Daniel 2
1 In the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him.
ネブカデネザルの治世の二年にネブカデネザル夢を見それがために心に思ひなやみて復睡ること能はざりき
2 Then the king gave orders that the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and those who made use of evil powers, and the Chaldaeans, were to be sent for to make clear to the king his dreams. So they came and took their places before the king.
是をもて王は命を下し王のためにその夢を解せんとて博士と法術士と魔術士とカルデヤ人とを召しめたれぼ彼ら來りて王の前に立つ
3 And the king said to them, I have had a dream, and my spirit is troubled by the desire to have the dream made clear to me.
王すなはち彼らにむかひ我夢を見その夢の義を知んと心に思ひなやむと言ければ
4 Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in the Aramaean language, O King, have life for ever: give your servants an account of your dream, and we will make clear to you the sense of it.
カルデヤ人等スリア語をもて王に申しけるは願くは王長壽かれ請ふ僕等にその夢を語りたまへ我らその解明を進めたてまつらんと
5 The king made answer and said to the Chaldaeans, This is my decision: if you do not make clear to me the dream and the sense of it, you will be cut in bits and your houses made waste.
王こたへてカルデヤ人に言けるは我すでに命を出せり汝等もしその夢とこれが解明とを我に示さざるにおいては汝らの身は切裂れ汝らの家は厠にせられん
6 But if you make clear the dream and the sense of it, you will have from me offerings and rewards and great honour: so make clear to me the dream and the sense of it.
又汝らもしその夢とこれが解明を示さば贐物と賞賚と大なる尊榮とを我より獲ん然ばその夢と之が解明を我に示せ
7 A second time they said in answer, Let the king give his servants an account of his dream, and we will make clear the sense.
彼らまた對へて言けるは願くは王僕どもにその夢を語りたまへ然ば我らその解明を奏すべしと
8 The king made answer and said, I am certain that you are attempting to get more time, because you see that my decision is fixed;
王こたへて言けるは我あきらかに知る汝らは吾命の下りしを見るが故に時を延さんことを望むなり
9 That if you do not make my dream clear to me there is only one fate for you: for you have made ready false and evil words to say before me till the times are changed: so give me an account of the dream, and I will be certain that you are able to make the sense of it clear.
汝らもしその夢を我に示さずば汝らを處置するの法は只一のみ汝らは相語らひて虚言と妄誕なる詞を我前にのべて時の變るを待んとするなり汝ら今先その夢を我に示せ然すれば汝らがその解明をも我にしめし得ることを我しらんと
10 Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in answer, There is not a man on earth able to make clear the king's business; for no king, however great his power, has ever made such a request to any wonder-worker or user of secret arts or Chaldaean.
カルデヤ人等こたへて王の前に申しけるは世の中には王のその事を示し得る人一箇もなし是をもて王たる者主たる者君たる者等の中に斯る事を博士または法術士またはカルデヤ人に問たづねし者絶てあらざるなり
11 The king's request is a very hard one, and there is no other who is able to make it clear to the king, but the gods, whose living-place is not with flesh.
王の問たまふその事は甚だ難し肉身なる者と共に居ざる神々を除きては王の前にこれを示すことを得る者無るべしと
12 Because of this the king was angry and full of wrath, and gave orders for the destruction of all the wise men of Babylon.
斯りしかば王怒を發し大に憤りバビロンの智者をことごとく殺せと命じたり
13 So the order went out that the wise men were to be put to death; and they were looking for Daniel and his friends to put them to death.
即ち此命くだりければ智者等は殺されんとせり又ダニエルとその同僚をも殺さんともとめたり
14 Then Daniel gave an answer with wisdom and good sense to Arioch, the captain of the king's armed men, who had gone out to put to death the wise men of Babylon;
茲に王の侍衛の長アリオク、バビロンの智者等を殺さんとて出きたりければダニエル遠慮と智慧とをもて之に應答せり
15 He made answer and said to Arioch, O captain of the king, why is the king's order so cruel? Then Arioch gave Daniel an account of the business.
すなはち王の高官アリオクに對へて言けるは王なにとて斯すみやかにこの命を下したまひしやとアリオクその事をダニエルに告しらせたれば
16 And Daniel went in and made a request to the king to give him time and he would make clear the sense of his dream to the king.
