ヨハネの黙示録 9
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. (Abyssos g12)
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. (Abyssos g12)
3 その煙の中から、いなごが地上に出て来た。彼らには、地のさそりの持つような力が与えられた。
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 そして彼らは、地の草やすべての青草や、すべての木には害を加えないで、ただ、額に神の印を押されていない人間にだけ害を加えるように言い渡された。
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5 しかし、人間を殺すことは許されず、ただ五か月の間苦しめることだけが許された。その与えた苦痛は、さそりが人を刺したときのような苦痛であった。
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he strikes a man.
6 その期間には、人々は死を求めるが、どうしても見いだせず、死を願うが、死が彼らから逃げて行くのである。
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
7 そのいなごの形は、出陣の用意の整った馬に似ていた。頭に金の冠のようなものを着け、顔は人間の顔のようであった。
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8 また女の髪のような毛があり、歯は、ししの歯のようであった。
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9 また、鉄の胸当てのような胸当てを着け、その翼の音は、多くの馬に引かれた戦車が、戦いに馳せつけるときの響きのようであった。
And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
10 そのうえ彼らは、さそりのような尾と針とを持っており、尾には、五か月間人間に害を加える力があった。
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue has his name Apollyon. (Abyssos g12)
12 第一のわざわいは過ぎ去った。見よ。この後なお二つのわざわいが来る。
One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 第六の御使いがラッパを吹き鳴らした。すると、私は神の御前にある金の祭壇の四隅から出る声を聞いた。
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 その声がラッパを持っている第六の御使いに言った。「大川ユーフラテスのほとりにつながれている四人の御使いを解き放せ。」
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 すると、定められた時、日、月、年のために用意されていた四人の御使いが、人類の三分の一を殺すために解き放された。
And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, in order to slay the third part of men.
16 騎兵の軍勢の数は二億であった。私はその数を聞いた。
And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
17 私が幻の中で見た馬とそれに乗る人たちの様子はこうであった。騎兵は、火のような赤、くすぶった青、燃える硫黄の色の胸当てを着けており、馬の頭は、ししの頭のようで、口からは火と煙と硫黄とが出ていた。
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
18 これらの三つの災害、すなわち、彼らの口から出ている火と煙と硫黄とのために、人類の三分の一は殺された。
By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
19 馬の力はその口とその尾とにあって、その尾は蛇のようであり、それに頭があって、その頭で害を加えるのである。
For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
20 これらの災害によって殺されずに残った人々は、その手のわざを悔い改めないで、悪霊どもや、金、銀、銅、石、木で造られた、見ることも聞くことも歩くこともできない偶像を拝み続け、
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 その殺人や、魔術や、不品行や、盗みを悔い改めなかった。
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
