申命記 32
1 「天よ、耳を傾けよ、わたしは語る、地よ、わたしの口の言葉を聞け。
“Listen, O heavens, to what I am saying. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2 わたしの教は雨のように降りそそぎ、わたしの言葉は露のようにしたたるであろう。若草の上に降る小雨のように、青草の上にくだる夕立ちのように。
Let my doctrine accumulate like the rain. Let my eloquence form like the dew, like a mist upon the plants, and like water droplets upon the grass.
3 わたしは主の名をのべよう、われわれの神に栄光を帰せよ。
For I will invoke the name of the Lord. Acknowledge the magnificence of our God!
4 主は岩であって、そのみわざは全く、その道はみな正しい。主は真実なる神であって、偽りなく、義であって、正である。
The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments. God is faithful and without any iniquity. He is just and upright.
5 彼らは主にむかって悪を行い、そのきずのゆえに、もはや主の子らではなく、よこしまで、曲ったやからである。
They have sinned against him, and in their filth they are not his sons. They are a depraved and perverse generation.
6 愚かな知恵のない民よ、あなたがたはこのようにして主に報いるのか。主はあなたを生み、あなたを造り、あなたを堅く立てられたあなたの父ではないか。
How can this be the return you would offer to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is he himself not your Father, who has possessed you, and made you, and created you?
7 いにしえの日を覚え、代々の年を思え。あなたの父に問え、彼はあなたに告げるであろう。長老たちに問え、彼らはあなたに語るであろう。
Remember the days of antiquity. Consider each generation. Question your father, and he will declare it to you. Question your elders, and they will tell it to you.
8 いと高き者は人の子らを分け、諸国民にその嗣業を与えられたとき、イスラエルの子らの数に照して、もろもろの民の境を定められた。
When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the limits of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
9 主の分はその民であって、ヤコブはその定められた嗣業である。
But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob, the lot of his inheritance.
10 主はこれを荒野の地で見いだし、獣のほえる荒れ地で会い、これを巡り囲んでいたわり、目のひとみのように守られた。
He discovered him in a desert land, in a place of horror and a vast wilderness. He led him around and taught him, and he guarded him like the pupil of his eye,
11 わしがその巣のひなを呼び起し、その子の上に舞いかけり、その羽をひろげて彼らをのせ、そのつばさの上にこれを負うように、
just as an eagle encourages its young to fly, and, flying above them, stretches out its wings, and takes them up, and carries them on its shoulders.
12 主はただひとりで彼を導かれて、ほかの神々はあずからなかった。
The Lord alone was his leader, and there was no strange god with him.
13 主は彼に地の高き所を乗り通らせ、田畑の産物を食わせ、岩の中から蜜を吸わせ、堅い岩から油を吸わせ、
He stood him upon an exalted land, so that he might eat the fruits of the fields, so that he might eat honey from the rock, and oil from the hardest stone,
14 牛の凝乳、羊の乳、小羊と雄羊の脂肪、バシャンの牛と雄やぎ、小麦の良い物を食わせられた。またあなたはぶどうのしるのあわ立つ酒を飲んだ。
butter from the herd, and milk from the sheep, with fat from the lambs, and with rams and goats from the sons of Bashan, with the kernel of the wheat, and so that he might drink the undiluted blood of the grape.
15 しかるにエシュルンは肥え太って、足でけった。あなたは肥え太って、つややかになり、自分を造った神を捨て、救の岩を侮った。
The beloved grew fat, and he kicked. Having grown fat and thick and wide, he abandoned God, his Maker, and he withdrew from God, his Savior.
16 彼らはほかの神々に仕えて、主のねたみを起し、憎むべきおこないをもって主の怒りをひき起した。
They provoked him with strange gods, and they stirred him to anger by their abominations.
17 彼らは神でもない悪霊に犠牲をささげた。それは彼らがかつて知らなかった神々、近ごろ出た新しい神々、先祖たちの恐れることもしなかった者である。
They immolated to demons and not to God, to gods whom they did not know, who were new and recent arrivals, whom their fathers did not worship.
18 あなたは自分を生んだ岩を軽んじ、自分を造った神を忘れた。
You have forsaken the God who conceived you, and you have forgotten the Lord who created you.
