民数記 24

1 バラムはイスラエルを祝することのヱホバの心に適ふを視たれば此度は前の時のごとくに往て法術を求むる事を爲ずその面を曠野に向て居り

And when Balaam had seen that it was pleasing to the Lord that he should bless Israel, he by no means went out as he had gone before, to seek divination. But directing his face opposite the desert,

2 バラム目を擧てイスラエルのその支派にしたがひて居るを觀たり時に神の霊かれに臨みければ

and lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel dwelling in tents by their tribes. And with the Spirit of God rushing into him,

3 彼すなはちこの歌をのべて云くベオルの子バラム言ふ目の啓きたる人言ふ

taking up his parable, he said: “Balaam, the son of Beor, the man whose eye has been obstructed,

4 神の言詞を聞し者能はざる無き者をまぼろしに觀し者倒れ臥て其目の啓けたる者言ふ

the hearer of the sermon of God, he who has gazed upon a vision of the Almighty, he who falls down and so his eyes are opened, has declared:

5 ヤコブよ汝の天幕は美しき哉イスラエルよ汝の住所は美しき哉

‘How beautiful are your tabernacles, O Jacob, and your tents, O Israel!

6 是は谷々のごとくに布列ね河邊の園のごとくヱホバの栽し沈香樹のごとく水の邊の香柏のごとし

They are like forested valleys, like gardens irrigated next to rivers, like tabernacles which the Lord has fixed, like cedars close to waters.

7 その桶よりは水溢れんその種は水の邊に發育んその王はアガグよりも高くなりその國は振ひ興らん

Water shall flow from his jar, and his offspring shall be amid many waters, because Agag, his king, shall be taken, and his kingdom shall be removed.

8 神これをエジプトより導き出せり是は強きこと兕のごとくその敵なる國々の民を呑つくしその骨を摧き矢をもて之を衝とほさん

Away from Egypt, God has led him, whose strength is like the rhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his enemies, and break their bones, and pierce them with arrows.

9 是は牡獅子のごとくに身をかがめ牝獅子のごとくに臥す誰か敢てこれを起さんやなんぢを祝するものは福祉を得なんぢをのろふものは災禍をかうむるべし

Lying down, he has slept like a lion, and like a lioness, whom no one would dare to awaken. He who blesses you, shall himself also be blessed. He who curses you, shall be considered cursed.”

10 ここにおいてバラクはバラムにむかひて怒を發しその手を拍ならせり而してバラク、バラムにいひけるは我はなんぢをしてわが敵を詛はしめんとてなんぢを招きたるに汝は却て斯三度までも彼らを大に祝したり

And Balak, being angry against Balaam, clapped his hands together and said: “I called you to curse my enemies, and, to the contrary, you have blessed them three times.

11 然ば汝今汝の處に奔り往け我は汝に大なる尊榮を得させんと思ひたれどヱホバ汝を阻めて尊榮を得るに至らざらしむ

Return to your place. I had decided, indeed, to honor you greatly, but the Lord has deprived you of the designated honor.”

12 バラム、バラクに言けるは我は汝が我に遣しし使者等に告て言ざりしや

Balaam responded to Balak: “Did I not say to your messengers, whom you sent to me:

13 假令バラクその家に盈るほどの金銀を我に與ふるとも我はヱホバの言を踰て自己の心のままに善も惡きも爲ことを得ず我はヱホバの宣まふ事のみを言べしと

Even if Balak would give me his house, filled with silver and gold, I still could not go away from the word of the Lord my God, so as to offer anything, either good or evil, from my own heart; but whatever the Lord will speak, this, too, I shall speak.

14 今われは吾民にかへる然ば來れ我この民が後の日に汝の民に爲んところの事を汝に告しらせんと

Yet truly, as I continue on to my own people, I will give you counsel as to what this people shall do to your people in the end times.”

15 すなはちこの歌をのべて云くベオルの子バラム言ふ目の啓きたる人言ふ

Therefore, taking up his parable, he again spoke: “Balaam the son of Beor, the man whose eye has been obstructed,

16 神の言を聞るあり至高者を知の知識あり能はざる無き者をまぼろしに觀倒れ臥て其目の啓けたる者言ふ

the hearer of the sermon of God, he who knows the doctrine of the Most High, and who sees the visions of the Almighty, who, falling down, has his eyes opened, has declared:

17 我これを見ん然ど今にあらず我これを望まん然ど近くはあらずヤコブより一箇の星いでんイスラエルより一條の杖おこりモアブを此旁より彼旁に至まで撃破りまた鼓譟者どもを盡く滅すべし

I shall see him, but not presently. I shall gaze upon him, but not soon. A star shall rise out of Jacob, and a rod shall spring up from Israel. And he shall strike down the commanders of Moab, and he shall devastate all the sons of Seth.

18 其敵なるエドムは是が產業となりセイルは之が產業とならんイスラエルは盛になるべし

And he shall possess Idumea; the inheritance of Seir shall fall to their enemies. Yet truly, Israel shall act with strength.

19 權を秉る者ヤコブより出で遺れる者等を城より滅し絶ん

From Jacob will be he who shall be ruler. And he shall perish the remnants of the city.”

20 バラム又アマレクを望みこの歌をのべて云くアマレクは國々の中の最初なる者なり其終には滅び絶るに至らん

And when he saw Amalek, taking up his parable, he said: “Amalek, first among the Gentiles, whose very end shall be perdition.”

21 亦ケニ人を望みこの歌をのべて云く汝の住所は堅固なり汝は磐に巣をつくる

Likewise, he saw the Kainites, and taking up his parable, he said: “Robust, indeed, is your habitation. But though you will set your nest in a rock,

22 然どカインは亡て終にアッスリアの爲に擄へ移されん

and you will be elect among the stock of Kain, how long will you be able to remain? For Assur shall take you captive.”

23 彼亦この歌をのべて云く嗟神これを爲たまはん時は誰か生ることを得ん

And taking up his parable once more he said: “Alas! Who will be able to survive, when God will do these things?

24 キッテムの方より船來てアッスリアを攻なやましエベルを攻なやますべし而して是もまた終に亡失ん

They shall arrive in Greek warships from Italy. They shall overcome the Assyrians, and they shall devastate the Hebrews, and yet, at the very end, even they themselves shall perish.”

25 斯てバラムは起あがりて自己の處に歸り往きぬバラクも亦去ゆけり

And Balaam rose up, and he returned to his place. Likewise, Balak went back, along the way by which he had arrived.