ヨハネの黙示録 12
1 また天に大なる徴 見えたり。日を著たる女ありて、其の足の下に月あり、其の頭に十二の星の冠冕あり。
And a great sign was seen in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a diadem of twelve stars.
2 かれは孕りをりしが、子を産まんとして産みの苦痛と惱とのために叫べり、
She was with child; and she cried out, travailing in birth, in anguish to be delivered.
3 また天に他の徴 見えたり。視よ、大なる赤き龍あり、これに七つの頭と十の角とありて、頭には七つの冠冕あり。
And another sign was seen in heaven; and lo, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and upon his head seven diadems.
4 その尾は天の星の三分の一を引きて之を地に落せり。龍は子を産まんとする女の前に立ち、産むを待ちて其の子を食ひ盡さんと構へたり。
His tail drew a third part of the stars of the sky, and dashed them down to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman about to be delivered, so that he might devour her child when she was delivered.
5 女は男子を産めり、この子は鐵の杖もて諸種の國人を治めん。かれは神の許に、その御座の下に擧げられたり。
And she gave birth to a son, a man child, who is to shepherd all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up unto God and unto his throne.
6 女は荒野に逃げゆけり。彼處に千二百 六十日の間かれが養はるる爲に神の備へ給へる所あり。
And the woman fled into the desert, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
7 かくて天に戰爭おこれり、ミカエル及びその使たち龍とたたかふ。龍もその使たちも之と戰ひしが、
And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels went forth to war with the dragon; and the dragon also fought, and his angels;
8 勝つこと能はず、天には、はや其の居る所なかりき。
but they failed, nor was their place found any more in heaven.
9 かの大なる龍、すなわち惡魔と呼ばれ、サタンと呼ばれたる全世界をまどはす古き蛇は落され、地に落され、その使たちも共に落されたり。
Now the great dragon was thrown down - that old Serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
10 我また天に大なる聲ありて『われらの神の救と能力と國と神のキリストの權威とは、今すでに來れり。我らの兄弟を訴へ夜晝われらの神の前に訴ふるもの落されたり。
And I heard a great voice in heaven, which said. "Now it is come! the salvation and the power, The kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ! For the accuser of our brethren is thrown down, Who accused them before our God, day and night.
11 而して兄弟たちは羔羊の血と己が證の言とによりて勝ち、死に至るまで己が生命を惜まざりき。
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb, And by the word of their testimony; And they loved not their life, even unto death.
12 この故に天および天に住める者よ、よろこべ、地と海とは禍害なるかな、惡魔おのが時の暫時なるを知り、大なる憤恚をいだきて汝 等のもとに下りたればなり』と云ふを聞けり。
Therefore rejoice, O heavens, And you who dwell therein! Woe to the earth and the sea! For the devil has gone down to you in great fury, Because he knows that he has but little time."
13 かくて龍はおのが地に落されしを見て、男子を生みし女を責めたりしが、
When the dragon saw that he was hurled down to the earth, he pursued the woman who gave birth to the man child.
14 女は荒野なる己が處に飛ぶために、大なる鷲の兩の翼を與へられたれば、其處にいたり、一年、二年、また半年のあひだ蛇のまへを離れて養はれたり。
But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she might fly into the desert to her place where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 蛇はその口より水を川のごとく、女の背後に吐きて之を流さんとしたれど、
And the serpent poured water from his mouth after the woman, water like a river, so that he might cause her to be carried off by the stream.
16 地は女を助け、その口を開きて龍の口より吐きたる川を呑み盡せり。
But the earth came to the rescue of the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river that the dragon had poured forth from his mouth.
17 龍は女を怒りてその裔の殘れるもの、即ち神の誡命を守りイエスの證を有てる者に、戰鬪を挑まんとて出でゆき、 海邊の砂の上に立てり。
And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went away to make war upon the rest of her children who keep the commandments of God, and hold fast the testimony of Jesus. And he stood upon the sand of the sea.
