Esther 9

1 So in the twelft moneth, which is the moneth Adar, vpon the thirteenth daye of the same, when the Kings commandement and his decree drew neere to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Iewes hoped to haue power ouer them (but it turned contrary: for the Iewes had rule ouer them that hated them)

十二月すなはちアダルの月の十三日王の命令と詔書のおこなはるべき時いよいよ近づける時すなはちユダヤ人の敵ユダヤ人を打伏んとまちかまへたりしに却てユダヤ人おのれを惡む者を打ふする事となりける其日に

2 The Iewes gathered themselues together into their cities throughout all the prouinces of the King Ahashuerosh, to lay hande on such as sought their hurt, and no man coulde withstande them: for the feare of them fel vpon al people.

ユダヤ人アハシユエロス王の各州にある己の邑々に相あつまりおのれを害せんとする者どもを殺さんとせり誰も彼らに敵ることを得る者なかりき 其は一切の民ユダヤ人を畏れたればなり

3 And all the rulers of the prouinces, and the princes and the captaines, and the officers of the King exalted the Iewes: for the feare of Mordecai fell vpon them.

諸州の牧伯州牧方伯など凡て王の事を辨理ふ者は皆ユダヤ人をたすけたり 是モルデカイを畏るるによりてたり

4 For Mordecai was great in the kings house, and the report of him went through all the prouinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

モルデカイは王の家にて大なる者となりその名各州にきこえわたれり斯その人モルデカイはますます大になりゆきぬ

5 Thus the Iewes smote all their enemies with strokes of the sworde and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they woulde vnto those that hated them.

ユダヤ人すなはち刀刃をもてその一切の敵を撃て殺し滅ぼしおのれを惡む者を意のままに爲したり

6 And at Shushan the palace slewe the Iewes and destroyed fiue hundreth men,

ユダヤ人またシユシヤンの城においても五百人を殺しほろぼせり

7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,

パルシヤンダタ、ダルポン、アスパタ

8 And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,

ポラタ、アダリヤ、アリダタ

9 And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vaiezatha,

パルマシタ、アリサイ、アリダイ、ワエザタ

10 The ten sonnes of Haman, ye sonne of Ammedatha, the aduersarie of the Iewes slewe they: but they layd not their hands on the spoyle.

これらの者すなはちハンメダタの子ユダヤ人の敵たるハマンの十人の子をも彼ら殺せりされどその所有物には手をかけざりき

11 On the same day came ye nomber of those that were slayne, vnto the palace of Shushan before the King.

シユシヤンの城の内にて殺されし者の數をその日王にまうしあげければ

12 And the King sayd vnto the Queene Ester, The Iewes haue slayne in Shushan the palace and destroyed fiue hundreth men, and the ten sonnes of Haman: what haue they done in the rest of the Kings prouinces? and what is thy petition, that it may be giuen thee? or what is thy request moreouer, that it may be performed?

王きさきエステルにいひけるはユダヤ人シユシヤンの城の内にて五百人を殺しまたハマンの十人の子をころせり王のその餘の諸州においては幾何なりしぞや 汝また何か求むるところあるやかならず許さるべし尚何かねがふところあるや必らず成就らるべし

13 Then sayd Ester, If it please the King, let it be granted also to morow to the Iewes that are in Shushan, to do according vnto this daies decree, that they may hang vpon ye tree Hamans ten sonnes.

エステルいひけるは王もし之を善としたまはば願くはシユシヤンにあるユダヤ人に允して明日も今日の詔旨のごとくなさしめ且ハマンの十人の子を木に懸しめたまへ

14 And the King charged to doe so, and the decree was giuen at Shushan, and they hanged Hamans ten sonnes.

王かく爲せと命じシユシヤンにおいて詔旨を出せりマンの十人の子は木に懸らる

15 So the Iewes that were in Shushan, assembled themselues vpon the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar, and slew three hundreth men in Shushan, but on the spoyle they layd not their hand.

アダルの月の十四日にシユシヤンのユダヤ人また集まりシユシヤンの内にて三百人をころせり然れどもその所有物には手をかけざりき

16 And the rest of the Iewes that were in the Kings prouinces assembled themselues, and stood for their liues, and had rest from their enemies, and slewe of them that hated them, seuentie and fiue thousand: but they layd not their hand on the spoyle.

王の諸州にあるその餘のユダヤ人もまた相あつまり立ておのれの生命を保護しその敵に勝て安んじおのれを惡む者七萬五千人をころせり然れどもその所有には手をかけざりき

17 This they did on the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar, and rested the fourteenth day thereof, and kept it a day of feasting and ioy.

アダルの月の十三日にこの事をおこなひ十四日にやすみてその日に酒宴をなして喜こべり

18 But the Iewes that were in Shushan assembled themselues on the thirteenth day, and on the fourteenth therof, and they rested on the fifteenth of the same, and kept it a day of feasting and ioy.

