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17.Esther エステル記 全10章
| 17エステル記 | Book 17 Esther | |
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| 1:1アハシュエロスすなわちインドからエチオピヤまで百二十七州を治めたアハシュエロスの世、 | 1:1 Now it happened in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces), | |
| 1:2アハシュエロス王が首都スサで、その国の位に座していたころ、 | 1:2 that in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace, | |
| 1:3その治世の第三年に、彼はその大臣および侍臣たちのために酒宴を設けた。ペルシャとメデアの将軍および貴族ならびに諸州の大臣たちがその前にいた。 | 1:3 in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him. | |
| 1:4その時、王はその盛んな国の富と、その王威の輝きと、はなやかさを示して多くの日を重ね、百八十日に及んだ。 | 1:4 He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days. | |
| 1:5これらの日が終った時、王は王の宮殿の園の庭で、首都スサにいる大小のすべての民のために七日の間、酒宴を設けた。 | 1:5 When these days were fulfilled, the king made a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Shushan the palace, both great and small, in the court of the garden of the king's palace. | |
| 1:6そこには白綿布の垂幕と青色のとばりとがあって、紫色の細布のひもで銀の輪および大理石の柱につながれていた。また長いすは金銀で作られ、石膏と大理石と真珠貝および宝石の切りはめ細工の床の上に置かれていた。 | 1:6 There were hangings of white, green, and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble. | |
| 1:7酒は金の杯で賜わり、その杯はそれぞれ違ったもので、王の大きな度量にふさわしく、王の用いる酒を惜しみなく賜わった。 | 1:7 They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king. | |
| 1:8その飲むことは法にかない、だれもしいられることはなかった。これは王が人々におのおの自分の好むようにさせよと宮廷のすべての役人に命じておいたからである。 | 1:8 In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure. | |
| 1:9王妃ワシテもまたアハシュエロス王に属する王宮の内で女たちのために酒宴を設けた。 | 1:9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus. | |
| 1:10七日目にアハシュエロス王は酒のために心が楽しくなり、王の前に仕える七人の侍従メホマン、ビズタ、ハルボナ、ビグタ、アバグタ、ゼタルおよびカルカスに命じて、 | 1:10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king, | |
| 1:11王妃ワシテに王妃の冠をかぶらせて王の前にこさせよと言った。これは彼女が美しかったので、その美しさを民らと大臣たちに見せるためであった。 | 1:11 to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful. | |
| 1:12ところが、王妃ワシテは侍従が伝えた王の命令に従って来ることを拒んだので、王は大いに憤り、その怒りが彼の内に燃えた。 | 1:12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him. | |
| 1:13そこで王は時を知っている知者に言った、 王はすべて法律と審判に通じている者に相談するのを常とした。 | 1:13 Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times, (for it was the king's custom to consult those who knew law and judgment; | |
| 1:14時に王の次にいた人々はペルシャおよびメデアの七人の大臣カルシナ、セタル、アデマタ、タルシシ、メレス、マルセナ、メムカンであった。彼らは皆王の顔を見る者で、国の首位に座する人々であった | 1:14 and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom), | |
| 1:15「王妃ワシテは、アハシュエロス王が侍従をもって伝えた命令を行わないゆえ、法律に従って彼女にどうしたらよかろうか」。 | 1:15 "What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?" | |
| 1:16メムカンは王と大臣たちの前で言った、「王妃ワシテはただ王にむかって悪い事をしたばかりでなく、すべての大臣およびアハシュエロス王の各州のすべての民にむかってもしたのです。 | 1:16 Memucan answered before the king and the princes, "Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus. | |
| 1:17王妃のこの行いはあまねくすべての女たちに聞えて、彼らはついにその目に夫を卑しめ、『アハシュエロス王は王妃ワシテに、彼の前に来るように命じたがこなかった』と言うでしょう。 | 1:17 For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn't come.' | |
