エゼキエル書 1
1 第三十年四月五日に、わたしがケバル川のほとりで、捕囚の人々のうちにいた時、天が開けて、神の幻を見た。
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of God.
2 これはエホヤキン王の捕え移された第五年であって、その月の五日に、
On the fifth day of the month, the same was the fifth year of the captivity of king Joachin,
3 主の言葉がケバル川のほとり、カルデヤびとの地でブジの子祭司エゼキエルに臨み、主の手がその所で彼の上にあった。
The word of the Lord came to Ezechiel the priest the son of Bud in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chobar: and the hand of the Lord was there upon him.
4 わたしが見ていると、見よ、激しい風と大いなる雲が北から来て、その周囲に輝きがあり、たえず火を吹き出していた。その火の中に青銅のように輝くものがあった。
And I saw, and behold a whirlwind came out of the north: and a great cloud, and a fire infolding it, and brightness was about it: and out of the midst thereof, that is, out of the midst of the fire, as it were the resemblance of amber:
5 またその中から四つの生きものの形が出てきた。その様子はこうである。彼らは人の姿をもっていた。
And in the midst thereof the likeness of four living creatures: and this was their appearance: there was the likeness of a man in them.
6 おのおの四つの顔をもち、またそのおのおのに四つの翼があった。
Every one had four faces, and every one four wings.
7 その足はまっすぐで、足のうらは子牛の足のうらのようであり、みがいた青銅のように光っていた。
Their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their foot was like the sole of a calf’s foot, and they sparkled like the appearance of glowing brass.
8 その四方に、そのおのおのの翼の下に人の手があった。この四つの者はみな顔と翼をもち、
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides: and they bad faces, and wings on the four sides,
9 翼は互に連なり、行く時は回らずに、おのおの顔の向かうところにまっすぐに進んだ。
And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another. They turned not when they went: but every one went straight forward.
10 顔の形は、おのおのその前方に人の顔をもっていた。四つの者は右の方に、ししの顔をもち、四つの者は左の方に牛の顔をもち、また四つの者は後ろの方に、わしの顔をもっていた。
And as for the likeness of their faces: there was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side of all the four: and the face of an ox, on the left side of all the four: and the face of an eagle over all the four.
11 彼らの顔はこのようであった。その翼は高く伸ばされ、その二つは互に連なり、他の二つをもってからだをおおっていた。
And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward: two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies:
12 彼らはおのおのその顔の向かうところへまっすぐに行き、霊の行くところへ彼らも行き、その行く時は回らない。
And every one of them went straight forward: whither the impulse of the spirit was to go, thither they went: and they turned not when they went.
13 この生きもののうちには燃える炭の火のようなものがあり、たいまつのように、生きものの中を行き来している。火は輝いて、その火から、いなずまが出ていた。
And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like that of burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps. This was the vision running to and fro in the midst of the living creatures, a bright fire, and lightning going forth from the fire.
14 生きものは、いなずまのひらめきのように速く行き来していた。
And the living creatures ran and returned like flashes of lightning.
15 わたしが生きものを見ていると、生きもののかたわら、地の上に輪があった。四つの生きものおのおのに、一つずつの輪である。
Now as I beheld the living creatures, there appeared upon the earth by the living creatures one wheel with four faces.
16 もろもろの輪の形と作りは、光る貴かんらん石のようである。四つのものは同じ形で、その作りは、あたかも、輪の中に輪があるようである。
And the appearance of the wheels, and the work of them was like the appearance of the sea: and the four had all one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the midst of a wheel.
17 その行く時、彼らは四方のいずれかに行き、行く時は回らない。
When they went, they went by their four parts: and they turned not when they went.
18 四つの輪には輪縁と輻とがあり、その輪縁の周囲は目をもって満たされていた。
The wheels had also a size, and a height, and a dreadful appearance: and the whole body was full of eyes round about all the four.
19 生きものが行く時には、輪もそのかたわらに行き、生きものが地からあがる時は、輪もあがる。
And when the living creatures went, the wheels also went together by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels also were lifted up with them.
20 霊の行く所には彼らも行き、輪は彼らに伴ってあがる。生きものの霊が輪の中にあるからである。
Whithersoever the spirit went, thither as the spirit went the wheels also were lifted up withal, and followed it: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
21 彼らが行く時は、これらも行き、彼らがとどまる時は、これらもとどまり、彼らが地からあがる時は、輪もまたこれらと共にあがる。生きものの霊が輪の中にあるからである。
When those went these went, and when those stood these stood, and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels also were lifted up together, and followed them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
22 生きものの頭の上に水晶のように輝く大空の形があって、彼らの頭の上に広がっている。、
And over the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of the firmament, as the appearance of crystal terrible to behold, and stretched out over their heads above.
23 大空の下にはまっすぐに伸ばした翼があり、たがいに相連なり、生きものはおのおの二つの翼をもって、からだをおおっている。
And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other, every one with two wings covered his body, and the other was covered in like manner.
24 その行く時、わたしは大水の声、全能者の声のような翼の声を聞いた。その声の響きは大軍の声のようで、そのとどまる時は翼をたれる。
And I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, as it were the voice of the most high God: when they walked, it was like the voice of a multitude, like the noise of an army, and when they stood, their wings were let down.
25 また彼らの頭の上の大空から声があった。彼らが立ちとどまる時は翼をおろした。
For when a voice came from above the firmament, that was over their heads, they stood, and let down their wings.
26 彼らの頭の上の大空の上に、サファイヤのような位の形があった。またその位の形の上に、人の姿のような形があった。
And above the firmament that was over their heads, was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of the sapphire stone, and upon the likeness of the throne, was a likeness as of the appearance of a man above upon it.
27 そしてその腰とみえる所の上の方に、火の形のような光る青銅の色のものが、これを囲んでいるのを見た。わたしはその腰とみえる所の下の方に、火のようなものを見た。そして彼のまわりに輝きがあった。
And I saw as it were the resemblance of amber as the appearance of fire within it round about: from his loins and upward, and from his loins downward, I saw as it were the resemblance of fire shining round about.
28 そのまわりにある輝きのさまは、雨の日に雲に起るにじのようであった。主の栄光の形のさまは、このようであった。わたしはこれを見て、わたしの顔をふせたとき、語る者の声を聞いた。
As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in a cloud on a rainy day: this was the appearance of the brightness round about.
