Jeremiah 40

1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.

侍衞の長ネブザラダンかのバビロンにとらへ移さるるヱルサレムとユダの人々の中にヱレミヤを鏈につなぎおきてこれを執へゆきけるが遂にこれを放ちてラマを去しめたりその後ヱホバの言ヱレミヤにのぞめり

2 The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, "The LORD your God pronounced this evil on this place;

茲に侍衞の長ヱレミヤを召てこれにいひけるは汝の神ヱホバ此處にこの災あらんことを言り

3 and the LORD has brought it, and done according as he spoke: because you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

ヱホバこれを降しその云し如く行へり汝らヱホバに罪を犯しその聲に聽したがはざりしによりてこの事汝らに來りしなり

4 Now, look, I release you this day from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, do not: look, all the land is before you; where it seems good and right to you to go, there go."

視よ我今日汝の手の鏈を解て汝を放つ汝もし我とともにバビロンにゆくことを善とせば來れわれ汝を善くあしらはん汝もし我と偕にバビロンにゆくを惡とせば留れ視よこの地は皆汝の前に在り汝の善とする所汝の心に合ふところに往べし

5 Now while he had not yet gone back, "Go back then," he said, "to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go." So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go.

ヱレミヤいまだ答へざるに彼またいひけるは汝バビロンの王がユダの諸邑の上にたてて有司となせしシヤパンの子アヒカムの子なるゲダリヤの許に歸り彼とともに民の中に居れ或は汝の善とおもふところにゆくべしと侍衞の長彼に食糧と禮物をとらせて去しめたり

6 Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.

ヱレミヤすなはちミヅパに往きてアヒカムの子ゲダリヤに詣りその地に遺れる民のうちに彼と偕にをる

7 Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon;

茲に田舍にある軍勢の長等および彼らに屬する人々バビロンの王がアヒカムの子ゲダリヤを立てこの地の有司となし男女嬰孩および國の中のバビロンに移されざる貧者を彼にあづけたることをききしかば

8 then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

即ちネタニヤの子イシマエルとカレヤの子ヨハナンとヨナタンおよびタンホメテの子セラヤとネトパ人なるエパイの諸子と或マアカ人の子ヤザニヤおよび彼らに屬する人々ミヅパにゆきてゲダリヤの許にいたる

9 Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, "Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

シヤパンの子アヒカムの子なるゲダリヤ彼らと彼らに屬する人々に誓ひていひけるは汝らカルデヤ人に事ることを怖るる勿れこの地に住てバビロンの王に事へなば汝ら幸幅ならん

10 As for me, look, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who shall come to us: but you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken."

我はミヅパに居り我らに來らんところのカルデヤ人に事へん汝らは葡萄酒と菓物と油とをあつめて之を器に蓄へ汝らが獲るところの諸邑に住めと

11 Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the people of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;

又モアブとアンモン人の中およびエドムと諸の邦にをるところのユダヤ人はバビロンの王がユダに人を遺したるシヤパンの子アヒカムの子なるゲダリヤを立てこれが有司となしたることを聞り

12 then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

是においてそのユダヤ人皆その追やられし諸の處よりかへりてユダの地のミヅパに來りゲダリヤに詣れり而して多くの葡萄酒と菓物をあつむ

13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,

又カレヤの子ヨハナンおよび田舍にをりし軍勢の長たちミヅパにきたりてゲダリヤの許にいたり

14 and said to him, "Do you know that Baalis the king of the people of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?" But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them.

彼にいひけるは汝アンモン人の王バアリスが汝を殺さんとてネタニヤの子イシマエルを遣せしを知るやと然どアヒカムの子ゲダリヤこれを信ぜざりしかば

15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, "Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?"

カレヤの子ヨハナン、ミヅパにて密にゲダリヤに語りて言けるは請ふわれゆきて人知ずにネタニヤの子イシマエルを殺さんいかで彼汝を殺し汝に集れるユダ人を散しユダの遺れる者を滅すべけんやと

16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, "You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael."

然るにアヒカムの子ゲダリヤ、カレヤの子ヨハナンにいひけるは汝この事をなすべからず汝イシマエルにつきて僞をいふなり