| 1:18王妃のこの行いを聞いたペルシャとメデアの大臣の夫人たちもまた、今日、王のすべての大臣たちにこのように言うでしょう。そうすれば必ず卑しめと怒りが多く起ります。 | 1:18 Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's deed will tell all the king's princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath. | |
| 1:19もし王がよしとされるならば、ワシテはこの後、再びアハシュエロス王の前にきてはならないという王の命令を下し、これをペルシャとメデアの法律の中に書きいれて変ることのないようにし、そして王妃の位を彼女にまさる他の者に与えなさい。 | 1:19 "If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she. | |
| 1:20王の下される詔がこの大きな国にあまねく告げ示されるとき、妻たる者はことごとく、その夫を高下の別なく共に敬うようになるでしょう」。 | 1:20 When the king's decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small." | |
| 1:21王と大臣たちはこの言葉をよしとしたので、王はメムカンの言葉のとおりに行った。 | 1:21 This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan: | |
| 1:22王は王の諸州にあまねく書を送り、各州にはその文字にしたがい、各民族にはその言語にしたがって書き送り、すべて男子たる者はその家の主となるべきこと、また自分の民の言語を用いて語るべきことをさとした。 | 1:22 for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people. | |
| 2:1これらのことの後、アハシュエロス王の怒りがとけ、王はワシテおよび彼女のしたこと、また彼女に対して定めたことを思い起した。 | 2:1 After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. | |
| 2:2時に王に仕える侍臣たちは言った、「美しい若い処女たちを王のために尋ね求めましょう。 | 2:2 Then the king's servants who served him said, "Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king. | |
| 2:3どうぞ王はこの国の各州において役人を選び、美しい若い処女をことごとく首都スサにある婦人の居室に集めさせ、婦人をつかさどる王の侍従ヘガイの管理のもとにおいて、化粧のための品々を彼らに与えてください。 | 2:3 Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women's house, to the custody of Hegai the king's eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them; | |
| 2:4こうして御意にかなうおとめをとって、ワシテの代りに王妃としてください」。王はこの事をよしとし、そのように行った。 | 2:4 and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." The thing pleased the king, and he did so. | |
| 2:5さて首都スサにひとりのユダヤ人がいた。名をモルデカイといい、キシのひこ、シメイの孫、ヤイルの子で、ベニヤミンびとであった。 | 2:5 There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, | |
| 2:6彼はバビロンの王ネブカデネザルが捕えていったユダの王エコニヤと共に捕えられていった捕虜のひとりで、エルサレムから捕え移された者である。 | 2:6 who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. | |
| 2:7彼はそのおじの娘ハダッサすなわちエステルを養い育てた。彼女には父も母もなかったからである。このおとめは美しく、かわいらしかったが、その父母の死後、モルデカイは彼女を引きとって自分の娘としたのである。 | 2:7 He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter. | |
| 2:8王の命令と詔が伝えられ、多くのおとめが首都スサに集められて、ヘガイの管理のもとにおかれたとき、エステルもまた王宮に携え行かれ、婦人をつかさどるヘガイの管理のもとにおかれた。 | 2:8 So it happened, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was taken into the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women. | |
| 2:9このおとめはヘガイの心にかなって、そのいつくしみを得た。すなわちヘガイはすみやかに彼女に化粧の品々および食物の分け前を与え、また宮中から七人のすぐれた侍女を選んで彼女に付き添わせ、彼女とその侍女たちを婦人の居室のうちの最も良い所に移した。 | 2:9 The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king's house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women's house. | |
| 2:10エステルは自分の民のことをも、自分の同族のことをも人に知らせなかった。モルデカイがこれを知らすなと彼女に命じたからである。 | 2:10 Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known. | |
| 2:11モルデカイはエステルの様子および彼女がどうしているかを知ろうと、毎日婦人の居室の庭の前を歩いた。 | 2:11 Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women's house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her. | |
