エステル記 9
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Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)
World English Bible
1第十二の月、すなわちアダルの月の十三日、王の命令と法令が実行される日が来た。ユダヤ人の敵は彼らを打ち負かそうと望んでいたが、事態は逆転し、ユダヤ人が自分たちを憎む者を打ち負かした。
1Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it turned out that the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),
2ユダヤ人はアハシュエロス王の全州にある自分たちの町々に集まり、害を加えようとする者たちに手を下した。誰も彼らの前に立つことができなかった。ユダヤ人への恐れがすべての民をとらえたからである。
2the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people.
3諸州の高官、総督、長官、王の事務をつかさどる者たちは皆、ユダヤ人を助けた。モルデカイへの恐れが彼らをとらえたからである。
3All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.
4モルデカイは王宮で重んじられ、その名声は全州に広まった。このモルデカイという人は、ますます勢力を増していった。
4For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.
5ユダヤ人は剣で敵をことごとく打ち、殺し、滅ぼし、自分たちを憎む者を思うままにした。
5The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.
6スサの宮殿で、ユダヤ人は五百人を殺して滅ぼした。
6In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
7パルシャンダタ、ダルフォン、アスパタ、
7They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
8ポラタ、アダルヤ、アリダタ、
8Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
9パルマシュタ、アリサイ、アリダイ、ワエザタ、
9Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,
10すなわち、ユダヤ人の敵ハメダタの子ハマンの十人の息子を殺した。しかし略奪品には手を伸ばさなかった。
10the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
11その日、スサの宮殿で殺された者の数が王に報告された。
11On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.
12王は王妃エステルに言った。「ユダヤ人はスサの宮殿で五百人を殺して滅ぼし、ハマンの十人の息子も殺した。王のほかの州では、どれほどのことをしただろう。さて、あなたの願いは何か。かなえてやろう。さらに何を求めるのか。そのとおりにしよう。」
12The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done.”
13エステルは答えた。「王がよしとされるなら、スサのユダヤ人に、明日も今日の法令どおりに行うことをお許しください。また、ハマンの十人の息子を木柱に掛けさせてください。」
13Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
14王はそのようにせよと命じた。法令がスサで発布され、ハマンの十人の息子は木に掛けられた。
14The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.
15スサのユダヤ人はアダルの月の十四日にも集まり、スサで三百人を殺した。しかし略奪品には手を伸ばさなかった。
15The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
16王の諸州にいたほかのユダヤ人も集まり、命を守り、敵を退けて安息を得た。彼らを憎む者七万五千人を殺したが、略奪品には手を伸ばさなかった。
16The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
17これはアダルの月の十三日のことである。十四日には休み、その日を祝宴と喜びの日とした。
17This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
18しかしスサのユダヤ人は十三日と十四日に集まり、十五日に休んで、その日を祝宴と喜びの日とした。
18But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
19それゆえ、城壁のない町々に住む地方のユダヤ人は、アダルの月の十四日を喜びと祝宴の祝いの日とし、互いに食べ物を贈り合う日としている。
19Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a holiday, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.
20モルデカイはこれらの出来事を書き記し、近くにも遠くにも、アハシュエロス王の全州にいるすべてのユダヤ人へ書状を送った。
20Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both near and far,
21そして毎年、アダルの月の十四日と十五日を守るよう定めた。
21to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,
22それはユダヤ人が敵を退けて安息を得た日々であり、悲しみが喜びに、嘆きが祝いの日に変わった月であった。彼らはその日々を祝宴と喜びの日とし、互いに食べ物を贈り合い、貧しい者に贈り物をする日とした。
22as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.
23ユダヤ人は、自分たちが始めたこの習慣と、モルデカイが書き送ったことを受け入れた。
23The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,
24すべてのユダヤ人の敵であるアガグ人ハメダタの子ハマンが、ユダヤ人を滅ぼそうと企て、彼らを打ち砕き、絶やすためにプル、すなわちくじを投げたからである。
24because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast “Pur”, that is the lot, to consume them and to destroy them;
25しかしこのことが王に知られると、王は書状によって、ハマンがユダヤ人に対して企てた悪い計略を彼自身の頭上に返し、彼と息子たちを木に掛けるよう命じた。
25but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
26このため、プルという言葉にちなんで、これらの日はプリムと呼ばれた。この書状に記されたすべてのこと、彼らがこの件について見たこと、そして彼らの身に起こったことに基づき、
26Therefore they called these days “Purim”, from the word “Pur.” Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,
27ユダヤ人は自分たちと子孫、また彼らに加わるすべての者のために、毎年この二日を、記されたとおり、定められた時に必ず守ることを定め、義務として引き受けた。
27the Jews established and imposed on themselves, on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail that they would keep these two days according to what was written and according to its appointed time every year;
28これらの日は、すべての世代、すべての家族、すべての州、すべての町で覚えられ、守られなければならない。プリムの日がユダヤ人の間から廃れることなく、その記憶が子孫から消え去ることのないためである。
28and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor their memory perish from their offspring.
29アビハイルの娘である王妃エステルとユダヤ人モルデカイは、プリムについてのこの第二の書状を確定するため、全権をもって書き送った。
29Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.
30モルデカイは、アハシュエロスの王国百二十七州のすべてのユダヤ人に、平和と真実の言葉を記した書状を送った。
30He sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus with words of peace and truth,
31そして、ユダヤ人モルデカイと王妃エステルが定めたとおり、またユダヤ人が自分たちと子孫のため、断食と嘆きについて定めたとおり、プリムの日々をその定められた時に守ることを確定した。
31to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants in the matter of the fastings and their mourning.
32エステルの命令によってプリムに関するこれらの事柄は確定され、書物に記された。
32The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
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