ダニエルいりて王に乞求めて言ふ暫くの時日を賜へ然ばその解明を王に奏せんと
17 And Daniel went to his house and gave his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah the news:
斯てダニエルその家にかへりその同僚ハナニヤ、ミシヤエルおよびアザリヤにこの事を告しらせ
18 So that they might make a request for the mercy of the God of heaven in the question of this secret; so that Daniel and his friends might not come to destruction with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
共にこの秘密につき天の神の憐憫を乞ひダニエルとその同僚等をしてその他のバビロンの智者とともに滅びさらしめんことを求めたりしが
19 Then the secret was made clear to Daniel in a vision of the night. And Daniel gave blessing to the God of heaven.
ダニエルつひに夜の異象の中にこの秘密を示されければダニエル天の神を賞賛ふ
20 And Daniel said in answer, May the name of God be praised for ever and ever: for wisdom and strength are his:
即ちダニエル應へて言けるは永遠より永遠にいたるまでこの神の御名は讃まつるべきなり智慧と權能はこれが有なればなり
21 By him times and years are changed: by him kings are taken away and kings are lifted up: he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those whose minds are awake:
彼は時と期とを變じ王を廃し王を立て智者に智慧を與へ賢者に知識を賜ふ
22 He is the unveiler of deep and secret things: he has knowledge of what is in the dark, and the light has its living-place with him.
彼は深妙秘密の事を顕し幽暗にあるところの者を知たまふまた光明彼の裏にあり
23 I give you praise and worship, O God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and strength, and have now made clear to me what we were requesting from you: for you have given us knowledge of the king's business.
わが先祖等の神よ汝は我に智慧と權能を賜ひ今われらが汝に乞求めたるところの事を我にしめし給へば我感謝して汝を賞賛ふ即ち汝は王のかの事を我らに示したまへり
24 For this reason Daniel went to Arioch, to whom the king had given orders for the destruction of the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, Do not put to death the wise men of Babylon: take me in before the king and I will make clear to him the sense of the dream.
是においてダニエルは王がバビロンの智者等を殺すことを命じおけるアリオクの許にいたり即ちいりてこれに言けるはバビロンの智者等を殺す勿れ我を王の前に引いたれよ我その解明を王に奏上ぐべしと
25 Then Arioch quickly took Daniel in before the king, and said to him, Here is a man from among the prisoners of Judah, who will make clear to the king the sense of the dream.
アリオクすなはちダニエルを引て急ぎ王の前にいたり王にまうしけるは我ユダの俘囚人の中に一箇の人を得たり是者その解明を王にまうしあげん
26 The king made answer and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Are you able to make clear to me the dream which I saw and its sense?
王こたへてベルテシヤザルと名くるダニエルに言けるは汝は我が見たる夢とその解明とを我に知らすることを得るやと
27 Then Daniel said in answer to the king, No wise men, or users of secret arts, or wonder-workers, or readers of signs, are able to make clear to the king the secret he is searching for;
ダニエルすなはち應へて王の前に言けるは王の問たまふ秘密は智者法術士博士卜筮師など之を王に奏上ぐることを得ず
28 But there is a God in heaven, the unveiler of secrets, and he has given to King Nebuchadnezzar knowledge of what will take place in the last days. Your dreams and the visions of your head on your bed are these:
然ど天に一の神ありて秘密をあらはし給ふ彼後の日に起らんところの事の如何なるかをネブカデネザル王にしらせたまふなり汝の夢汝が牀にありて想見たまひし汝の脳中の異象は是なり
29 As for you, O King, the thoughts which came to you on your bed were of what will come about after this: and the unveiler of secrets has made clear to you what is to come.
王よ汝牀にいりし時将來の事の如何を想ひまはしたまひしが秘密を顕す者将來の事の如何を汝にしめし給へり
30 As for me, this secret is not made clear to me because of any wisdom which I have more than any living man, but in order that the sense of the dream may be made clear to the king, and that you may have knowledge of the thoughts of your heart.
我がこの示現を蒙れるは凡の生る者にまさりて我に智慧あるに由にあらず唯その解明を王に知しむる事ありて王のつひにその心に想ひたまひし事を知にいたり給はんがためなり
31 You, O King, were looking, and a great image was there. This image, which was very great, and whose glory was very bright, was placed before you: its form sent fear into the heart.
王よ汝は一箇の巨なる像の汝の前に立るを見たまへり其像は大くしてその光輝は常ならずその形は畏ろしくあり
32 As for this image, its head was made of the best gold, its breast and its arms were of silver, its middle and its sides were of brass,
其像は頭は純金 胸と兩腕とは銀 腹と腿とは銅
33 Its legs of iron, its feet were in part of iron and in part of potter's earth.
脛は鉄 脚は一分は鉄一分は泥土なり
34 While you were looking at it, a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it gave the image a blow on its feet, which were of iron and earth, and they were broken in bits.
