Revelation 12
1 Then a great portent was seen in the heavens – a woman whose robe was the sun, and who had the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
また天に大なる徴 見えたり。日を著たる女ありて、其の足の下に月あり、其の頭に十二の星の冠冕あり。
2 She was pregnant; and she is crying out in the pain and agony of childbirth.
かれは孕りをりしが、子を産まんとして産みの苦痛と惱とのために叫べり、
3 Another portent also was seen in the heavens There was a great red Dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems.
また天に他の徴 見えたり。視よ、大なる赤き龍あり、これに七つの頭と十の角とありて、頭には七つの冠冕あり。
4 His tail draws after it a third of the stars in the heavens, and it hurled them down on the earth. The Dragon is standing in front of the woman who is about to give birth to the child, so that he may devour it as soon as it is born.
その尾は天の星の三分の一を引きて之を地に落せり。龍は子を産まんとする女の前に立ち、産むを待ちて其の子を食ひ盡さんと構へたり。
5 The woman gave birth to a son, a male child, who is destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod; and her child was at once caught up to God on his throne.
女は男子を産めり、この子は鐵の杖もて諸種の國人を治めん。かれは神の許に、その御座の下に擧げられたり。
6 But the woman fled into the wilderness, where there is a place prepared for her by God, to be tended there for twelve hundred and sixty days.
女は荒野に逃げゆけり。彼處に千二百 六十日の間かれが養はるる爲に神の備へ給へる所あり。
7 Then a battle took place in the heavens. Michael and his angels fought with the Dragon. But though the Dragon, with his angels, fought,
かくて天に戰爭おこれり、ミカエル及びその使たち龍とたたかふ。龍もその使たちも之と戰ひしが、
8 he did not prevail; and there was no place left for them any longer in the heavens.
勝つこと能はず、天には、はや其の居る所なかりき。
9 Then the great Dragon, the primeval snake, known as the “devil” and “Satan,” who deceives all the world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
かの大なる龍、すなわち惡魔と呼ばれ、サタンと呼ばれたる全世界をまどはす古き蛇は落され、地に落され、その使たちも共に落されたり。
10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven which said – “Now has begun the day of the salvation, and Power, and Dominion of our God, and the Rule of his Christ; for the Accuser of our people has been hurled down, he who has been accusing them before our God day and night.
我また天に大なる聲ありて『われらの神の救と能力と國と神のキリストの權威とは、今すでに來れり。我らの兄弟を訴へ夜晝われらの神の前に訴ふるもの落されたり。
11 Their victory was due to the blood of the Lamb, and to the message to which they bore their testimony. In their love of life they shrank not from death.
而して兄弟たちは羔羊の血と己が證の言とによりて勝ち、死に至るまで己が生命を惜まざりき。
12 Therefore, be glad, heaven, and all who live in heaven! Alas for the earth and for the sea, for the devil has gone down to you in great fury, knowing that he has but little time.”
この故に天および天に住める者よ、よろこべ、地と海とは禍害なるかな、惡魔おのが時の暫時なるを知り、大なる憤恚をいだきて汝 等のもとに下りたればなり』と云ふを聞けり。
13 When the Dragon saw that he was hurled down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
かくて龍はおのが地に落されしを見て、男子を生みし女を責めたりしが、
14 But to the woman were given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she might fly to her place in the wilderness, where she is being tended for one year, and for two years, and for half a year in safety from the snake.
女は荒野なる己が處に飛ぶために、大なる鷲の兩の翼を與へられたれば、其處にいたり、一年、二年、また半年のあひだ蛇のまへを離れて養はれたり。
15 Then the snake poured water from its mouth after the woman, like a river, so that it might sweep her away.
蛇はその口より水を川のごとく、女の背後に吐きて之を流さんとしたれど、
16 But Earth came to her help, and opened her mouth and drank up the river which the Dragon had poured out of its mouth.
地は女を助け、その口を開きて龍の口より吐きたる川を呑み盡せり。
17 The Dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to fight with the rest of her offspring – those who lay to heart the commands of God and bear their testimony to Jesus;
龍は女を怒りてその裔の殘れるもの、即ち神の誡命を守りイエスの證を有てる者に、戰鬪を挑まんとて出でゆき、 海邊の砂の上に立てり。
