Esther 8
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)
1On that day king Assuerus gave the house of Aman, the Jews’ enemy, to queen Esther, and Mardochai came in before the king. For Esther had confessed to him that he was her uncle.
1その日、アハシュエロス王は、ユダヤ人の敵ハマンの家を王妃エステルに与えた。モルデカイも王の前に出た。エステルが、彼は自分の身内であると王に明かしたからである。
2And the king took the ring which he had commanded to be taken again from Aman, and gave it to Mardochai. And Esther set Mardochai over her house.
2王はハマンから取り戻した印章の指輪を外し、モルデカイに与えた。エステルはモルデカイをハマンの家の管理者とした。
3And not content with these things, she fell down at the king’s feet and wept, and speaking to him besought him, that he would give orders that the malice of Aman the Agagite, and his most wicked devices which he had invented against the Jews, should be of no effect.
3エステルは再び王の前で語り、その足もとにひれ伏した。そして涙ながらに、アガグ人ハマンの悪意と、彼がユダヤ人に対して企てた計略を取り除いてくださるよう願った。
4But he, as the manner was, held out the golden sceptre with his hand, which was the sign of clemency: and she arose up and stood before him,
4王がエステルに金の笏を差し伸べると、エステルは立ち上がって王の前に立った。
5And said: If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and my request be not disagreeable to him, I beseech thee, that the former letters of Aman the traitor and enemy of the Jews, by which he commanded that they should be destroyed in all the king’s provinces, may be reversed by new letters.
5彼女は言った。「王がよしとされ、私が王の好意を受け、このことが王に正しいと見え、また私が王の心にかなうなら、アガグ人ハメダタの子ハマンが王の全州にいるユダヤ人を滅ぼすために書いた書状を取り消す文書をお書きください。
6For how call I endure the murdering and slaughter of my people?
6どうして私は、自分の民に災いが降りかかるのを見ていられましょう。どうして自分の同胞が滅ぼされるのを見ていられましょう。」
7And king Assuerus answered Esther the queen, and Mardochai the Jew: I have given Aman’s house to Esther, and I have commanded him to be hanged on a gibbet, because he durst lay hands on the Jews.
7アハシュエロス王は王妃エステルとユダヤ人モルデカイに言った。「見よ、私はハマンの家をエステルに与えた。また、ハマンはユダヤ人を滅ぼそうとしたため、木柱に掛けられた。
8Write ye therefore to the Jews, as it pleaseth you, in the king’s name, and seal the letters with my ring. For this was the custom, that no man durst gainsay the letters which were sent in the king’s name, and were sealed with his ring.
8あなたがたは、ユダヤ人のためによいと思うことを王の名で書き、王の印章の指輪で封印せよ。王の名で書かれ、王の印章の指輪で封印された文書は、誰にも取り消せないからである。」
9Then the king’s scribes and secretaries were called for (now it was the time of the third month which is called Siban) the three and twentieth day of the month, and letters were written, as Mardochai had a mind, to the Jews, and to the governors, and to the deputies, and to the judges, who were rulers over the hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India even to Ethiopia: to province and province, to people and people, according to their languages and characters, and to the Jews, according as they could read and hear.
9そこで第三の月、すなわちシワンの月の二十三日に、王の書記官たちが召集された。モルデカイの命じたことがすべて、インドからエチオピアに至る百二十七州のユダヤ人、総督、長官、諸州の高官に宛てて書かれた。それぞれの州にはその文字で、それぞれの民にはその言語で、ユダヤ人にもその文字とその言語で記された。
10And these letters which were sent in the king’s name, were sealed with his ring, and sent by posts: who were to run through all the provinces, to prevent the former letters with new messages.
10モルデカイはアハシュエロス王の名で書き、王の印章の指輪で封印した。そして王室の駿馬に乗る急使たちに書状を託した。
11And the king gave orders to them, to speak to the Jews in every city, and to command them to gather themselves together, and to stand for their lives, and to kill and destroy all their enemies with their wives and children and all their houses, and to take their spoil.
11その書状で王は、各町のユダヤ人が集まって命を守り、彼らを攻撃する民や州のすべての武装勢力を、その子どもや女たちもろとも滅ぼし、殺し、絶やし、その財産を略奪することを許した。
12And one day of revenge was appointed through all the provinces, to wit, the thirteenth of the twelfth month Adar.
12その日は、アハシュエロス王の全州で同じ一日、すなわち第十二の月、アダルの月の十三日と定められた。
13And this was the content of the letter, that it should be notified in all lands and peoples that were subject to the empire of king Assuerus, that the Jews were ready to be revenged of their enemies.
13この文書の写しは、すべての民に公示される法令として各州で発布され、ユダヤ人がその日に敵へ報復する備えをするよう命じた。
14So the swift posts went out carrying the messages, and the king’s edict was hung up in Susan.
14王室の駿馬に乗る急使たちは、王命に促され、急いで出発した。法令はスサの宮殿でも発布された。
15And Mardochai going forth out of the palace, and from the king’s presence, shone in royal apparel, to wit, of violet and sky colour, wearing a golden crown on his head, and clothed with a cloak of silk and purple. And all the city rejoiced and was glad.
15モルデカイは青と白の王服を着て、大きな金の冠をかぶり、上等の亜麻布と紫の外套をまとって、王の前から出て来た。スサの町は歓声を上げ、喜びに満ちた。
16But to the Jews a new light seemed to rise, joy, honour, and dancing.
16ユダヤ人には光と喜び、歓喜と誉れがあった。
17And in all peoples, cities, and provinces, whithersoever the king’s commandments came, there was wonderful rejoicing, feasts and banquets, and keeping holy day: insomuch that many of other nations and religion, joined themselves to their worship and ceremonies. For a great dread of the name of the Jews had fallen upon all.
17王の命令と法令が届いたどの州、どの町でも、ユダヤ人には喜びと歓喜、祝宴と祝いの日があった。地の諸民族の多くがユダヤ人となった。ユダヤ人への恐れが彼らをとらえたからである。
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