列王記Ⅱ 4

1 預言者の徒の妻の中なる一人の婦人エリシヤに呼はりていひけるは汝の僕なるわが夫死りなんぢの僕のヱホバを畏れしことはなんぢの知るところなり今債主きたりてわが二人の子をとりて奴僕となさんとすと

Now a wife from among the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be his slaves."

2 エリシヤ之にいひけるはわれなんぢの爲に何をなすべきや汝の家に如何なる物あるかわれに告よ彼いひけるは僅少の油のほかは汝の婢の家に有ものなし

Then Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" And she said, "Your servant has nothing in the house, except a small jar of oil."

3 彼いひけるは往て外より鄰の人々より器を借よ空たる器を借るべし少許を借るなかれ

Then he said, "Go, ask for containers from outside, from all your neighbors, empty containers.

4 而してなんぢ入て汝の子等とともに戸の内に閉こもりそのすべての器に油をつぎてその盈るところの者をとりのけおくべし

Then go in and shut the door behind yourself and your sons and pour into all these containers, and you are to set each one aside when it is full."

5 婦人すなはち彼を離れて去りその子等とともに戸の内に閉こもり子等のもちきたる器に油をつぎたりしが

So she left him and shut the door behind herself and her sons; they kept bringing her containers, and she kept pouring.

6 器のみな盈たるときその子にむかひ尚われに器をもちきたれといひけるに器はもはやあらずといひたればその油すなはち止る

Now it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, "Bring me another container." But he said to her, "There aren't any more." Then the oil stopped flowing.

7 是においてその婦神の人にいたりてかくと告ければかれいふ往て油をうりてその負債をつくのひその餘分をもて汝と汝の子等生計をなすべしと

Then she came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest."

8 一日エリシヤ、シユネムにゆきしに其所に一人の大なる婦人ありてしきりにこれに食をすすめたれば彼かしこを過る毎にそこに入て食をなせり

Now it happened one day that Elisha traveled to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, who urged him to eat some food. so whenever he passed by, he would stop in there to eat some food.

9 茲にその婦人夫にいひけるは視よ此つねにわれらを過る人は我これを見るに神の聖き人なり

And she said to her husband, "Look now, I know that this is a holy man of God who often passes by us.

10 請ふ小き室を石垣の上につくりそこに臥床と案と榻と燭臺をかれのために備へん彼われらに至る時はそこに入るべしと

Please, let's make a little room on the wall, and let's set up a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him there, so that whenever he comes to us, he can stay there."

11 かくてのちある日エリシヤそこに至りその室に入てそこに臥たりしが

Now it happened one day he came there, and he turned into the upper room and rested.

12 その僕ゲハジにむかひ彼のシユナミ人を召きたれといへり彼かの婦人を召たればその前にきたりて立つに

And he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." So he called for her and she stood before him.

13 エリシヤ、ゲハジにいひけるは彼にかく言へ汝かく懇に我らのために意を用ふ汝のために何をなすべきや王または軍勢の長に汝のことを告られんことを望むかと彼答へてわれはわが民の中にをるなりといふ

And he said to him, "Say now to her, 'Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can I do for you? Can I put in a good word for you to the king, or to the commander of the army?'" She answered, "I have a home among my own people."

14 エリシヤいひけるは然ばかれのために何をなすべきやゲハジ答へけるは誠にかれは子なくその夫は老たりと

So he said, "What then can I do for her?" And Gehazi replied, "Actually, she has no son, and her husband is old."

15 是においてエリシヤかれを召といひければこれを呼に來りて戸口に立たれば

Then he said, "Call her." And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.

16 エリシヤいふ明る年の今頃汝子を抱くあらん彼いひけるはいなわが主神の人よなんぢの婢をあざむきたまふなかれと

And he said, "At this season, when the time comes around, you will be holding a son." And she said, "No, my lord, man of God, do not lie to your servant."

17 かくて婦つひに孕て明る年にいたりてエリシヤのいへるその頃に子を生り

But the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, just as Elisha had said to her.

18 その子育ちてある日刈獲人の所にいでゆきてその父にいたりしが

And the child grew and it happened one day that he went out to his father to the harvest workers.

19 父にわが首わが首といひたれば父少者に彼を母のもとに負ゆけと言り

And he said to his father, "My head, my head." And he said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

20 すなはちこれを負て母にいたりしに午まで母の膝に坐り居て遂に死たれば

And when he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and died.

21 母のぼりゆきてこれを神の人の臥床の上に置きこれをとぢこめて出で

Then she went up and put him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door behind him and left.

22 その夫をよびていひけるは請ふ一人の僕と一頭の驢馬を我につかはせ我神の人の許にはせゆきて歸らんと

Then she called to her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and then return."

23 夫いふ何故に汝は今日かれにいたらんとするや今日は朔日にもあらず安息日にもあらざるなり彼いひけるは宜しと

But he said, "Why would you want to see him today? It is not the new moon or Sabbath." And she said, "It's alright."

24 婦すなはち驢馬に鞍おきてその僕にいひけるは驅て進め吾が命ずることなくば我が騎すすむることに緩漫あらしめざれと

Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, "Lead on; do not slow down for me unless I tell you."

