士師記 2
1 ヱホバの使者ギルガルよりボキムに上りていひけるは我汝等をエジプトより上らしめわが汝らの先祖に誓ひたる地に携へ來れりまた我いひけらくわれ汝らと締べる契約を絶てやぶることあらじ
And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the place of weepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised that I would not make void my covenant with you for ever:
2 汝らはこの國の民と契約を締ぶべからずかれらの祭壇を毀つべしとしかるに汝らはわが聲に從はざりき汝ら如何なれば斯ることをなせしや
On condition that you should not make a league with the inhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you would not hear my voice: why have you done this?
3 我またいひけらくわれ汝らの前より彼らを追ふべからずかれら反て汝等の肋を刺す荊棘とならんまた彼らの神々は汝等の罟となるべし
Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your face: that you may have enemies, and their gods may be your ruin.
4 ヱホバの使これらの言をイスラエルのすべての子孫に語しかば民聲をあげて哭ぬ
And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, they lifted up their voice, and wept.
5 故に其所の名をボキム（哭者）と呼ぶかれら彼所にてヱホバに祭物を獻げたり
And the name of that place was called, The place of weepers, or of tears: and there they offered sacrifices to the Lord.
6 ヨシユア民を去しめたればイスラエルの子孫おのおのその領地におもむきて地を獲たり
And Josue sent away the people, and the children of Israel went every one to his own possession to hold it:
7 ヨシユアの世にありし間またヨシユアより後に生きのこりたる長老等の世にありしあひだ民はヱホバに事へたりこの長老等はヱホバのかつてイスラエルのために成したまひし諸の大なる行爲を見しものなり
And they served the Lord all his days, and the days of the ancients, that lived a long time after him, and who knew all the works of the Lord, which he had done for Israel.
8 ヱホバの僕ヌンの子ヨシユア百十歳にて死り
And Josue the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being a hundred and ten years old,
9 衆人エフライムの山のテムナテヘレスにあるかれらの産業の地においてガアシ山の北にこれを葬れり
And they buried him in the borders of his possession in Thamnathsare in mount Ephraim, on the north side of mount Gaas.
10 かくてまたその時代のものことごとくその先祖のもとにあつめられその後に至りて他の時代おこりしが是はヱホバを識ずまたそのイスラエルのために爲したまひし行爲をも識ざりき
And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord, and the works which he had done for Israel.
11 イスラエルの子孫ヱホバのまへに惡きことを作してバアリムにつかへ
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim.
12 かつてエジプトの地よりかれらを出したまひしその先祖の神ヱホバを棄てて他の神すなはちその四周なる國民の神にしたがひ之に跪づきてヱホバの怒を惹起せり
And they left the Lord the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt: and they followed strange gods, and the gods of the people that dwelt round about them, and they adored them: and they provoked the Lord to anger.
13 即ちかれらヱホバをすててバアルとアシタロテに事へたれば
Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth.
14 ヱホバはげしくイスラエルを怒りたまひ掠むるものの手にわたして之を掠めしめかつ四周なるもろもろの敵の手にこれを賣りたまひしかばかれらふたたびその敵の前に立つことを得ざりき
And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them into the hands of plunderers: who took them and sold them to their enemies, that dwelt round about: neither could they stand against their enemies:
15 かれらいづこに往くもヱホバの手これに災をなしぬ是はヱホバのいひたまひしごとくヱホバのこれに誓ひたまひしごとしここにおいてかれら惱むこと甚だしかりしが
But whithersoever they meant to go, the hand of the Lord was upon them, as he had said, and as he had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed.
16 ヱホバ士師を立てたまひたればかれらこれを掠むるものの手よりすくひ出したり
And the Lord raised up judges, to deliver them from the hands of those that oppressed them: but they would not hearken to them,
17 然るにかれらその士師にもしたがはず反りて他の神を慕て之と淫をおこなひ之に跪き先祖がヱホバの命令に從がひて歩みたることろの道を頓に離れ去りてその如くには行はざりき
Committing fornication with strange gods, and adoring them. They quickly forsook the way, in which their fathers had walked: and hearing the commandments of the Lord, they did all things contrary.
18 かれらのためにヱホバ士師を立てたまひし時に方りてはヱホバつねにその士師とともに在しその士師の世に在る間はヱホバかれらを敵の手よりすくひ出したまへり此はかれらおのれを虐げくるしむるものありしを呻きかなしめるによりてヱホバ之を哀れみたまひたればなり
And when the Lord raised them up judges, in their days he was moved to mercy, and heard the groanings of the afflicted, and delivered them from the slaughter of the oppressors.
19 されどその士師の死しのちまた戻きて先祖よりも甚だしく邪曲を行ひ他の神にしたがひてこれに事へ之に跪きておのれの行爲を息めずその頑固なる路を離れざりき
But after the judge was dead, they returned, and did much worse things than their fathers had done, following strange gods, serving them and adoring them. They left not their own inventions, and the stubborn way, by which they were accustomed to walk.
20 是をもてヱホバはげしくイスラエルをいかりていひたまはく此民はわがかつてその列祖に命じたる契約を犯し吾聲に從がはざるがゆゑに
And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said: Behold this nation hath made void my covenant, which I had made with their fathers, and hath despised to hearken to my voice:
21 我もまたいまよりはヨシユアがその死しときに存しおけるいづれの國民をもかれらのまへより遂ひはらはざるべし
I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left, when he died:
22 此は我イスラエルがその先祖の守りしごとくヱホバの道を守りてこれに歩むやいなやを試みんがためなりと
That through them I may try Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord, and walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.
23 ヱホバはこれらの國民を遂はらふことを速にせずして之を遺しおきてヨシユアの手に付したまはざりしなり
The Lord therefore left all these nations, and would not quickly destroy them, neither did he deliver them into the hands of Josue.