| 2:12おとめたちはおのおの婦人のための規定にしたがって十二か月を経て後、順番にアハシュエロス王の所へ行くのであった。これは彼らの化粧の期間として、没薬の油を用いること六か月、香料および婦人の化粧に使う品々を用いること六か月が定められていたからである。 | 2:12 Each young woman's turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women). | |
| 2:13こうしておとめは王の所へ行くのであった。そしておとめが婦人の居室を出て王宮へ行く時には、すべてその望む物が与えられた。 | 2:13 The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women's house to the king's house. | |
| 2:14そして夕方行って、あくる朝第二の婦人の居室に帰り、そばめたちをつかさどる王の侍従シャシガズの管理に移された。王がその女を喜び、名ざして召すのでなければ、再び王の所へ行くことはなかった。 | 2:14 In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women's house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name. | |
| 2:15さてモルデカイのおじアビハイルの娘、すなわちモルデカイが引きとって自分の娘としたエステルが王の所へ行く順番となったが、彼女は婦人をつかさどる王の侍従ヘガイが勧めた物のほか何をも求めなかった。エステルはすべて彼女を見る者に喜ばれた。 | 2:15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her. | |
| 2:16エステルがアハシュエロス王に召されて王宮へ行ったのは、その治世の第七年の十月、すなわちテベテの月であった。 | 2:16 So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. | |
| 2:17王はすべての婦人にまさってエステルを愛したので、彼女はすべての処女にまさって王の前に恵みといつくしみとを得た。王はついに王妃の冠を彼女の頭にいただかせ、ワシテに代って王妃とした。 | 2:17 The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. | |
| 2:18そして王は大いなる酒宴を催して、すべての大臣と侍臣をもてなした。エステルの酒宴がこれである。また諸州に免税を行い、王の大きな度量にしたがって贈り物を与えた。 | 2:18 Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king's bounty. | |
| 2:19二度目に処女たちが集められたとき、モルデカイは王の門にすわっていた。 | 2:19 When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate. | |
| 2:20エステルはモルデカイが命じたように、まだ自分の同族のことをも自分の民のことをも人に知らせなかった。エステルはモルデカイの言葉に従うこと、彼に養い育てられた時と少しも変らなかった。 | 2:20 Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him. | |
| 2:21そのころ、モルデカイが王の門にすわっていた時、王の侍従で、王のへやの戸を守る者のうちのビグタンとテレシのふたりが怒りのあまりアハシュエロス王を殺そうとねらっていたが、 | 2:21 In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate, two of the king's eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus. | |
| 2:22その事がモルデカイに知れたので、彼はこれを王妃エステルに告げ、エステルはこれをモルデカイの名をもって王に告げた。 | 2:22 This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai's name. | |
| 2:23その事が調べられて、それに相違ないことがあらわれたので、彼らふたりは木にかけられた。この事は王の前で日誌の書にかきしるされた。 | 2:23 When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king's presence. | |
| 3:1これらの事の後、アハシュエロス王はアガグびとハンメダタの子ハマンを重んじ、これを昇進させて、自分と共にいるすべての大臣たちの上にその席を定めさせた。 | 3:1 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him. | |
| 3:2王の門の内にいる王の侍臣たちは皆ひざまずいてハマンに敬礼した。これは王が彼についてこうすることを命じたからである。しかしモルデカイはひざまずかず、また敬礼しなかった。 | 3:2 All the king's servants who were in the king's gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn't bow down or pay him homage. | |
| 3:3そこで王の門にいる王の侍臣たちはモルデカイにむかって、「あなたはどうして王の命令にそむくのか」と言った。 | 3:3 Then the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, said to Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king's commandment?" | |
| 3:4彼らは毎日モルデカイにこう言うけれども聞きいれなかったので、その事がゆるされるかどうかを見ようと、これをハマンに告げた。なぜならモルデカイはすでに自分のユダヤ人であることを彼らに語ったからである。 | 3:4 Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn't listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew. | |
