Judges 7
1 Then Jerobaal, who is the same as Gedeon, rising up early and all the people with him, came to the fountain that is called Harad. Now the camp of Madian was in the valley on the north side of the high hill.
斯てヱルバアルと呼るるギデオンおよび之とともにあるすべての民朝夙に興きいでてハロデの井のほとりに陣を取るミデアン人の陣はかれらの北の方にあたりモレの山に沿ひ谷のうちにありき
2 And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people that are with thee are many, and Madian shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel should glory against me, and say: I was delivered by my own strength.
ヱホバ、ギデオンにいひたまひけるは汝とともに在る民は餘りに多ければ我その手にミデアン人を付さじおそらくはイスラエル我に向ひ自ら誇りていはん我わが手をもて己を救へりと
3 Speak to the people, and proclaim in the hearing of all, I Whosoever is fearful and timorous, let him return. So two and twenty thousand men went away from mount Galaad and returned home, and only ten thousand remained.
されば民の耳に告示していふべし誰にても懼れ慄くものはギレアデ山より歸り去るべしとここにおいて民のかへりしもの二萬二千人あり殘しものは一萬人なりき
4 And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people are still too many, bring them to the waters, and there I will try them: and of whom I shall say to thee, This shall go with thee, let him go: whom I shall forbid to go, let him return.
ヱホバまたギデオンにいひたまひけるは民なほ多し之を導きて水際に下れ我かしこにて汝のために彼らを試みんおほよそ我が汝に告て此人は汝とともに行くべしといはんものはすなはち汝とともに行くべしまたおほよそ我汝に告て此人は汝とともに行くべからずといはんものはすなはち行くべからざるなり
5 And when the people were come down to the waters, the Lord said to Gedeon: They that shall lap the water with their tongues, as dogs are wont to lap, thou shalt set apart by themselves: but they that shall drink bowing down their knees, shall be on the other side.
ギデオン民をみちびきて水際に下りしにヱホバ之にいひたまひけるはおほよそ犬の餂るがごとくその舌をもて水を餂るものは汝之を別けおくべしまたおほよそ其の膝を折り屈みて水を飮むものをも然すべしと
6 And the number of them that had lapped water, casting it with the hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: and all the rest of the multitude had drunk kneeling.
手を口にあてて水を餂しものの數は三百人なり餘の民は盡くその膝を折り屈みて水を飮り
7 And the Lord said to Gedeon: By the three hundred men, that lapped water, I will save you, and deliver Madian into thy hand: but let all the rest of the people return to their place.
ヱホバ、ギデオンにいひたまひけるは我水を餂たる三百人の者をもて汝らを救ひミデアン人を汝の手に付さん餘の民はおのおの其所に歸るべしと
8 So taking victuals and trumpets according to their number, he ordered all the rest of the multitude to depart to their tents: and he with the three hundred gave himself to the battle. Now the camp of Madian was beneath him in the valley.
ここにおいて彼ら民の兵粮とその箛を手にうけとれりギデオンすなはちすべてのイスラエル人を各自その天幕に歸らせ彼の三百人を留めおけり時にミデアン人の陣はその下の谷のなかにありき
9 The same night the Lord said to him: Arise, and go down into the camp: because I have delivered them into thy hand.
その夜ヱホバ、ギデオンにいひたまはく起よ下りて敵陣に入るべし我之を汝の手に付すなり
10 But if thou be afraid to go alone, let Phara thy servant go down with thee.
されど汝もし下ることを怖れなば汝の僕フラを伴ひ陣所に下りて
11 And when thou shalt hear what they are saying, then shall thy hands be strengthened, and thou shalt go down more secure to the enemies’ camp. And he went down with Phara his servant into part of the camp, where was the watch of men in arms.
彼らのいふ所を聞べし然せば汝の手強くなりて汝敵陣にくだることを得んとギデオンすなはち僕フラとともに下りて陣中にある隊伍のほとりに至るに
12 But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people lay scattered in the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were innumerable as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.
ミデアン人アマレク人およびすべて東方の民は蝗蟲のごとくに數衆く谷のうちに堰しをりその駱駝は濱の砂の多きがごとくにして數ふるに勝ず
13 And when Gedeon was come, one told his neighbour a dream: and in this manner related what he had seen: I dreamt a dream, and it seemed to me as if a hearth cake of barley bread rolled and came down into the camp of Madian: and when it was come to a tent it struck it, and beat it down flat to the ground.
