Zephaniah 2

1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,

汝等羞恥を知ぬ民早く自ら内に省みよ

2 before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes on you, before the day of the LORD's anger comes on you.

夫日は糠粃の如く過ぎさる 然ば詔言のいまだ行はれざる先ヱホバの烈き怒のいまだ汝等に臨まざる先ヱホバの忿怒の日のいまだ汝等にきたらざるさきに自ら省みるべし

3 Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the LORD's anger.

すべてヱホバの律法を行ふ斯地の遜るものよ 汝等ヱホバを求め公義を求め謙遜を求めよ 然すれば汝等ヱホバの忿怒の日に或は匿さるることあらん

4 For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.

夫ガザは棄られアシケロンは荒はてアシドドは白晝に逐はらはれエクロンは抜さらるべし

5 Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites. The word of the LORD is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.

海邊に住る者およびケレテの國民は禍なるかな ベリシテ人の國カナンよ ヱホバの言なんぢらを攻む 我なんぢを滅して住者なきに至らしむべし

6 The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

海邊は必ず牧塲となり牧者の洞および羊の牢そこに在ん

7 The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for the LORD, their God, will visit them, and restore them.

此地はユダの家の殘餘れる者に歸せん 彼ら其處にて草飼ひ暮に至ればアシケロンの家に臥ん そは彼らの神ヱホバかれらを顧みその俘囚を歸したまふべければなり

8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the people of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

我すでにモアブの嘲弄とアンモンの子孫の罵言を聞けり 彼らはわが民を嘲り自ら誇りて之が境界を侵せしなり

9 Therefore as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the people of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.

是故に萬軍のヱホバ、イスラエルの神 言たまふ 我は活く 必ずモアブはソドムのごとくになりアンモンの子孫はゴモラのごとくにならん 是は共に蕁麻の蔓延る處となり鹽坑の地となりて長久に荒はつべし 我民の遺れる者かれらを掠めわが國民の餘されたる者かれらを獲ん

10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

この事の彼らに臨むはその傲慢による 即ち彼ら萬軍のヱホバの民を嘲りて自ら誇りたればなり

11 The LORD will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.

ヱホバは彼等に對ひては畏ろしくましまし地の諸の神や饑し滅したまふなり 諸の國の民おのおのその處より出てヱホバを拜まん

12 You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.

エテオピア人よ汝等もまたわが劍にかかりて殺さる

13 He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.

ヱホバ北に手を伸てアッスリヤを滅したまはん 亦ニネベを荒して荒野のごとき旱地となしたまはん

14 Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.

而して畜の群もろもろの類の生物その中に伏し鸅鸕および刺猬其柱の頂に住み囀る者の聲窓の内にきこえ荒落たる物閾の上に積り香柏の板の細工露顯になるべし

15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in. Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

是邑は驕り傲ぶりて安泰に立をり 唯我あり 我の外には誰もなしと心の中に言つつありし者なるが斯も荒はてて畜獣の臥す處となる者かな 此を過る者はみな嘶きて手をふるはん