| 3:5ハマンはモルデカイのひざまずかず、また自分に敬礼しないのを見て怒りに満たされたが、 | 3:5 When Haman saw that Mordecai didn't bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath. | |
| 3:6ただモルデカイだけを殺すことを潔しとしなかった。彼らがモルデカイの属する民をハマンに知らせたので、ハマンはアハシュエロスの国のうちにいるすべてのユダヤ人、すなわちモルデカイの属する民をことごとく滅ぼそうと図った。 | 3:6 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai's people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai's people. | |
| 3:7アハシュエロス王の第十二年の正月すなわちニサンの月に、ハマンの前で、十二月すなわちアダルの月まで、一日一日のため、一月一月のために、プルすなわちくじを投げさせた。 | 3:7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. | |
| 3:8そしてハマンはアハシュエロス王に言った、「お国の各州にいる諸民のうちに、散らされて、別れ別れになっている一つの民がいます。その法律は他のすべての民のものと異なり、また彼らは王の法律を守りません。それゆえ彼らを許しておくことは王のためになりません。 | 3:8 Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than other people's. They don't keep the king's laws. Therefore it is not for the king's profit to allow them to remain. | |
| 3:9もし王がよしとされるならば、彼らを滅ぼせと詔をお書きください。そうすればわたしは王の事をつかさどる者たちの手に銀一万タラントを量りわたして、王の金庫に入れさせましょう」。 | 3:9 If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries." | |
| 3:10そこで王は手から指輪をはずし、アガグびとハンメダタの子で、ユダヤ人の敵であるハマンにわたした。 | 3:10 The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. | |
| 3:11そして王はハマンに言った、「その銀はあなたに与える。その民もまたあなたに与えるから、よいと思うようにしなさい」。 | 3:11 The king said to Haman, "The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you." | |
| 3:12そこで正月の十三日に王の書記官が召し集められ、王の総督、各州の知事および諸民のつかさたちにハマンが命じたことをことごとく書きしるした。すなわち各州に送るものにはその文字を用い、諸民に送るものにはその言語を用い、おのおのアハシュエロス王の名をもってそれを書き、王の指輪をもってそれに印を押した。 | 3:12 Then the king's scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king's satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king's ring. | |
| 3:13そして急使をもってその書を王の諸州に送り、十二月すなわちアダルの月の十三日に、一日のうちにすべてのユダヤ人を、若い者、老いた者、子供、女の別なく、ことごとく滅ぼし、殺し、絶やし、かつその貨財を奪い取れと命じた。 | 3:13 Letters were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions. | |
| 3:14この文書の写しを詔として各州に伝え、すべての民に公示して、その日のために備えさせようとした。 | 3:14 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day. | |
| 3:15急使は王の命令により急いで出ていった。この詔は首都スサで発布された。時に王とハマンは座して酒を飲んでいたが、スサの都はあわて惑った。 | 3:15 The couriers went forth in haste by the king's commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed. | |
| 4:1モルデカイはすべてこのなされたことを知ったとき、その衣を裂き、荒布をまとい、灰をかぶり、町の中へ行って大声をあげ、激しく叫んで、 | 4:1 Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly. | |
| 4:2王の門の入口まで行った。荒布をまとっては王の門の内にはいることができないからである。 | 4:2 He came even before the king's gate, for no one is allowed inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. | |
| 4:3すべて王の命令と詔をうけ取った各州ではユダヤ人のうちに大いなる悲しみがあり、断食、嘆き、叫びが起り、また荒布をまとい、灰の上に座する者が多かった。 | 4:3 In every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. | |
| 4:4エステルの侍女たちおよび侍従たちがきて、この事を告げたので、王妃は非常に悲しみ、モルデカイに着物を贈り、それを着せて、荒布を脱がせようとしたが受けなかった。 | 4:4 Esther's maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn't receive it. | |
| 4:5そこでエステルは王の侍従のひとりで、王が自分にはべらせたハタクを召し、モルデカイのもとへ行って、それは何事であるか、何ゆえであるかを尋ねて来るようにと命じた。 | 4:5 Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was. | |
