士師記 15
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しかししばらくして、小麦の収穫の時期に、サムソンは子やぎ一匹を持って妻を訪ねた。彼は「私の妻のところ、彼女の部屋に入ろう」と言った。しかし彼女の父は彼が入るのを許さなかった。
1And a while after, when the days of the wheat harvest were at hand, Samson came, meaning to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid of the flock. And when he would have gone into her chamber as usual, her father would not suffer him, saying:
2彼女の父は言った。「あなたが彼女をひどく憎んでいるのだと、私は確信していた。それゆえ、私は彼女をあなたの仲間に与えたのだ。彼女の妹のほうが彼女より美しいではないか。どうか、彼女の代わりにその妹をめとってくれ。」
2I thought thou hadst hated her, and therefore I gave her to thy friend: but she hath a sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take her to wife instead of her.
3サムソンは彼らに言った。「今度は、私がペリシテ人に害を加えても、彼らに対して責めを負わない。」
3And Samson answered him: From this day I shall be blameless in what I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.
4サムソンは行って三百匹のきつねを捕らえ、たいまつを取り、尾と尾を向かい合わせ、二つの尾の間に一本のたいまつを置いた。
4And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the tails.
5たいまつに火をつけ、狐をペリシテ人の刈り入れ前の麦畑へ放した。積み上げた束も、立ち穂も、ぶどう畑も、オリーブ畑も焼いた。
5And setting them on fire he let the foxes go, that they might run about hither and thither. And they presently went into the standing corn of the Philistines. Which being set on fire, both the corn that was already carried together, and that which was yet standing, was all burnt, insomuch, that the flame consumed also the vineyards and the oliveyards.
6するとペリシテ人は「だれがこんなことをしたのか」と言った。人々は言った。「ティムナ人の婿サムソンだ。ティムナ人が彼の妻を取り、彼の仲間に与えたからだ。」ペリシテ人は上って来て、彼女と彼女の父を火で燃やした。
6Then the Philistines said: Who hath done this thing? And it was answered: Samson the son in law of the Thamnathite, because he took away his wife, and gave her to another, hath done these things. And the Philistines went up and burnt both the woman and her father.
7サムソンは彼らに言った。「あなたがたがこのようなことをするなら、私は必ずあなたがたに復讐する。その後で私は終わりにしよう。」
7But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.
8彼は彼らを徹底的に打ち、大きな打撃を与えた。その後、下って行き、エタムの岩の洞穴に住んだ。
8And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam.
9その後、ペリシテ人は上って来てユダに陣を敷き、レヒに広がった。
9Then the Philistines going up into the land of Juda, camped in the place which afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army was spread.
10ユダの人々は言った。「なぜあなたがたは私たちに向かって上って来たのか。」彼らは言った。「私たちはサムソンを縛り、彼が私たちにしたのと同じように彼にするために上って来た。」
10And the men of the tribe of Juda said to them: Why are you come up against us? They answered: We are come to bind Samson, and to pay him for what he hath done against us.
11そこでユダの人々三千人がエタムの岩の裂け目に下って行き、サムソンに言った。「ペリシテ人が私たちを支配していることを知らないのか。あなたは私たちに何ということをしてくれたのか。」彼は彼らに言った。「彼らが私にしたように、私も彼らにしたのだ。」
11Wherefore three thousand men of Juda, went down to the cave of the rock Etam, and said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do thus? And he said to them: As they did to me, so have I done to them.
12彼らは彼に言った。「私たちはあなたを縛り、ペリシテ人の手に渡すために下って来た。」サムソンは彼らに言った。「あなたがた自身は私を攻撃しないと、私に誓ってくれ。」
12And they said to him, We are come to bind thee and to deliver thee into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them: Swear to me, and promise me, that you will not kill me.
13彼らは彼に言った。「いいえ、私たちはあなたをしっかりと縛り、彼らの手に渡すだけである。決してあなたを殺しはしない。」彼らは二本の新しい綱で彼を縛り、岩から彼を連れ上った。
13They said: We will not kill thee: but we will deliver thee up bound. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him from the rock Etam.
14彼がレヒに来ると、ペリシテ人は彼に会い、大声を上げた。そのとき、主の霊が激しく彼に臨み、彼の腕にあった綱は火で燃やされた亜麻糸のようになり、彼を縛っていたものはその手から落ちた。
14Now when he was come to the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines shouting went to meet him, the spirit of the Lord came strongly upon him: and as the flax is wont to be consumed at the approach of fire, so the bands with which he was bound were broken and loosed.
15彼はろばの新しいあご骨を見つけ、手を伸ばしてそれを取り、それで千人を打ち倒した。
15And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass which lay there, catching it up, be slew therewith a thousand men.
16サムソンは言った。 「ろばのあご骨で、山また山。 ろばのあご骨で、私は千人を打ち倒した。」
16And he said: With the jawbone of an ass, with the jaw of the colt of asses I have destroyed them, and have slain a thousand men.
17彼が語り終えたとき、彼は手からあご骨を投げ捨てた。その場所はラマテ・レヒ と呼ばれた。
17And when he had ended these words singing, he threw the jawbone out of his hand, and called the name of that place Ramathlechi, which is interpreted the lifting up of the jawbone.
18彼は激しく渇き、主に叫んだ。「あなたは、しもべの手によってこの大いなる救いを与えてくださいました。それなのに今、私は渇いて死に、無割礼の者たちの手に落ちるのでしょうか。」
18Arid being very thirsty, he cried to the Lord, and said: Thou hast given this very great deliverance and victory into the hand of thy servant: and behold I die for thirst, and shall fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.
19神がレヒにあるくぼみを裂かれると、そこから水が湧き出た。サムソンが飲むと、力が戻り、生き返った。それでその泉はエン・ハコレと呼ばれ、今日までレヒにある。
19Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the jaw of the ass, and waters issued out of it. And when he had drank them he refreshed his spirit, and recovered his strength. Therefore the name of that place was called, The Spring of him that invoked from the jawbone, until this present day.
20彼はペリシテ人の時代に二十年の間、イスラエルをさばいた。
20And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
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