エステル記 4
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)Translation
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1モルデカイは起こったことをすべて知ると、衣を裂き、荒布をまとい、灰をかぶった。そして町の中へ出て行き、大声で激しく嘆き叫んだ。
1Now when Mardochai had heard these things, he rent his garments, and put on sackcloth, strewing ashes on his head: and he cried with a loud voice in the street in the midst of the city, shewing the anguish of his mind.
2彼は王の門の前まで来た。荒布をまとったまま王の門に入ることは、誰にも許されていなかったからである。
2And he came lamenting in this manner even to the gate of the palace: for no one clothed with sackcloth might enter the king’s court.
3王の命令と法令が届いたどの州でも、ユダヤ人の間に激しい悲しみが起こり、断食と泣き声と嘆きが広がった。多くの者が荒布と灰の中に身を伏せた。
3And in all provinces, towns, and places, to which the king’s cruel edict was come, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, wailing, and weeping, many using sackcloth and ashes for their bed.
4エステルの侍女たちと宦官たちが来てこのことを告げると、王妃は深く心を痛めた。彼女はモルデカイに衣服を送り、荒布を脱がせようとしたが、彼は受け取らなかった。
4Then Esther’s maids and her eunuchs went in, and told her. And when she heard it she was in a consternation: and she sent a garment, to clothe him, and to take away the sackcloth: but he would not receive it.
5そこでエステルは、自分に仕えるよう王が任命した宦官の一人ハタクを呼び、何が起こり、なぜそうなったのかをモルデカイから聞くよう命じた。
5And she called for Athach the eunuch, whom the king had appointed to attend upon her, and she commanded him to go to Mardochai, and learn of him why he did this.
6ハタクは、王の門の前にある町の広場へ出て、モルデカイのもとへ行った。
6And Athach going out went to Mardochai, who was standing in the street of the city, before the palace gate:
7モルデカイは、自分に起こったことをすべて、またハマンがユダヤ人を滅ぼすため王の宝物庫に納めると約束した銀の正確な額を彼に話した。
7And Mardochai told him all that had happened, how Aman had promised to pay money into the king’s treasures, to have the Jews destroyed.
8さらに、ユダヤ人を滅ぼすためスサで発布された法令の写しを渡し、エステルに見せて事情を説明するよう頼んだ。そして王のもとへ行き、民のために王の憐れみを求め、願い出るよう強く求めた。
8He gave him also a copy of the edict which was hanging up in Susan, that he should shew it to the queen, and admonish her to go in to the king, and to entreat him for her people.
9ハタクは戻って、モルデカイの言葉をエステルに伝えた。
9And Athach went back and told Esther all that Mardochai had said.
10エステルはハタクに、モルデカイへこう伝えるよう命じた。
10She answered him, and bade him say to Mardochai:
11「王の家臣も、王の諸州の民も皆知っています。男であれ女であれ、召されずに内庭の王のもとへ入る者には、死刑という一つの法しかありません。ただし、王が金の笏を差し伸べれば、その者は生きることができます。私はもう三十日も、王のもとへ召されていません。」
11All the king’s servants, and all the provinces that are under his dominion, know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, cometh into the king’s inner court, who is not called for, is immediately to be put to death without any delay: except the king shall hold out the golden sceptre to him, in token of clemency, that so he may live. How then can I go in to the king, who for these thirty days now have not been called unto him?
12エステルの言葉がモルデカイに伝えられた。
12And when Mardochai had heard this,
13するとモルデカイは、エステルにこう返すよう命じた。「自分は王宮にいるから、ほかのユダヤ人が滅びても自分だけは逃れられるなどと考えてはならない。
13He sent word to Esther again, saying: Think not that thou mayst save thy life only, because thou art in the king a house, more than all the Jews:
14この時にあなたが黙っているなら、ユダヤ人には別の所から助けと救いが起こる。しかし、あなたと父の家は滅びる。あなたが王妃の位に就いたのは、まさにこの時のためかもしれない。だれがそれを知ろう。」
14For if thou wilt now hold thy peace, the Jews shall be delivered by some other occasion: and thou, and thy father’s house shall perish. And who knoweth whether thou art not therefore come to the kingdom, that thou mightest be ready in such a time as this?
15エステルはモルデカイに、こう返事をするよう命じた。
15And again Esther sent to Mardochai in these words:
16「行って、スサにいるすべてのユダヤ人を集め、私のために断食してください。三日三晩、食べることも飲むこともしないでください。私も侍女たちと同じように断食します。その後、法に背くことになりますが、王のもとへ行きます。滅びるなら、滅びよう。」
16Go, and gather together all the Jews whom thou shalt find in Susan, and pray ye for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights: and I with my handmaids will fast in like manner, and then I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and to danger.
17モルデカイは去り、エステルが命じたことをすべて行った。
17So Mardochai went, and did all that Esther had commanded him.
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