エレミヤ書 52
1 ゼデキヤは王となったとき二十一歳であったが、エルサレムで十一年世を治めた。母の名はハムタルといい、リブナのエレミヤの娘である。
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 ゼデキヤはエホヤキムがすべて行ったように、主の目の前に悪事を行った。
He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
3 たしかに、主の怒りによって、エルサレムとユダとは、そのみ前から捨て去られるようなことになった。そしてゼデキヤはバビロンの王にそむいた。
For through the LORD’s anger this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 そこで彼の治世の九年十月十日に、バビロンの王ネブカデレザルはその軍勢を率い、エルサレムにきて、これを包囲し、周囲に塁を築いてこれを攻めた。
In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
5 こうしてこの町は攻め囲まれて、ゼデキヤ王の十一年にまで及んだが、
So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
6 その四月九日になって、町の中の食糧は、はなはだしく欠乏し、その地の民は食物を得ることができなくなった。
In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
7 そして町の城壁はついに打ち破られたので、兵士たちはみな逃げ、夜のうちに、王の園の近くの、二つの城壁の間の門から町をのがれ出て、カルデヤびとが、町を攻め囲んでいるうちに、アラバの方へ落ちて行った。
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the city all around. The men of war went toward the Arabah,
8 しかしカルデヤびとの軍勢は王を追って行って、エリコの平地でゼデキヤに追いついたが、彼の軍勢がみな散って彼のそばを離れたので、
but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
9 カルデヤびとは王を捕え、ハマテの地のリブラにいるバビロンの王のもとに引いていったので、王は彼の罪を定めた。
Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.
10 すなわちバビロンの王はゼデキヤの子たちをその目の前で殺させ、ユダのつかさたちをことごとくリブラで殺させ、
The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
11 またゼデキヤの目をつぶさせた。そしてバビロンの王は彼を鎖につないでバビロンへ連れて行き、その死ぬ日まで獄屋に入れて置いた。
He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
12 五月十日に、それはバビロンの王ネブカデレザルの世の十九年であったバビロンの王に仕える侍衛の長ネブザラダンはエルサレムに、はいって、
Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.
13 主の宮と王の宮殿を焼き、エルサレムのすべての家を焼いた。彼は大きな家をみな焼きはらった。
He burned the LORD’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
14 また侍衛の長と共にいたカルデヤびとの軍勢は、エルサレムの周囲の城壁をみな取りこわした。
All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.
15 そして侍衛の長ネブザラダンは民のうちの最も貧しい者若干、そのほか町のうちに残った者、およびバビロンの王にくだった人、その他工匠たちを捕え移した。
Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the rest of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
16 しかし侍衛の長ネブザラダンはその地の最も貧しい者若干を残して、ぶどうを作る者とし、農夫とした。
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.
17 カルデヤびとはまた主の宮の青銅の柱と、洗盤の台と、青銅の海を砕いて、その青銅をことごとくバビロンへ運び、
The Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the LORD’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the LORD’s house in pieces, and carried all of their bronze to Babylon.
18 また、つぼと、十能と、心切りばさみと、鉢と、香を盛る皿および宮の勤めに用いる青銅の器をことごとく取って行った。
They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.
19 また彼らは小鉢と、心取り皿と、鉢と、つぼと、燭台と、香を盛る皿と、灌祭の鉢を取った。金で作った物は金として、銀で作った物は銀として、侍衛の長は運び去った。
The captain of the guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, as gold, and that which was of silver, as silver.
20 ソロモン王が主の宮に造った二本の柱と、一つの海と、海の下の十二の青銅の牛と、台など、このすべての物の青銅の重さは量ることもできなかった。
They took the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which King Solomon had made for the LORD’s house. The bronze of all these vessels was without weight.
21 この一本の柱の高さは十八キュビト、周囲は十二キュビトで、指四本の厚さがあり、中は、うつろであった。
As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow.
22 その上に青銅の柱頭があり、柱頭の高さは五キュビト、柱頭の周囲は網細工と、ざくろとで飾り、これらもみな青銅であった。他の柱もそのざくろも、これと同じであった。
A capital of bronze was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. The second pillar also had the same, with pomegranates.
23 その四方に九十六個のざくろがあり、周囲の網細工の上にあるざくろの数は百個であった。
There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around.
24 侍衛の長は祭司長セラヤと次席の祭司ゼパニヤと三人の門を守る者を捕え、
The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold,
25 また兵士をつかさどるひとりの役人と、町にいた王の側近の者七人と、その地の民を募る軍勢の長の書記官と、町の中にいた六十人の者を町から捕え去った。
and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the middle of the city.
26 侍衛の長ネブザラダンは、これらの人を捕えて、リブラにいるバビロンの王のもとに連れて行った。
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
27 バビロンの王は、ハマテの地のリブラで彼らを撃ち殺した。こうして、ユダは自分の地から捕え移された。
The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
28 ネブカデレザルが捕え移した民の数は次のとおりである。第七年にはユダヤ人三千二十三人。
This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Jews;
29 またネブカデレザルはその第十八年にエルサレムから八百三十二人を捕え移した。
in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons;
30 ネブカデレザルの二十三年に侍衛の長ネブザラダンは、ユダヤ人七百四十五人を捕え移した。この総数は四千六百人であった。
in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five people. All the people numbered four thousand six hundred.
31 ユダの王エホヤキンが捕え移されて後三十七年の十二月二十五日に、バビロンの王エビルメロダクはその即位の年に、ユダの王エホヤキンを獄屋から出し、そのこうべを挙げさせ、
In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison.
32 親切に彼を慰め、その位を、バビロンで共にいる王たちの位よりも高くした。
He spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
33 こうしてエホヤキンは獄屋の服を脱いだ。そして生きている間は毎日王の食卓で食事し、
and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life.
34 彼の給与としては、その死ぬ日まで一生の間、たえず日々の必要にしたがって、バビロンの王から給与を賜わった。
For his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
