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
Now in the twelfth month (that is the month of Adar), on the thirteenth day, when the king’s command and his decree was about to put into execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, then the tables were turned so that the Jews had the mastery over those who hated them.
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
The Jews gathered together in the cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to attack anyone who tried to harm them. No one could withstand them, for the fear of them had fallen on all the peoples.
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
All the princes of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and they who attended to the king’s business, helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.
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 Mordecai was great in the king’s palace, and as his power increased his fame spread throughout all the provinces.
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
The Jews put all their enemies to the sword and, with slaughter and destruction, they did what they wanted to those who hated 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
In Susa the capital the Jews killed five hundred people.
7 パルシヤンダタ、ダルポン、アスパタ
They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
8 ポラタ、アダリヤ、アリダタ
Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
9 パルマシタ、アリサイ、アリダイ、ワエザタ
Parmashta, Arisia, Aridai, and Vaizatha,
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
the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy; but they did not take any plunder.
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
On that day the number of those who were slain in Susa was brought before 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 the king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have slain five hundred people in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It will be granted to you. What is your request? It will 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
“If it please the king,” Esther said, “let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to this day’s decree. Let the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
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 it to be done. A decree was given out in Susa and they hung the bodies of Haman’s ten sons on the gallows.
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
The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar. They killed three hundred people in Susa. But they did not take any plunder.
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
And the other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together and fought for their lives and overcame their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand who hated them. But they did not take any plunder.
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
This was on the thirteenth day of Adar. On the fourteenth day of the month Adar the Jews rested and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.
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 the Jews in Susa gathered on both the thirteenth and fourteenth day – and rested on the fifteenth day of the same month and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.)
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
This is why the Jews who live in the country villages keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of rejoicing and feasting and a holiday, and a day in which they send gifts of food to each other.
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
Mordecai had these things recorded. He sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both near and far.
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
He told them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and also the fifteenth day every year,
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
as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned from sorrow to gladness and from mourning into a feast day. They should make them days of feasting and gladness and of sending gifts of food to each other and of 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
So what the Jews had begun to do they adopted as a custom, just as Mordecai had written to them.
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 Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted to destroy them. He had cast ‘Pur’, that is the lot, intending to consume them and to destroy them.
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
But when the matter came before the king, he gave written orders that his wicked plot, which he had planned against the Jews, should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
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
This is why these days are called Purim, after the word Pur. Therefore because of all the words of this letter, as well as all they had seen, and all they had experienced,
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
the Jews established and made it a custom for them, for their descendants, and for all who should join them, so that it might not be repealed, that they should continue to observe these two days as feasts each year,
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
and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city. And these days of Purim should not pass away from among the Jews nor the remembrance of them disappear among their descendants.
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
Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, gave Mordecai the Jew all authority in writing to confirm this second letter of Purim.
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
He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, wishing them peace and security,
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
to confirm these days of Purim in their proper times, to be observed as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had directed and as the Jews had proscribed for themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry of lamentation.
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 the commands of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the records.
