ゼカリヤ書 5

1 我また目を擧て觀しに卷物の飛あり

I looked again and saw a flying scroll.

2 彼われに汝何を見るやと言ければ我言ふ我卷物の飛ぶを見る其長は二十キユビトその寛は十キユビト

“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied. “It's thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.”

3 彼またわれに言けるは是は全地の表面を往めぐる呪詛の言なり凡て竊む者は卷物のこの面に照して除かれ凡て誓ふ者は卷物の彼の面照して除かるべし

He told me, “This is the curse that is going out to all the world. Anyone who steals will be purged from society, according to one side of the scroll. Anyone who swears lies under oath will be purged from society, according to the other side of the scroll.”

4 萬軍のヱホバのたまふ我これを出せり是は竊盗者の家に入りまた我名を指て僞り誓ふ者の家に入てその家の中に宿りその木と石とを並せて盡く之を焼べしと

“I have sent the curse out and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one who swears lies in my name, declares the Lord Almighty. The curse will remain in that house, and will destroy it, both the timbers and the stones.”

5 我に語へる天の使進み來りて我に言けるは請ふ目を擧てこの出きたれる物の何なるを見よ

Then the angel I had been talking to came over to me and said, “Look. What do you see moving away?”

6 これは何なるやと我言ければ彼言ふ此出來れる者はエパ舛なり又言ふ全地において彼等の形状は是のごとしと

“What is it?” I asked. “What you see moving away is a barrel full of the sins of everyone in the country,” he replied.

7 かくて鉛の圓き蓋を取あぐれば一人の婦人エパ舛の中に坐し居る

Then the lead lid was lifted from the barrel and there was a woman sitting inside.

8 彼是は罪惡なりと言てその婦人をエパ舛の中に投いれ鉛の錘をその舛の口に投かぶらせたり

“She represents wickedness,” he said, and pushed her back inside, forcing the lead lid shut.

9 我また目を擧て觀しに婦人二人出きたれり之に鶴の翼のごとき翼ありてその翼風を含む彼等そのエパ舛を天地の間に持擧ぐ

I looked once more and saw two women flying towards me. Their wings looked like those of a stork. They picked up the barrel and flew away, high into the sky.

10 我すなはち我に語ふ天の使にむかひて彼等エパ舛を何處へ携へゆくなるやと言けるに

“Where are they taking it?” I asked the angel I was talking to.

11 彼我に言ふシナルの地にて之がために家を建んとてなり是は彼處に置られてその臺の上に立ん

“They're taking it to the land of Babylon to build a house for it. When the house is ready, the barrel will be placed at its base.”