オバデヤ書 1
1 オバデヤの幻。主なる神はエドムについてこう言われる、われわれは主から出たおとずれを聞いた。ひとりの使者が諸国民のうちにつかわされて言う、「立てよ、われわれは立ってエドムと戦おう」。
This is a message that Yahweh our God gave to me, Obadiah, about the Edom [people-group]. Yahweh our God has told me this about [the people of] Edom: “I, Yahweh, have sent a messenger to other nations, telling them to prepare to go and attack Edom.”
2 見よ、わたしはあなたを国々のうちで小さい者とする。あなたはひどく卑しめられる。
And Yahweh says this to the people of Edom: “I will soon cause you to become the weakest and most despised nation [on the earth].
3 岩のはざまにおり、高い所に住む者よ、あなたの心の高ぶりは、あなたを欺いた。あなたは心のうちに言う、「だれがわたしを地に引き下らせる事ができるか」。
Your [capital city] is high in the rocky cliffs, and you are very proud; you think that you are safe from being attacked by your enemies [RHQ], but you [IDM] have deceived yourselves.
4 たといあなたは、わしのように高くあがり、星の間に巣を設けても、わたしはそこからあなたを引きおろすと主は言われる。
And I tell you that even if [you had wings and] could fly higher than eagles fly, and if you could make your homes among the stars, I would bring you [crashing] down from there.
5 もし盗びとがあなたの所に来、強盗が夜きても、彼らは、ほしいだけ盗むではないか。ああ、あなたは全く滅ぼされてしまう。もしぶどうを集める者があなたの所に来たなら、彼らはなお余りの実を残さないであろうか。
When thieves break into someone’s house during the night, they certainly [RHQ] steal only the things that they want. And people who pick grapes always [RHQ] leave a few grapes on the vines. But your country will be completely destroyed!
6 ああ、エサウはかすめられ、その隠しておいた宝は探り出される。
Everything that is valuable will be taken away. [Your enemies] will find and take away even the valuable things that you have hidden.
7 あなたと契約を結んだ人々はみな、あなたを欺き、あなたを国境に追いやった。あなたと同盟を結んだ人々はあなたに勝った。あなたの信頼する友はあなたの下にわなを設けた、しかしその事を悟らない。
All (your allies/nations who promised to help you) will turn against you, and they will force you to leave your country/land. Those with whom you have peace now will trick/deceive you and defeat you. Those who eat meals with you now are planning to trap you, and [then they will say to you], ‘You are not [RHQ] as clever [as you thought you were]!’
8 主は言われる、その日には、わたしはエドムから知者を滅ぼし、エサウの山から悟りを断ち除かないだろうか。
I, Yahweh, declare that at the time that I destroy Edom, I will punish the men who live in those cliffs who [thought that they] were wise.
9 テマンよ、あなたの勇士は驚き恐れる。人はみな殺されてエサウの山から断ち除かれる。
The soldiers from Teman [town] will become terrified; all you people who are descendants of Esau will be (wiped out/killed).
10 あなたはその兄弟ヤコブに暴虐を行ったので、恥はあなたをおおい、あなたは永遠に断たれる。
You acted cruel in a cruel way toward your relatives who are descendants of Jacob, [the twin brother of your ancestor Esau]. So now you will be disgraced forever; you will be completely destroyed.
11 あなたが離れて立っていた日、すなわち異邦人がその財宝を持ち去り、外国人がその門におし入り、エルサレムをくじ引きにした日、あなたも彼らのひとりのようであった。
Foreigners entered the gates of Jerusalem and (cast lots/threw small stones that were marked) to decide what valuable things they would take away; but you were as bad as those foreigners, because you just stood there [and did not help the Israelis].
12 しかしあなたは自分の兄弟の日、すなわちその災の日をながめていてはならなかった。あなたはユダの人々の滅びの日に、これを喜んではならず、その悩みの日に誇ってはならなかった。
You should not have (gloated/been happy) about the disaster that the Israelis were experiencing. You should not have been happy when their towns were ruined. You should not have made fun [of them] when they were suffering.
13 あなたはわが民の災の日に、その門にはいってはならず、その災の日にその苦しみをながめてはならなかった。またその災の日に、その財宝に手をかけてはならなかった。
They are my people, so you should not have entered their [city] gates when they were experiencing those disasters and you should not have laughed at them. And you should not have taken away their [valuable] possessions.
14 あなたは分れ道に立って、そののがれる者を切ってはならなかった。あなたは悩みの日にその残った者を敵にわたしてはならなかった。
You should not have stood at crossroads to catch those who were [trying to] escape. You should not have [captured them and] put them into the hands of [their enemies] when they were experiencing those disasters.”
15 主の日が万国の民に臨むのは近い。あなたがしたようにあなたもされる。あなたの報いはあなたのこうべに帰する。
“There will soon be the time when I, Yahweh, will judge [and punish] all the nations. And you [people of Edom] will experience the same [disasters] that you caused [others to experience]. The same evil things that you have done to others will happen to you.
16 あなたがたがわが聖なる山で飲んだように、周囲のもろもろの民も飲む。すなわち彼らは飲んでよろめき、かつてなかったようになる。
[My people in Jerusalem have been punished] because I was very angry with them. [It is as though] [MET] they drank [a cup of very bitter liquid] on Zion, my sacred hill. But [I] will punish [MET] all the other nations even more severely, and cause them to disappear completely.
17 しかしシオンの山には、のがれる者がいて、聖なる所となる。またヤコブの家はその領地を獲る。
But some [people in Jerusalem will escape], and Jerusalem will become a very holy/sacred place. Then the descendants of Jacob will [conquer and] possess again the land that truly belongs to them.
18 ヤコブの家は火となり、ヨセフの家は炎となり、エサウの家はわらとなる。彼らはその中に燃えて、これを焼く。エサウの家には残る者がないようになると主は言われた。
The descendants [MTY] of Jacob and his son Joseph will be like [MET] a fire, and the people [MTY] of Edom will be like [MET] stubble that will be completely burned in that fire. Not one person will remain alive. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it.”
19 ネゲブの人々はエサウの山を獲、セフェラの人々はペリシテびとを獲る。また彼らはエフライムの地、およびサマリヤの地を獲、ベニヤミンはギレアデを獲る。
The Israeli people [who live] in the southern desert are the ones who will capture Edom. And those [who live in] the western foothills will capture the Phoenicia [region] and the areas of Ephraim and Samaria. And people of the tribe of Benjamin will conquer the Gilead [region].
20 ハラにいるイスラエルの人々の捕われ人は、フェニキヤをザレパテまで取り、セパラデにいるエルサレムの捕われ人は、ネゲブの町々を獲る。
Those who were (exiled in/forced to go to) [Babylon] will [return to their land] [and] capture the Phoenicia [region] as far north as Zarephath [on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea]. People of Jerusalem who were captured and taken to Sardis, [the capital city of the Lydia region], will capture the towns in the southern desert.
21 こうして救う者はシオンの山に上って、エサウの山を治める。そして王国は主のものとなる。
The army of Jerusalem will attack Edom and conquer it, and Yahweh will be their king.
