ヨハネの黙示録 9
The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him. (Abyssos g12)
He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the shaft, like the smoke from a great furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from 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。
Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, 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。
They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who do not have God's seal on 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。
They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.
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。
In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will 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。
The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people's faces.
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。
They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those 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。
They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.
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。
They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails is their power to harm people for five months.
They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon," and in Greek, he has the 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。
The first woe is past. Look, there are still two woes coming after this.
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。
The sixth angel sounded. 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 who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at 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。
The four angels were freed who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of humanity.
16 騎兵の軍勢の数は二億であった。私はその数を聞いた。
The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million. 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。
Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.
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 plagues were one third of humanity killed: from the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded 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 the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.
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、
The rest of humanity, who were not killed with these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they would not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of bronze, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither 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。
They did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.