19 主はこれを見、そのむすこ、娘を怒ってそれを捨てられた。
The Lord saw, and he was stirred to anger. For his own sons and daughters provoked him.
20 そして言われた、『わたしはわたしの顔を彼らに隠そう。わたしは彼らの終りがどうなるかを見よう。彼らはそむき、もとるやから、真実のない子らである。
And he said: ‘I will hide my face from them, and I will consider their very end. For this is a perverse generation, and they are unfaithful sons.
21 彼らは神でもない者をもって、わたしにねたみを起させ、偶像をもって、わたしを怒らせた。それゆえ、わたしは民ともいえない者をもって、彼らにねたみを起させ、愚かな民をもって、彼らを怒らせるであろう。
They have provoked me with that which was not God, and they have angered me with their emptiness. And so, I will provoke them with that which is not a people, and I will anger them with a foolish nation.
A fire has been kindled in my fury, and it will burn even to the deepest Hell, and it will devour the earth with its produce, and it will burn the foundations of the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 わたしは彼らの上に災を積みかさね、わたしの矢を彼らにむかって射つくすであろう。
I will heap evils upon them, and I will expend my arrows among them.
24 彼らは飢えて、やせ衰え、熱病と悪い疫病によって滅びるであろう。わたしは彼らを獣の歯にかからせ、地に這うものの毒にあたらせるであろう。
They will be consumed by famine, and birds with a very bitter bite will devour them. I will send forth the teeth of wild beasts among them, along with the fury of creatures that scurry across the ground, and of serpents.
25 外にはつるぎ、内には恐れがあって、若き男も若き女も、乳のみ子も、しらがの人も滅びるであろう。
Outside, the sword will devastate them; and inside, there will be dread, as much for the young man as for the maiden, and as much for the newborn as for the old man.
26 わたしはまさに言おうとした、「彼らを遠く散らし、彼らの事を人々が記憶しないようにしよう」。
I said: Where are they? I will cause their memory to cease from among men.
27 しかし、わたしは敵が誇るのを恐れる。あだびとはまちがえて言うであろう、「われわれの手が勝ちをえたのだ。これはみな主がされたことではない」』。
But because of the wrath of the enemies, I have delayed it. Otherwise, perhaps their enemies would be arrogant and would say: “Our exalted hand, and not the Lord, has done all these things.”
28 彼らは思慮の欠けた民、そのうちには知識がない。
They are a nation without counsel and without prudence.
29 もし、彼らに知恵があれば、これをさとり、その身の終りをわきまえたであろうに。
I wish that they would be wise and understanding, and would provide for the very end.’
30 彼らの岩が彼らを売らず、主が彼らをわたされなかったならば、どうして、ひとりで千人を追い、ふたりで万人を敗ることができたであろう。
How is it that one pursues a thousand, and two chases ten thousand? Is it not because their God has sold them, and because the Lord has enclosed them?
31 彼らの岩はわれらの岩に及ばない。われらの敵もこれを認めている。
For our God is not like their gods. And our enemies are judges.
32 彼らのぶどうの木は、ソドムのぶどうの木から出たもの、またゴモラの野から出たもの、そのぶどうは毒ぶどう、そのふさは苦い。
Their vines are of the vines of Sodom, but from the suburbs of Gomorrah. Their grapes are the grapes of gall, and their grape clusters are most bitter.
33 そのぶどう酒はへびの毒のよう、まむしの恐ろしい毒のようである。
Their wine is the gall of snakes, and it is the incurable venom of asps.
34 これはわたしのもとにたくわえられ、わたしの倉に封じ込められているではないか。
‘Have not these things been stored up with me, and sealed up amid my treasures?
35 彼らの足がすべるとき、わたしはあだを返し、報いをするであろう。彼らの災の日は近く、彼らの破滅は、すみやかに来るであろう。
Vengeance is mine, and I will repay them in due time, so that their foot may slip and fall. The day of perdition is near, and the time rushes to appear.’
36 主はついにその民をさばき、そのしもべらにあわれみを加えられるであろう。これは彼らの力がうせ去り、つながれた者もつながれない者も、もはやいなくなったのを、主が見られるからである。
The Lord will judge his people, and he will take pity on his servants. He will see that their hand has been weakened, and that those who have been enclosed have likewise failed, and that those who have been left behind have been consumed.
