エステル 記 9

1 十二月すなはちアダルの月の十三日王の命令と詔書のおこなはるべき時いよいよ近づける時すなはちユダヤ人の敵ユダヤ人を打伏んとまちかまへたりしに却てユダヤ人おのれを惡む者を打ふする事となりける其日に

So on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which as we have said above is called Adar, when all the Jews were designed to be massacred, and their enemies were greedy after their blood, the case being altered, the Jews began to have the upper hand, and to revenge themselves of their adversaries.

2 ユダヤ人アハシユエロス王の各州にある己の邑々に相あつまりおのれを害せんとする者どもを殺さんとせり誰も彼らに敵ることを得る者なかりき 其は一切の民ユダヤ人を畏れたればなり

And they gathered themselves together in every city, and town, and place, to lay their hands on their enemies, and their persecutors. And no one durst withstand them, for the fear of their power had gone through every people.

3 諸州の牧伯州牧方伯など凡て王の事を辨理ふ者は皆ユダヤ人をたすけたり 是モルデカイを畏るるによりてたり

And the judges of the provinces, and the governors, and lieutenants, and every one in dignity, that presided over every place and work, extolled the Jews for fear of Mardochai:

4 モルデカイは王の家にて大なる者となりその名各州にきこえわたれり斯その人モルデカイはますます大になりゆきぬ

For they knew him to be prince of the palace, and to have great power: and the fame of his name increased daily, and was spread abroad through all men’s mouths.

5 ユダヤ人すなはち刀刃をもてその一切の敵を撃て殺し減ぼしおのれを惡む者を意のままに爲したり

So the Jews made a great slaughter of their enemies, and killed them, repaying according to what they had prepared to do to them:

6 ユダヤ人またシユシヤンの城においても五百人を殺しほろぼせり

Insomuch that even in Susan they killed five hundred men, besides the ten sons of Aman the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews: whose names are these:

7 パルシヤンダタ、ダルポン、アスパタ

Pharsandatha, and Delphon, and Esphatha,

8 ポラタ、アダリヤ、アリダタ

And Phoratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,

9 パルマシタ、アリサイ、アリダイ、ワエザタ

And Phermesta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Jezatha.

10 これらの者すなはちハンメダタの子ユダヤ入の敵たるハマンの十人の子をも彼ら殺せりされどその所有物には手をかけざりき

And when they had slain them, they would not touch the spoils of their goods.

11 シユシヤンの城の内にて殺されし者の數をその日王にまうしあげければ

And presently the number of them that were killed in Susan was brought to the king.

12 王きさきエステルにいひけるはユダヤ人シユシヤンの城の内にて五百人を殺しまたハマンの十人の子をころせり王のその余の諸州においては幾何なりしぞや 汝また何か求むるところあるやかならず許さるべし尚何かねがふところあるや必らず成就らるべし

And he said to the queen: The Jews have killed five hundred men in the city of Susan, besides the ten sons of Aman: how many dost thou think they have slain in all the provinces? What askest thou more, and what wilt thou have me to command to be done?

13 エステルいひけるは王もし之を善としたまはば願くはシユシヤンにあるユダヤ人に允して明日も今日の詔旨のごとくなさしめ且ハマンの十人の子を木に懸しめたまへ

And she answered: If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews, to do tomorrow in Susan as they have done today, and that the ten sons of Aman may be hanged upon gibbets.

14 王かく爲せと命じシユシヤンにおいて詔旨を出せりマンの十人の子は木に懸らる

And the king commanded that it should be so done. And forthwith the edict was hung up in Susan, and the ten sons of Aman were hanged.

15 アダルの月の十四日にシユシヤンのユダヤ人また集まりシユシヤンの内にて三百人をころせり然れどもその所有物には手をかけざりき

And on the fourteenth day of the month Adar the Jews gathered themselves together, and they killed in Susan three hundred men: but they took not their substance.

16 王の諸州にあるその余のユダヤ人もまた相あつまり立ておのれの生命を保護しその敵に勝て安んじおのれを惡む者七萬五千人をころせり然れどもその所有には手をかけざりき

Moreover through all the provinces which were subject to the king’s dominion the Jews stood for their lives, and slew their enemies and persecutors: insomuch that the number of them that were Billed amounted to seventy-five thousand, and no man took any of their goods.

17 アダルの月の十三日にこの事をおこなひ十四日にやすみてその日に酒宴をなして喜こべり

Now the thirteenth day of the month Adar was the first day with them all of the slaughter, and on the fourteenth day they left off. Which they ordained to be kept holy day, so that all times hereafter they should celebrate it with feasting, joy, and banquets.

18 されどシユシヤンにをるユダヤ人はその十三日と十四日とにあひ集まり十五日にやすみてその日に酒宴をなして喜こべり

But they that were killing in the city of Susan, were employed in the slaughter on the thirteenth and fourteenth day of the same month: and on the fifteenth day they rested. And therefore they appointed that day to be a holy day of feasting and gladness.

