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)
World English Bible
1主の言葉が二度目にヨナに臨んだ。
1The LORD’s word came to 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 to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
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 to Nineveh, according to the LORD’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.
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！」
4Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will 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。
5The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their 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。
6The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself 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。
7He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; 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 animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way and from the violence that is in his 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 knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might 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。
10God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.
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