ヨナ書 3
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主の言葉が二度目にヨナに臨んだ。
1And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time, saying:
2「立て。あの大きな町ニネベへ行き、私があなたに告げる言葉をそこで叫べ。」
2Arise, and go to Ninive the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.
3そこでヨナは立ち、主の言葉に従ってニネベへ行った。ニネベは非常に大きな町で、歩いて横切るのに三日かかるほどであった。
3And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days’ journey.
4ヨナは町に入り、一日分の道のりを進んで叫んだ。「あと四十日で、ニネベは滅ぼされる！」
4And Jonas began to enter into the city one day’s journey: and he cried, and said: Yet forty days, and Ninive shall be destroyed.
5ニネベの人々は神を信じた。彼らは断食を布告し、身分の高い者から低い者まで粗布をまとった。
5And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.
6この知らせがニネベの王に届くと、王は王座から立ち上がり、王衣を脱ぎ、粗布をまとって灰の中に座った。
6And the word came to the king of Ninive; and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7王は貴族たちとともに、ニネベ中に布告を出した。「王とその貴族たちの命令である。人も家畜も、牛の群れも羊の群れも、何一つ口にしてはならない。草を食べさせても、水を飲ませてもならない。
7And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen nor sheep, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water.
8人も家畜も粗布をまとい、力の限り神に叫び求めよ。それぞれ悪い道を離れ、その手で行う暴虐を捨てよ。
8And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and cry to the Lord with all their strength, and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands.
9もしかすると神は思い直し、燃える怒りを収め、われわれは滅びずに済むかもしれない。」
9Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish?
10神は彼らの行い、すなわち彼らが悪い道から立ち返ったことをご覧になった。そこで神は彼らに災いを下すと告げていたが、それを思い直し、行われなかった。
10And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil way: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.
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