されどシユシヤンにをるユダヤ人はその十三日と十四日とにあひ集まり十五日にやすみてその日に酒宴をなして喜こべり

19 Therefore the Iewes of the villages that dwelt in the vnwalled townes, kept the foureteenth day of the moneth Adar with ioy and feasting, euen a ioyfull day, and euery one sent presents vnto his neighbour.

これによりて村々のユダヤ人すなはち石垣なき邑々にすめる者はアダルの月の十四日をもて喜樂の日酒宴の日吉日となして互に物をやりとりす

20 And Mordecai wrote these words, and sent letters vnto all the Iewes that were through all the prouinces of the King Ahashuerosh, both neere and farre,

モルデカイこれらの事を書しるしてアハシユエロス王の諸州にをるユダヤ人に遠きにも近きにも書をおくり

21 Inioyning them that they shoulde keepe the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, euery yeere.

アダルの月の十四日と十五日を年々にいはふことを命じ

22 According to the dayes wherein the Iewes rested from their enemies, and the moneth which was turned vnto them from sorowe to ioy, and from mourning into a ioyfull day, to keepe them the dayes of feasting, and ioy, and to sende presents euery man to his neyghbour, and giftes to the poore.

この兩の日にユダヤ人その敵に勝て休みこの月は彼のために憂愁より喜樂にかはり悲哀より吉日にかはりたれば是らの日に酒宴をなして喜びたがひに物をやりとりし貧しき者に施與をなすべしと諭しぬ

23 And the Iewes promised to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written vnto them,

ここをもてユダヤ人はその已にはじめたるごとくモルデカイがかれらに書おくりしごとく行なひつづけたり

24 Because Haman the sonne of Hammedatha the Agagite al the Iewes aduersarie, had imagined against the Iewes, to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is a lot) to consume and destroy them.

アガグ人ハンメダタの子ハマンすなはちすべてのユダヤ人の敵たる者ユダヤ人を滅ぼさんと謀りプルすなはち籤を投てこれを滅ぼし絶さんとしたりしが

25 And when she came before the King, he commanded by letters, Let this wicked deuise (which he imagined against the Iewes) turne vpon his owne head, and let them hang him and his sonnes on the tree.

その事王の前に明かになりし時王書をおくりて命じハマンがユダヤ人を害せんとはかりしその惡き謀計をしてハマンのかうべに歸らしめ彼とその子等を木に懸しめたり

26 Therfore they called these dayes Purim, by the name of Pur, and because of all the wordes of this letter, and of that which they had seene besides this, and of that which had come vnto them.

このゆゑに此兩の日をそのプルの名にしたがひてプリムとなづけたり斯りしかばこの書のすべての詞によりこの事につきて見たるところ己の遇たるところに依て

27 The Iewes also ordeined, and promised for them and for their seede, and for all that ioyned vnto them, that they would not faile to obserue those two dayes euery yeere, according to their writing, and according to their season,

ユダヤ人あひ定め年々その書るところにしたがひその定めたる時にしたがひてこの兩の日をまもり己とおのれの子孫および凡て已につらなる者これを行ひつづけて廢すること無く

28 And that these dayes shoulde be remembred, and kept throughout euery generation and euery familie, and euery prouince, and euery citie: euen these daies of Purim should not faile among the Iewes, and the memoriall of them should not perish from their seede.

この兩の日をもて代々家々州々邑々において必ず記念てまもるべき者となしこれらのプリムの日をしてユダヤ人の中に廢せらるること無らしめまたこの記念をしてその子孫の中に絶ること無らしむ

29 And the Queene Ester ye daughter of Abihail and Mordecai the Iew wrote with al authoritie (to cofirme this letter of Purim ye second time)

かくてアビハイルの女なる后エステルとユダヤ人モルデカイおほいなる力をもて此プリムの第二の書を書おくりてこれを堅うす

30 And he sent letters vnto al the Iewes to the hundreth and seuen and twentie prouinces of the kingdome of Ahashuerosh, with words of peace and trueth,

すなはちモルデカイ、アハシユエロスの國の百二十七州にある一切のユダヤ人に平和と眞實の言語をもて書をおくり

31 To confirme these dayes of Purim, according to their seasons, as Mordecai the Iewe and Ester the Queene had appointed them, and as they had promised for them selues and for their seede with fasting and prayer.

斷食と悲哀のことにつきてプリムのこれらの日を堅うしてその定めたる時を守らしむすなはちユダヤ人モルデカイと后エステルが曾てかれらに命じたるごとくまたユダヤ人等が曾てみづから己のためおよびおのれの子孫のために定めたるがごとし

32 And the decree of Ester confirmed these words of Purim, and was written in the booke.

エステルの語プリムにかかはる是等の事をかたうせり是は書にしるされたり