ヨエル書 3
1 觀よ我ユダとヱルサレムの俘囚人を歸さん その日その時
For behold in those days, and in that time when I shall bring back the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem:
2 萬國の民を集め之を携へてヨシヤパテの谷にくだりかしこにて我民我ゆづりの産なるイスラエルのために彼らをさばかん 彼らこれを國々に散してその地を分ち取りたればなり
I will gather together all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted my land.
3 彼らは籤をひきて我民を取り童子を娼妓に換へ童女を賣り酒に換て飮めり
And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink.
4 ツロ、シドンよベリシテのすべての國よ 汝ら我と何のかかはりあらんや 汝ら我がなししことに返をなさんとするや 若し我に返報をなさんとならば我忽ち迅速に汝らがなししことをもてその首に歸らしめん
But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon your own head.
5 是は汝らは我の金銀を取り我のしたふべき寶を汝らの宮にたづさへゆき
For you have taken away my silver and my gold: and my desirable and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples.
6 またユダの人とヱルサレムの人をギリシヤ人に賣りてその本國より遠く離らせたればなり
And the children of Juda, and the children of Jerusalem you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove them far off from their own country.
7 視よ我かられを起して汝らが賣たる處より出し汝らがなししことをもてその首にかへらしめん
Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads.
8 我はなんぢらの男子女子をユダの人の手に賣り彼らは之を遠き民なるシバ人に賣らん ヱホバこれを言ふ
And I will sell your sons, and your daughters by the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far off, for the Lord hath spoken it.
9 もろもろの國に宣つたへよ 戰爭の準備を爲し勇士をはげまし軍人をことごとくちかより來らしめよ
Proclaim ye this among the nations: prepare war, rouse up the strong: let them come, let all the men of war come up.
10 汝等の鋤を劍に打かへ汝らの鎌を鎗に打かへよ 弱き者も我は強しと言へ
Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades into spears. Let the weak say: I am strong.
11 四周の國々の民よ汝ら急ぎ上りて集れ ヱホバよ汝の勇士をかしこに降したまへ
Break forth, and come, all ye nations, from round about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to fall down.
12 國々の民よ起て上りヨシヤパテの谷に至れ 彼處に我座をしめて四周の國々の民をことごとく鞫かん
Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about.
13 鎌をいれよ 穀物は熟せり 來り踏めよ酒榨は盈ち甕は溢る 彼らの惡 大なればなりと
Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come and go down, for the press is full, the fats run over: for their wickedness is multiplied.
14 かまびすしきかな無數の民 審判の谷にありてかまびすし ヱホバの日 審判の谷に近づくが故なり
Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction.
15 日も月も暗くなり星その光明を失ふ
The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining.
16 ヱホバ、シオンよりよびとどろかしヱルサレムより聲をはなち天地を震ひうごかしたまふ 然れどヱホバはその民の避所イスラエルの子孫の城となりたまはん
And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem: and the heavens and the earth shall be moved, and the Lord shall be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 かくて汝ら我はヱホバ汝等の神にして我聖山シオンに住むことをしるべし ヱルサレムは聖き所となり他國の人は重ねてその中をかよふまじ
And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers shall pass through it no more.
18 その日山にあたらしき酒滴り岡に乳流れユダのもろもろの河に水流れヱホバの家より泉水流れいでてシッテムの谷に灌がん
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweetness, and the hills shall flow with milk: and waters shall flow through all the rivers of Juda: and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the torrent of thorns.
19 エジプトは荒すたれエドムは荒野とならん 是はかれらユダの子孫を虐げ辜なき者の血をその國に流したればなり
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed: because they have done unjustly against the children of Juda, and have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 されどユダは永久にすまひヱルサレムは世々に保たん
And Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to generation and generation.
21 我さきにはかれらが流しし血の罪を報いざりしが今はこれをむくいん ヱホバ、シオンに住みたまはん
And I will cleanse their blood which I had not cleansed: and the Lord will dwell in Sion.
