the cities of Judah, cities of fortresses.
8 ゼデキヤ王がエルサレムにいるすべての民と契約を立てて、彼らに釈放のことを告げ示した後に、主からエレミヤに臨んだ言葉。
The word that has been to Jeremiah from YHWH, after the making of a covenant by King Zedekiah with all the people who [are] in Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them,
9 その契約はすなわち人がおのおのそのヘブルびとである男女の奴隷を解放し、その兄弟であるユダヤ人を奴隷としないことを定めたものであった。
to each send out his manservant, and each his maidservant—the Hebrew and the Hebrewess—free, so as not to lay service on them—on any Jew, a brother, a man;
10 この契約をしたつかさたちと、すべての民は人がおのおのその男女の奴隷を解放し、再びこれを奴隷としないということに聞き従って、これを解放したが、
and all the heads listen, and all the people who have come into the covenant to each send forth his manservant and each his maidservant free, so as not to lay service on them anymore, indeed, they listen, and send them away;
11 後に心を翻し、解放した男女の奴隷をひきかえさせ、再びこれを従わせて奴隷とした。
and they turn afterward, and cause the menservants and the maidservants to return, whom they had sent forth free, and they subdue them for menservants and for maidservants.
12 そこで主の言葉が主からエレミヤに臨んだ、
And there is a word of YHWH to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying,
13 「イスラエルの神、主はこう言われる、わたしはあなたがたの先祖をエジプトの地、その奴隷であった家から導き出した時、彼らと契約を立てて言った、
“Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day of My bringing them forth from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants, saying,
14 『あなたがたの兄弟であるヘブルびとで、あなたがたに身を売り、六年の間あなたがたに仕えた者は、六年の終りに、あなたがたおのおのがこれを解放しなければならない。あなたがたは彼を解放して、あなたがたに仕えることをやめさせなければならない』。ところがあなたがたの先祖たちはわたしに聞き従わず、またその耳を傾けなかった。
At the end of seven years you each send forth his brother, the Hebrew, who is sold to you, and has served you six years, indeed, you have sent him forth from you free: and your fathers did not listen to Me, nor inclined their ear.
15 しかしあなたがたは今日、心を改め、おのおのその隣り人に釈放のことを告げ示して、わたしの見て正しいとすることを行い、かつわたしの名をもってとなえられる家で、わたしの前に契約を立てた。
And today you turn back and you do that which is right in My eyes, to each proclaim liberty to his neighbor, and you make a covenant before Me in the house over which My Name is called.
16 ところがあなたがたは再び心を翻して、わたしの名を汚し、おのおの男女の奴隷をその願いのままに解放したのをひきかえさせ、再びこれを従わせて、あなたがたの奴隷とした。
And you turn back, and defile My Name, and you each cause his manservant and each his maidservant, whom he had sent forth free (at their pleasure), to return, and you subdue them to be for menservants and for maidservants to you.”
17 それゆえに、主はこう仰せられる、あなたがたがわたしに聞き従わず、おのおのその兄弟とその隣に釈放のことを告げ示さなかったので、見よ、わたしはあなたがたのために釈放を告げ示して、あなたがたをつるぎと、疫病と、ききんとに渡すと主は言われる。わたしはあなたがたを地のもろもろの国に忌みきらわれるものとする。
Therefore, thus said YHWH: “You have not listened to Me to proclaim freedom, each to his brother, and each to his neighbor; behold, I am proclaiming to you liberty,” a declaration of YHWH, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine, and I have given you for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth.
18 わたしの契約を破り、わたしの前に立てた契約の定めに従わない人々を、わたしは彼らが二つに裂いて、その二つの間を通った子牛のようにする。
And I have given the men who are transgressing My covenant, who have not established the words of the covenant that they have made before Me, by the calf, that they have cut in two, and pass through between its pieces—
19 すなわち二つに分けた子牛の間を通ったユダのつかさたち、エルサレムのつかさたちと宦官と祭司と、この地のすべての民を、
heads of Judah, and heads of Jerusalem, the officers, and the priests, and all the people of the land who had passed through between the pieces of the calf—
20 わたしはその敵の手と、その命を求める者の手に渡す。その死体は空の鳥と野の獣の食物となる。
indeed, I have given them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their soul, and their carcass has been for food to the bird of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth.
21 わたしはまたユダの王ゼデキヤと、そのつかさたちをその敵の手、その命を求める者の手、あなたがたを離れて去ったバビロンの王の軍勢の手に渡す。
And I give Zedekiah king of Judah and his heads into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their soul, and into the hand of the forces of the king of Babylon that are going up from off you.
22 主は言われる、見よ、わたしは彼らに命じて、この町に引きかえしてこさせる。彼らはこの町を攻めて戦い、これを取り、火を放って焼き払う。わたしはユダの町々を住む人のない荒れ地とする」。
Behold, I am commanding,” a declaration of YHWH, “and have brought them back to this city, and they have fought against it, and captured it, and burned it with fire, and I make the cities of Judah a desolation—without inhabitant.”
