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)
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1主の言葉が二度目にヨナに臨んだ。
1And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah 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。」
2'Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and make unto it the proclamation 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。
3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding 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 Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he proclaimed, and said: 'Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.'
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 people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
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 tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him 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 through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying: 'Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, 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。
8but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God; yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence 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 knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from His fierce anger, that we perish not?'
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 turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, which He said He would do unto them; and He did it not.
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