37 そのとき主は言われるであろう、『彼らの神々はどこにいるか、彼らの頼みとした岩はどこにあるか。
And he shall say: ‘Where are their gods, in whom they had confidence?
38 彼らの犠牲のあぶらを食い、灌祭の酒を飲んだ者はどこにいるか。立ちあがってあなたがたを助けさせよ、あなたがたを守らせよ。
They ate the fat of their victims, and they drank the wine of their libations. So let these rise up, and bring relief to you, and protect you in your distress.
39 今見よ、わたしこそは彼である。わたしのほかに神はない。わたしは殺し、また生かし、傷つけ、またいやす。わたしの手から救い出しうるものはない。
See that I am alone, and there is no other god beside me. I will kill, and I will cause to live. I will strike, and I will heal. And there is no one who is able to rescue from my hand.
40 わたしは天にむかい手をあげて誓う、「わたしは永遠に生きる。
I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live in eternity.
41 わたしがきらめくつるぎをとぎ、手にさばきを握るとき、わたしは敵にあだを返し、わたしを憎む者に報復するであろう。
When I sharpen my sword like lightning, and my hand takes hold of judgment, then I will render vengeance to my enemies, and I will repay those who hate me.
42 わたしの矢を血に酔わせ、わたしのつるぎに肉を食わせるであろう。殺された者と捕えられた者の血を飲ませ、敵の長髪の頭の肉を食わせるであろう」』。
I will inebriate my arrows with blood, and my sword will devour flesh: from the blood of the slain and from the captive, from the exposed head of the enemies.’
43 国々の民よ、主の民のために喜び歌え。主はそのしもべの血のために報復し、その敵にあだを返し、その民の地の汚れを清められるからである」。
You nations, praise his people! For he will avenge the blood of his servants. And he will distribute vengeance to their enemies. And he will be merciful to the land of his people.”
44 モーセとヌンの子ヨシュアは共に行って、この歌の言葉を、ことごとく民に読み聞かせた。
Therefore, Moses went and spoke all the words of this canticle to the ears of the people, both he and Joshua, the son of Nun.
45 モーセはこの言葉を、ことごとくイスラエルのすべての人に告げ終って、
And he completed all these words, speaking to all of Israel.
46 彼らに言った、「あなたがたはわたしが、きょう、あなたがたに命じるこのすべての言葉を心におさめ、子供たちにもこの律法のすべての言葉を守り行うことを命じなければならない。
And he said to them: “Set your hearts upon all the words which I am testifying to you this day. So shall you command your sons, to keep, and to do, and to fulfill all the things that have been written in this law.
47 この言葉はあなたがたにとって、むなしい言葉ではない。これはあなたがたのいのちである。この言葉により、あなたがたはヨルダンを渡って行って取る地で、長く命を保つことができるであろう」。
For these things have not been entrusted to you to no purpose, but so that each one would live by them, and so that, in doing these, you may continue for a long time in the land, which you will enter upon crossing the Jordan in order to possess it.”
48 この日、主はモーセに言われた、
And the Lord spoke to Moses on the same day, saying:
49 「あなたはエリコに対するモアブの地にあるアバリム山すなわちネボ山に登り、わたしがイスラエルの人々に与えて獲させるカナンの地を見渡たせ。
“Ascend this mountain, Abarim, (that is, of crossings) onto Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and look upon the land of Canaan, which I will deliver to the sons of Israel to obtain it. And you shall die upon the mountain.
50 あなたは登って行くその山で死に、あなたの民に連なるであろう。あなたの兄弟アロンがホル山で死んでその民に連なったようになるであろう。
After climbing it, you will be joined to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor, and was placed with his people.
51 これはあなたがたがチンの荒野にあるメリバテ・カデシの水のほとりで、イスラエルの人々のうちでわたしにそむき、イスラエルの人々のうちでわたしを聖なるものとして敬わなかったからである。
For you trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel, at the Waters of Contradiction, in Kadesh, in the desert of Sin. And you did not sanctify me among the sons of Israel.
52 それであなたはわたしがイスラエルの人々に与える地を、目の前に見るであろう。しかし、その地に、はいることはできない」。
You shall see the land opposite you, which I will give to the sons of Israel, but you shall not enter into it.”
