エゼキエル書 31
1 第十一年の三月一日に主の言葉がわたしに臨んだ、
AND it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 「人の子よ、エジプトの王パロと、その民衆とに言え、あなたはその大いなること、だれに似ているか。
Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
3 見よ、わたしはあなたをレバノンの香柏のようにする。麗しき枝と森の陰があり、たけが高く、その頂は雲の中にある。
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
4 水はこれを育て、大水がこれを高くする。その川々はその植えた所をめぐって流れ、その流れを野のすべての木に送る。
The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
5 これによってそのたけは、野のすべての木よりも高くなり、その育つとき多くの水のために枝葉は茂り、枝は伸び、
Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
6 その枝葉に空のすべての鳥が、巣をつくり、その枝の下に野のすべての獣は子を生み、その陰にもろもろの国民は住む。
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
7 これはその大きなことと、その枝の長いことによって美しかった。その根を多くの水に、おろしていたからである。
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
8 神の園の香柏も、これと競うことはできない。もみの木もその枝葉に及ばない。けやきもその枝と比べられない。神の園のすべての木も、その麗しきこと、これに比すべきものはない。
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
9 わたしはその枝を多くして、これを美しくした。神の園にあるエデンの木は皆これをうらやんだ。
I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
10 それゆえ、主なる神はこう言われる、これは、たけが高くなり、その頂を雲の中におき、その心が高ぶりおごるゆえ、
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
11 わたしはこれを、もろもろの国民の力ある者の手に渡す。彼はこれに対してその悪のために正しい処置をとる。わたしはこれを追い出した。
I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
12 もろもろの国民の最も恐れている異邦人はこれを切り倒して捨てる。その枝はもろもろの山と、すべての谷とに落ち、その枝葉は砕けて、地のすべての流れにあり、地のすべての民は、その陰を離れて、これを捨てる。
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
13 その倒れた所に、空のもろもろの鳥は住み、その枝の上に、野のもろもろの獣はいる。
Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
14 これは水のほとりのすべての木が、その高さのために誇ることなく、その頂を雲の中におくことなく、水に潤う木が、みずから高ぶり立つことのないためである。これらは皆、死に渡され、下の国に入り、穴に下る者と共に他の人々のうちにいる。
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
15 主なる神はこう言われる、これが陰府に下る日にわたしが淵をこれがために悲しませ、その川々をせきとめるので、大水はとどまる。わたしはレバノンを、これがために嘆かせ、野のすべての木を、これがために衰えさせる。 (Sheol h7585)
Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. (Sheol h7585)
16 わたしがこれを穴に下る者と共に陰府に落す時、もろもろの国民をその落ちる響きのために、打ち震えさせる。そしてエデンのすべての木、レバノンのすぐれて美しいもの、すべて水に潤うものは、下の国で慰められる。 (Sheol h7585)
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. (Sheol h7585)
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. (Sheol h7585)
18 エデンの木のうちで、その栄えと大いなることで、あなたはどれに似ているのか。あなたはこのように、エデンの木と共に、下の国に落され、つるぎで殺された者と共に、割礼を受けない者のうちに住む。これがパロとその民衆であると、主なる神は言われる」。
To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
