ヨナ書 1

1 ヱホバの言アミタイの子ヨナに臨めりいはく

And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying:

2 起てかの大なる邑ニネベに往きこれを呼はり責よ そは其惡わが前に上り來ればなりと

Rise and go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it. For its malice has ascended before my eyes.

3 然るにヨナはヱホバの面をさけてタルシシへ逃れんと起てヨツパに下り行けるが機しもタルシシへ往く舟に遇ければその價値を給へヱホバの面をさけて偕にタルシシへ行んとてその舟に乗れり

And Jonah rose in order to flee from the face of the Lord to Tarshish. And he went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. And he paid its fare, and he went down into it, in order to go with them to Tarshish from the face of the Lord.

4 時にヱホバ大風を海の上に起したまひて烈しき颺風海にありければ舟は幾んど破れんとせり

But the Lord sent a great wind into the sea. And a great tempest took place in the sea, and the ship was in danger of being crushed.

5 かかりしかば船夫恐れて各おのれの神を呼び又舟を輕くせんとてその中なる載荷を海に投すてたり 然るにヨナは舟の奧に下りゐて臥て酣睡せり

And the mariners were afraid, and the men cried out to their god. And they threw the containers that were in the ship into the sea in order to lighten it of them. And Jonah went down into the interior of the ship, and he fell into a painful deep sleep.

6 船長來りて彼に云けるは汝なんぞかく酣睡するや起きて汝の神を呼べあるひは彼われらを眷顧て淪亡ざらしめんと

And the helmsman approached him, and he said to him, “Why are you weighed down with sleep? Rise, call upon your God, so perhaps God will be mindful of us and we might not perish.”

7 かくて人衆互に云けるは此災の我儕にのぞめるは誰の故なるかを知んがため去來鬮を掣んと やがて鬮をひきしに鬮ヨナに當りければ

And a man said to his shipmate, “Come, and let us cast lots, so that we may know why this disaster is upon us.” And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

8 みな彼に云けるはこの災禍なにゆゑに我らにのぞめるか請ふ告げよ 汝の業は何なるや 何處より來れるや 汝の國は何處ぞや 何處の民なるや

And they said to him: “Explain to us what is the reason that this disaster is upon us. What is your work? Which is your country? And where are you going? Or which people are you from?”

9 ヨナ彼等にいひけるは我はヘブル人にして海と陸とを造りたまひし天の神ヱホバを畏るる者なり

And he said to them, “I am Hebrew, and I fear the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

10 是に於て船夫甚だしく懼れて彼に云けるは汝なんぞ其事をなせしやと その人々は彼がヱホバの面をさけて逃れしなるを知れり 其はさきにヨナ彼等に告げたればなり

And the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him, “Why have you done this?” (For the men knew that he was fleeing from the face of the Lord, because he had told them.)

11 遂に船夫彼にいひけるは我儕のために海を靜かにせんには汝に如何がなすべきや 其は海いよいよ甚だしく狂蕩たればなり

And they said to him, “What are we to do with you, so that the sea will cease for us?” For the sea flowed and swelled.

12 ヨナ彼等に曰けるはわれを取りて海に投いれよ さらば海は汝等の爲に靜かにならん そはこの大なる颺風の汝等にのぞめるはわが故なるを知ればなり

And he said to them, “Take me, and cast me into the sea, and the sea will cease for you. For I know that it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.”

13 されど船夫は陸に漕もどさんとつとめたりしが終にあたはざりき 其は海かれらにむかひていよいよ烈しく蕩たればなり

And the men were rowing, so as to return to dry land, but they did not succeed. For the sea flowed and swelled against them.

14 ここにおいて彼等ヱホバに呼はりて曰けるはヱホバよこひねがはくは此人の命の爲に我儕を滅亡したまふ勿れ 又罪なきの血をわれらに歸したまふなかれ そはヱホバよ汝 聖意にかなふところを爲し給へるなればなりと

And they cried out to the Lord, and they said, “We beseech you, Lord, do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not attribute to us innocent blood. For you, Lord, have done just as it pleased you.”

15 すなわちヨナを取りて海に投入たり しかして海のあるることやみぬ

And they took Jonah and cast him into the sea. And the sea was stilled from its fury.

16 かかりしかばその人々おほいにヱホバを畏れヱホバに犧牲を獻げ誓願を立たり

And the men feared the Lord greatly, and they sacrificed victims to the Lord, and they made vows.

17 さてヱホバすでに大なる魚を備へおきてヨナを呑しめ給へり ヨナは三日三夜魚の腹の中にありき

And the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.