25 つひにカルメル山にゆきて神の人にいたるに／神の人遥にかれの來るを見て僕ゲハジにいひけるは視よかしこにかのシユナミ人をる

So she went and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. So it happened when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, "Look, there is the Shunammite.

26 請ふ汝はしりゆきて彼をむかへて言へなんぢは平安なるやなんぢの夫はやすらかなるやなんぢの子はやすらかなるやと彼こたへて平安なりといひ

Please run now to meet her and ask her, 'Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?'" And she answered, "It is well."

27 遂に山にきたりて神の人にいたりその足を抱きたればゲハジこれを逐ひはらはんとて近よりしに神の人いひけるは容しおけ彼は心の中に苦あるなりまたヱホバその事を我にかくしていまだわれに告たまはざるなり

But when she came to the man of God to the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone, for she is in severe anguish, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me."

28 婦いひけるはわれわが主に子を求めしやわれをあざむきたまふなかれとわれは言ざりしや

Then she said, "Did I ask a son from my lord? Did I not say, 'Do not mislead me?'"

29 エリシヤすなはちゲハジにいひけるはなんぢ腰をひきからげわが杖を手にもちて行け誰に逢も禮をなすべからず又なんぢに禮をなす者あるともそれに答ふることなかれわが杖をかの子の面の上におけよと

Then he said to Gehazi, "Tuck your cloak into your belt, and take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not reply. And lay my staff on the face of the child."

30 その子の母いひけるはヱホバは活くなんぢの霊魂は生く我は汝を離れじと是をもてエリシヤついに起て婦に從ひ行ぬ

But the mother of the child said, "As the LORD lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So he arose and followed her.

31 ゲハジはかれらに先だちゆきて杖をかの子の面の上に置たるが聲もなく聞もせざりしかばかへりきたりてエリシヤに逢てこれに子いまだ目をさまさずと言ふ

Now Gehazi went on ahead of them and placed the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or response. Therefore he came back to meet him and told him, saying, "The child did not wake up."

32 エリシヤここにおいて家に入て視に子は死ておのれの臥床の上に臥てあれば

When Elisha arrived at the house, look, the child was dead, lying on his bed.

33 すなはち入り戸をとぢて二人内におりてヱホバに祈り

So he went in and shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the LORD.

34 而してエリシヤ上りて子の上に伏し己が口をその口におのが目をその目に己が手をその手の上にあて身をもてその子を掩しに子の身體やうやく温まり來る

Then he got up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself upon him, and the body of the child grew warm.

35 かくしてエリシヤかへり來て家の内に其處此處とあゆみをり又のぼりて身をもて子をおほひしに子七度嚏して目をひらきしかば

Then he returned and walked in the house once back and forth, and went up and stretched himself upon him, and the child sneezed seven times and the child opened his eyes.

36 ゲハジを呼てかのシユナミ人をよべと言ければすなはちこれを呼り

Then he called to Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite." So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, "Pick up your son."

37 彼入來りしかばエリシヤなんぢの子を取ゆけと言りかれすなはち入りてエリシヤの足下に伏し地に身をかがめて其子を取あげて出づ

Then she came in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground. Then she picked up her son and left.

38 斯てエリシヤまたギルガルにいたりしがその地に饑饉あり預言者の徒その前に坐しをる是において彼その僕にいひけるは大なる釜をすゑて預言者の徒のために羹を煮よと

Now Elisha came again to Gilgal, while there was a famine in the land. And the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, and he said to his servant, "Put on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."

39 時に一人田野にゆきて菜蔬を摘しが野籐のあるを見て其より野瓜を一風呂鋪摘きたりて羹の釜の中に截こみたり其は皆それをしらざればなり

Then one of them went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine, and gathered as many of its gourds as his garment would hold, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, for he was unaware what it was.

40 斯てこれを盛て人々に食はせんとせしに彼等その羹を食はんとするにあたりて叫びて嗚呼神の人よ釜の中に死をきたらする者ありといひて得食はざりしかば

So they poured out for the men to eat. Now it happened, as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out, and said, "Man of God, there is death in the pot." And they could not eat it.

41 エリシヤさらば粉をもちきたれといひてこれを釜になげ入れ盛て人々に食しめよと言り釜の中にはすなはち害物あらずなりぬ

But he said, "Bring some flour." And he threw it into the pot and said, "Pour it out for the people, that they may eat." And there was no harm in the pot.

42 茲にバアルシヤリシヤより人來り初穂のパンと大麥のパン二十と圃の初物一袋とを神の人の許にもちいたりたればエリシヤ衆人にあたへて食はしめよと言ふに

Now a man from Baal Shalishah came and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said, "Give to the people, that they may eat."

43 その奴僕いひけるは如何にとや我これを百人の前にそなふべきかと然るに彼また言ふ衆人にあたへて食しめよ夫ヱホバかくいひたまふかれら食ふて尚あます所あらんと

But his servant said, "What, should I set this before a hundred men?" So he said, "Give them to the people so that they may eat, for thus says the LORD, 'They will eat, and will have some left over.'"

44 すなはち之をその前にそなへたればみな食ふてなほ餘せりヱホバの言のごとし

So he set it before them, and they ate, and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.