19 これによりて村々のユダヤ人すなはち石垣なき邑々にすめる者はアダルの月の十四日をもて喜樂の日酒宴の日吉日となして互に物をやりとりす

But those Jews that dwelt in towns not walled and in villages, appointed the fourteenth day of the month Adar for banquets and gladness, so as to rejoice on that day, and send one another portions of their banquets and meats.

20 モルデカイこれらの事を書しるしてアハシユエロス王の諸州にをるユダヤ人に遠きにも近きにも書をおくり

And Mardochai wrote all these things, and sent them comprised in letters to the Jews that abode in all the king’s provinces, both those that lay near and those afar off,

21 アダルの月の十四日と十五日を年々にいはふことを命じ

That they should receive the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month Adar for holy days, and always at the return of the year should celebrate them with solemn honour:

22 この兩の日にユダヤ人その敵に勝て休みこの月は彼のために憂愁より喜樂にかはり悲哀より吉日にかはりたれば是らの日に酒宴をなして喜びたがひに物をやりとりし貧しき者に施與をなすべしと諭しぬ

Because on those days the Jews revenged themselves of their enemies, and their mourning and sorrow were turned into mirth and joy, and that these should be days of feasting and gladness, in which they should send one to another portions of meats; and should give gifts to the poor.

23 ここをもてユダヤ人はその已にはじめたるごとくモルデカイがかれらに書おくりしごとく行なひつづけたり

And the Jews undertook to observe with solemnity all they had begun to do at that time, which Mardochai by letters had commanded to be done.

24 アガグ人ハンメダタの子ハマンすなはちすべてのユダヤ人の敵たる者ユダヤ人を滅ぼさんと謀りプルすなはち籤を投てこれを滅ぼし絶さんとしたりしが

For Aman, the son of Amadathi of the race of Agag, the enemy and adversary of the Jews, had devised evil against them, to kill them and destroy them: and had cast Phur, that is, the lot.

25 その事王の前に明かになりし時王書をおくりて命じハマンがユダヤ人を害せんとはかりしその惡き謀計をしてハマンのかうべに歸らしめ彼とその子等を木に懸しめたり

And afterwards Esther went in to the king, beseeching him that his endeavours might be made void by the king’s letters: and the evil that he had intended against the Jews, might return upon his own head. And so both he and his sons were hanged upon gibbets.

26 このゆゑに此兩の日をそのプルの名にしたがひてプリムとなづけたり斯りしかばこの書のすべての詞によりこの事につきて見たるところ己の遇たるところに依て

And since that time these days are called Phurim, that is, of lots: because Phur, that is, the lot, was cast into the urn. And all things that were done, are contained in the volume of this epistle, that is, of this book:

27 ユダヤ人あひ定め年々その書るところにしたがひその定めたる時にしたがひてこの兩の日をまもり己とおのれの子孫および凡て已につらなる者これを行ひつづけて廃すること無く

And the things that they suffered, and that were afterwards changed, the Jews took upon themselves and their seed, and upon all that had a mind to be joined to their religion, so that it should be lawful for none to pass these days without solemnity: which the writing testifieth, and certain times require, as the years continually succeed one another.

28 この兩の日をもて代々家々州々邑々において必ず記念てまもるべき者となしこれらのプリムの日をしてユダヤ人の中に廃せらるること無らしめまたこの記念をしてその子孫の中に絶ること無らしむ

These are the days which shall never be forgot: and which all provinces in the whole world shall celebrate throughout all generations: neither is there any city wherein the days of Phurim, that is, of lots, must not be observed by the Jews, and by their posterity, which is bound to these ceremonies.

29 かくてアビハイルの女なる后エステルとユダヤ人モルデカイおほいなる力をもてプリムの第二の書を書おくりてこれを堅うす

And Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mardochai the Jew, wrote also a second epistle, that with all diligence this day should be established a festival for the time to come.

30 すなはちモルデカイ、アハシユエロスの國の百二十七州にある一切のユダヤ人に平和と眞實の言語をもて書をおくり

And they sent to all the Jews that were in the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of king Assuerus, that they should have peace, and receive truth,

31 断食と悲哀のことにつきてプリムのこれらの日を堅うしてその定めたる時を守らしむすなはちユダヤ人モルデカイと后エステルが曾てかれらに命じたるごとくまたユダヤ人等が曾てみづから己のためおよびおのれの子孫のために定めたるがごとし

And observe the days of lots, and celebrate them with joy in their proper time: as Mardochai and Esther had appointed, and they undertook them to be observed by themselves and by their seed, fasts, and cries, and the days of lots,

32 エステルの語プリムにかかはる是等の事をかたうせり是は書にしるされたり

And all things which are contained in the history of this book, which is called Esther.