汝見て居たまひしに遂に一箇の石人手によらずして鑿れて出でその像の鉄と泥土との脚を撃てこれを碎けり
35 Then the iron and the earth, the brass and the silver and the gold, were smashed together, and became like the dust on the floors where grain is crushed in summer; and the wind took them away so that no sign of them was to be seen: and the stone which gave the image a blow became a great mountain, covering all the earth.
斯りしかばその鉄と泥土と銅と銀と金とは皆ともに碎けて夏の禾場の糠のごとくに成り風に吹はらはれて止るところ無りき而してその像を撃たる石は大なる山となりて全地に充り
36 This is the dream; and we will make clear to the king the sense of it.
是その夢なり我らその解明を王の前に陳ん
37 You, O King, king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory,
王よ汝は諸王の王にいませり即ち天の神汝に國と權威と能力と尊貴とを賜へり
38 Wherever the children of men are living; into whose hands he has given the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven, and has made you ruler over them all, you are the head of gold.
また人の子等等の獣畜かよび天空の鳥は何處にをる者にもあれ皆これを汝の手に與へて汝にこれをことごとく治めしめたまふ汝はすなはち此金の頭なり
39 And after you another kingdom, lower than you, will come to power; and a third kingdom, of brass, ruling over all the earth.
汝の後に汝に劣る一の國おこらんまた第三に銅の國おこりて全世界を治めん
40 And the fourth kingdom will be strong as iron: because, as all things are broken and overcome by iron, so it will have the power of crushing and smashing down all the earth.
第四の國は堅きこと鉄のごとくならん鉄は能く萬の物を毀ち碎くなり 鉄の是等をことごとく打碎くがごとく其國は毀ちかつ碎くことをせん
41 And as you saw the feet and toes, part of potter's work and part of iron, there will be a division in the kingdom; but there will be some of the strength of iron in it, because you saw the iron mixed with the potter's earth.
汝その足と足の趾を見たまひしに一分は陶人の泥土一分は鉄なりければその國は分裂たる者ならん又汝鉄と粘土との混和たるを見たまひたればその國は鉄のごとく強からん
42 And as the toes of the feet were in part of iron and in part of earth, so part of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will readily be broken.
その足の趾の一分は鉄一分は泥土なりしごとくその國は強きところもあり脆きところも有ん
43 And as you saw the iron mixed with earth, they will give their daughters to one another as wives: but they will not be united one with another, even as iron is not mixed with earth.
汝が鉄と粘土との混りたるを見たまひしごとく其等は人草の種子と混らん然ど鉄と泥土との相合せざるごとく彼と此と相合すること有じ
44 And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever.
この王等の日に天の神一の國を建たまはん是は何時までも滅ぶること無らん此國は他の民に歸せず却てこの諸の國を打破りてこれを滅せん是は立ちて永遠にいたらん
45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that by it the iron and the brass and the earth and the silver and the gold were broken to bits, a great God has given the king knowledge of what is to take place in the future: the dream is fixed, and its sense is certain.
かの石の人手によらずして山より鑿れて出で鉄と銅と泥土と銀と金とを打碎きしを汝が見たまひしは即ちこの事なり大御神この後に起らんところの事を王にしらせたまへるなりその夢は眞にしてこの解明は確なり
46 Then King Nebuchadnezzar, falling down on his face, gave worship to Daniel, and gave orders for an offering and spices to be given to him;
是においてネブカデネザル王は俯伏てダニエルを拝し礼物と香をこれに献ぐることを命じたり
47 And the king made answer to Daniel and said, Truly, your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings, and an unveiler of secrets, for you have been able to make this secret clear.
而して王こたへてダニエルに言けるは汝がこの秘密を明かに示すことを得たるを見れば誠に汝らの神は神等の神王等の主にして能く秘密を示す者なりと
48 Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him offerings in great number, and made him ruler over all the land of Babylon, and chief over all the wise men of Babylon.
かくて王はダこエルに高位を授け種々の大なる賜物を與へてこれをバビロン全州の総督となしまたバビロンの智者等を統る者の首長となせり
49 And at Daniel's request, the king gave Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego authority over the business of the land of Babylon: but Daniel was kept near the king's person.
王またダニエルの願によりてシヤデラクとメシヤクとアベデネゴを挙てバビロン州の事務をつかさどらしめたりダニエルは王の宮にをる
