ヨエル書 1

1 ペトエルの子ヨエルに臨めるヱホバの言

The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

2 老たる人よ汝ら是を聽け すべて此地に住む者汝ら耳を傾けよ 汝らの世あるは汝らの先祖の世にも是のごとき事ありしや

Listen to this, elders, and pay close attention, all inhabitants of the land. Did this ever happen in your days or in the days of your fathers?

3 汝ら之を子に語り子はまた之をその子に語りその子之を後の代に語りつたへよ

Talk this over with your sons, and your sons with their sons, and their sons with another generation.

4 噬くらふ蝗虫の遺せる者は群ゐる蝗虫のくらふ所となりその遺せる者はなめつくすおほねむしのくらふ所となりその遺せる者は喫ほろぼす蝗虫の食ふ所となれり

The locust has eaten what the caterpillar has left, and the beetle has eaten what the locust has left, and the mildew has eaten what the beetle has left.

5 醉る者よ汝ら目を醒して泣け すべて酒をのむ者よ哭きさけべ あたらしき酒なんぢらの口に絶えたればなり

Rouse yourselves, you drunkards, and weep and wail, all you who delight in drinking wine; for it has been cut off from your mouth.

6 そはことなる民わが國に攻よすればなり その勢ひ強くその數はかられずその齒は獅子の齒のごとくその牙は牝獅子の牙のごとし

For a nation has ascended over my land: strong and without number. His teeth are like the teeth of a lion, and his molars are like that of a lion’s young.

7 彼等わが葡萄の樹を荒しわが無花果の樹を折りその皮をはぎはだかにして之を棄つ その枝白くなれり

He has put my vineyard into desolation, and he has pulled off the bark of my fig tree. He has stripped it bare and cast it away; its branches have become white.

8 汝ら哀哭かなしめ 貞女その若かりしときの夫のゆゑに麻布を腰にまとひて哀哭かなしむがごとくせよ

Lament like a betrothed virgin, wrapped in sackcloth at the loss of the husband of her youth.

9 素祭灌祭ともにヱホバの家に絶えヱホバに事ふる祭司等哀傷をなす

Sacrifice and libation have perished from the house of the Lord; the priests who are ministers of the Lord have mourned.

10 田は荒れ地は哀傷む 是穀物荒はて新しき酒つき油たえんとすればなり

The region has been depopulated, the soil has mourned. For the wheat has been devastated, the wine has been disfigured, the oil has languished.

11 こむぎ大麥の故をもて農夫羞ぢよ 葡萄をつくり哭けよ 田の禾稼うせはてたればなり

The farmers have been confounded, the vineyard workers have wailed over the crop and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

12 葡萄樹は枯れ無花果樹は萎れ石榴 椰子 林檎および野の諸の樹は凋みたり 是をもて世の人の喜樂かれうせぬ

The vineyard is in ruin, and the fig tree has languished. The pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the fruit tree, and all the trees of the field have withered. For joy has been thrown into disorder before the sons of men.

13 祭司よ汝ら麻布を腰にまとひてなきかなしめ 祭壇に事ふる者よ汝らなきさけべ 神に事ふる者よなんぢら來り麻布をまとひて夜をすごせ 其は素祭も灌祭も汝らの神の家に入ことあらざればなり

Priests, gird yourselves and lament. Ministers of the altars, wail. Enter, ministers of my God, lie in sackcloth. For sacrifice and libation have passed away from the house of your God.

14 汝ら斷食を定め集會を設け長老等を集め國の居民をことごとく汝らの神ヱホバの家に集めヱホバにむかひて號呼れよ

Sanctify a fast, call an assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God. And cry out to the Lord:

15 ああその日は禍なるかな ヱホバの日近く暴風のごとくに全能者より來らん

“Ah, ah, ah, the day!” For the day of the Lord is near, and it will arrive, like a devastation, before the powerful.

16 我らがまのあたりに食物絶えしにあらずや 我らの神の家に歡喜と快樂絶えしにあらずや

Has not your nourishment perished from before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

17 種は土の下に朽ち倉は壞れ廩は圯る そは穀物ほろぼされたればなり

The mules have rotted in their own manure, the barns have been demolished, the wine cellars have been destroyed, because the grain has been ruined.

18 いかに畜獸は哀み鳴くや 牛の群は亂れ迷ふ 草なければなり 羊の群もまた死喪ん

Why have the animals groaned, the herds of cattle bellowed? because there is no pasture for them. Yes, and even the flocks of sheep have been lost.

19 ヱホバよ我なんぢに向ひて呼はらん 荒野の諸の草は火にて焼け野の諸の樹は火熖にてやけつくればなり

To you, O Lord, I will cry out, because fire has devoured the beauty of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the countryside.

20 野の獸もまた汝にむかひて呼はらん 其は水の流涸はて荒野の草火にてやけつくればなり

Yes, and even the beasts of the field have gazed up at you, like the dry ground thirsting for rain, because the fountains of waters have dried up, and fire has devoured the beauty of the wilderness.