ギデオン其處に至りしに或人その伴侶に夢を語りて居りすなはちいふ我夢を見たりしが夢に大麥のパンひとつミデアンの陣中に轉びいりて天幕に至り之をうち仆し覆したれば天幕倒れ臥り
14 He to whom he spoke, answered: This is nothing else but the sword of Gedeon the son of Joas a man of Israel. For the Lord hath delivered Madian, and all their camp into his hand.
其の伴侶答へていふ是イスラエルの人ヨアシの子ギデオンの劍に外ならず神ミデアンとすべての陣營を之が手に付したまふなりと
15 And when Gedeon had heard the dream, and the interpretation thereof, he adored: and returned to the camp of Israel, and said: Arise, for the Lord hath delivered the camp of Madian into our hands.
ギデオン夢の説話とその解釋を聞しかば拜をなしてイスラエルの陣所にかへりいひけるは起よヱホバ汝らの手にミデアンの陣をわたしたまふと
16 And he divided the three hundred men into three parts, and gave them trumpets in their hands, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
かくて三百人を三隊にわかち手に手に箛および空瓶を取せその瓶のなかに燈火をおかしめ
17 And he said to them: What you shall see me do, do you the same: I will go into one part of the camp, and do you as I shall do.
これにいひけるは我を視てわが爲すところにならへ我が敵陣の邊に至らんときに爲すごとく汝らも爲すべし
18 When the trumpet shall sound in my hand, do you also blow the trumpets on every side of the camp.
我およびわれとともに在るものすべて箛を吹ば汝らもまたすべて陣營の四方にて箛を吹き此ヱホバのためなりギデオンのためなりといへと
19 And Gedeon, and the three hundred men that were with him, went into part of the camp, at the beginning of the midnight watch, and the watchmen being alarmed, they began to sound their trumpets, and to clap the pitchers one against another.
而してギデオンおよび之とともなる百人中更の初に陣營の邊に至るにをりしも番兵を更代たるときなりければ箛を吹き手に携へたる瓶をうちくだけり
20 And when they sounded their trumpets in three places round about the camp, and had broken their pitchers, they held their lamps in their left hands, and with their right hands the trumpets which they blew, and they cried out: The sword of the Lord and of Gedeon;
即ち三隊の兵隊箛を吹き瓶をうちくだき左の手には燈火を執り右の手には箛をもちて之を吹きヱホバの劍ギデオンの劍なるぞと叫べり
21 Standing every man in his place round about the enemies’ camp. So all the camp was troubled, and crying out and howling they fled away.
かくておのおのその持場に立ち陣營を取り圍みたれば敵軍みな走り叫びてにげゆけり
22 And the three hundred men nevertheless persisted sounding the trumpets. And the Lord sent the sword into all the camp, and they killed one another,
三百人のもの箛を吹くにあたりヱホバ敵軍をしてみなたがひに同士撃せしめたまひければ敵軍にげはしりてゼレラのベテシツダ、アベルメホラの境およびタバテに至る
23 Fleeing as far as Bethsetta, and the border of Abelmahula in Tebbath. But the men of Israel shouting from Nephtali and Aser, and from all Manasses pursued after Madian.
イスラエルの人々すなはちナフタリ、アセルおよびマナセ中より集ひ來りてミデアン人を追撃り
24 And Gedeon sent messengers into all mount Ephraim, saying: Come down to meet Madian, and take the waters before them to Bethbera and the Jordan. And all Ephraim shouted, and took the waters before them and the Jordan as far as Bethbera.
ギデオン使者をあまねくエフライムの山に遣していはせけるは下りてミデアン人を攻めベタバラにいたる渡口およびヨルダンを遮斷るべしと是においてエフライムの人盡く集ひ來りてベタバラにいたる渡口およびヨルダンを取り
25 And having taken two men of Madian, Oreb and Zeb: Oreb they slew in the rock of Oreb, and Zeb in the winepress of Zeb. And they pursued Madian, carrying the heads of Oreb and Zeb to Gedeon beyond the waters of the Jordan.
ミデアン人の君主オレブとゼエブの二人を俘へてオレブをばオレブ砦の上に殺しゼエブをばゼエブの酒搾のほとりに殺しまたミデアン人を追撃ちオレブとゼエブの首を携へてヨルダンの彼方よりギデオンの許にいたる
