ルツ記 1
1 士師の世ををさむる時にあたりて國に饑饉ありければ一箇の人その妻と二人の男子をひきつれてベテレヘムユダを去りモアブの地にゆきて寄寓る
In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons.
2 その人の名はエリメレクその妻の名はナオミその二人の男子の名はマロンおよびキリオンといふベテレヘムユダのエフラテ人なり 彼等モアブの地にいたりて其處にをりしが
The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab and lived there.
3 ナオミの夫エリメレク死てナオミとその二人の男子のこさる
Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons.
4 彼等おのおのモアブの婦人を妻にめとる その一人の名はオルパといひ一人の名はルツといふ 彼處にすむこと十年許にして
They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.
5 マロンとキリオンの二人もまた死り 斯ナオミは二人の男子と夫に後れしが
Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.
6 モアブの地にて彼ヱホバその民を眷みて食物を之にたまふと聞ければその媳とともに起ちてモアブの地より歸らんとし
Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
7 その在ところを出たりその 二人の媳これとともにあり 彼等ユダの地にかへらんと途にすすむ
She went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her. They went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
8 爰にナオミその二人の媳にいひけるは汝らはゆきておのおの母の家にかへれ 汝らがかの死たる者と我とを善く待ひしごとくにねがはくはヱホバまたなんぢらを善くあつかひたまへ
Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.
9 ねがはくはヱホバなんぢらをして各その夫の家にて安身處をえせしめたまへと 乃ちかれらに接吻しければ彼等聲をあげて哭き
May the LORD grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept.
10 之にいひけるは我ら汝とともに汝の民にかへらんと
They said to her, “No, but we will return with you to your people.”
11 ナオミいひけるは女子よ返れ 汝らなんぞ我と共に往くべけんや 汝らの夫となるべき子猶わが胎にあらんや
Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
12 女子よかへりゆけ 我は老たれば夫をもつをえざるなり 假設われ指望ありといふとも今夜夫を有つとも而してまた子を生むとも
Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, ‘I have hope,’ if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons,
13 汝等これがために其子の生長までまちをるべけんや 之がために夫をもたずしてひきこもりをるべけんや 女子よ然すべきにあらず 我はヱホバの手ののぞみてわれを攻しことを汝らのために痛くうれふるなり
would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for the LORD’s hand has gone out against me.”
14 彼等また聲をあげて哭く 而してオルパはその姑に接吻せしがルツは之を離れず
They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.
15 是によりてナオミまたいひけるは視よ汝の妯娌はその民とその神にかへり往く 汝も妯娌にしたがひてかへるべし
She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”
16 ルツいひけるは汝を棄て汝をはなれて歸ることを我に催すなかれ我は汝のゆくところに往き汝の宿るところにやどらん 汝の民はわが民汝の神はわが神なり
Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.
17 汝の死る所に我は死にて其處に葬らるべし 若死別にあらずして我なんぢとわかれなばヱホバわれにかくなし又かさねてかくなしたまへ
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”
18 彼 媳が固く心をさだめて己とともに來らんとするを見しかば之に言ふことを止たり
When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
19 かくて彼等二人ゆきて終にベテレヘムにいたりしがベテレヘムにいたれる時 邑こぞりて之がためにさわぎたち婦女等是はナオミなるやといふ
So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”
20 ナオミかれらにいひけるは我をナオミ（樂し）と呼なかれ マラ（苦し）とよぶべし 全能者痛く我を苦しめ給ひたればなり
She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
21 我 盈足て出でたるにヱホバ我をして空くなりて歸しめたまふ ヱホバ我を攻め全能者われをなやましたまふに汝等なんぞ我をナオミと呼や
I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”
22 斯ナオミそのモアブの地より歸れる 媳モアブの女ルツとともに歸り來れり 即ち彼ら大麥刈の初にベテレヘムにいたる
So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