| 4:6ハタクは出て、王の門の前にある町の広場にいるモルデカイのもとへ行くと、 | 4:6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king's gate. | |
| 4:7モルデカイは自分の身に起ったすべての事を彼に告げ、かつハマンがユダヤ人を滅ぼすことのために王の金庫に量り入れると約束した銀の正確な額を告げた。 | 4:7 Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews. | |
| 4:8また彼らを滅ぼさせるために、スサで発布された詔書の写しを彼にわたし、それをエステルに見せ、かつ説きあかし、彼女が王のもとへ行ってその民のために王のあわれみを請い、王の前に願い求めるように彼女に言い伝えよと言った。 | 4:8 He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people. | |
| 4:9ハタクが帰ってきてモルデカイの言葉をエステルに告げたので、 | 4:9 Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai. | |
| 4:10エステルはハタクに命じ、モルデカイに言葉を伝えさせて言った、 | 4:10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai: | |
| 4:11「王の侍臣および王の諸州の民は皆、男でも女でも、すべて召されないのに内庭にはいって王のもとへ行く者は、必ず殺されなければならないという一つの法律のあることを知っています。ただし王がその者に金の笏を伸べれば生きることができるのです。しかしわたしはこの三十日の間、王のもとへ行くべき召をこうむらないのです」。 | 4:11 "All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days." | |
| 4:12エステルの言葉をモルデカイに告げたので、 | 4:12 They told to Mordecai Esther's words. | |
| 4:13モルデカイは命じてエステルに答えさせて言った、「あなたは王宮にいるゆえ、すべてのユダヤ人と異なり、難を免れるだろうと思ってはならない。 | 4:13 Then Mordecai asked them return answer to Esther, "Don't think to yourself that you will escape in the king's house any more than all the Jews. | |
| 4:14あなたがもし、このような時に黙っているならば、ほかの所から、助けと救がユダヤ人のために起るでしょう。しかし、あなたとあなたの父の家とは滅びるでしょう。あなたがこの国に迎えられたのは、このような時のためでなかったとだれが知りましょう」。 | 4:14 For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" | |
| 4:15そこでエステルは命じてモルデカイに答えさせた、 | 4:15 Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai, | |
| 4:16「あなたは行ってスサにいるすべてのユダヤ人を集め、わたしのために断食してください。三日のあいだ夜も昼も食い飲みしてはなりません。わたしとわたしの侍女たちも同様に断食しましょう。そしてわたしは法律にそむくことですが王のもとへ行きます。わたしがもし死なねばならないのなら、死にます」。 | 4:16 "Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish." | |
| 4:17モルデカイは行って、エステルがすべて自分に命じたとおりに行った。 | 4:17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him. | |
| 5:1三日目にエステルは王妃の服を着、王宮の内庭に入り、王の広間にむかって立った。王は王宮の玉座に座して王宮の入口にむかっていたが、 | 5:1 Now it happened on the third day that Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, next to the king's house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. | |
| 5:2王妃エステルが庭に立っているのを見て彼女に恵みを示し、その手にある金の笏をエステルの方に伸ばしたので、エステルは進みよってその笏の頭にさわった。 | 5:2 When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter. | |
| 5:3王は彼女に言った、「王妃エステルよ、何を求めるのか。あなたの願いは何か。国の半ばでもあなたに与えよう」。 | 5:3 Then the king asked her, "What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom." | |
| 5:4エステルは言った、「もし王がよしとされるならば、きょうわたしが王のために設けた酒宴に、ハマンとご一緒にお臨みください」。 | 5:4 Esther said, "If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him." | |
| 5:5そこで王は「ハマンを速く連れてきて、エステルの言うようにせよ」と言い、やがて王とハマンはエステルの設けた酒宴に臨んだ。 | 5:5 Then the king said, "Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has said." So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared. | |
| 5:6酒宴の時、王はエステルに言った、「あなたの求めることは何か。必ず聞かれる。あなたの願いは何か。国の半ばでも聞きとどけられる」。 | 5:6 The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." | |
| 5:7エステルは答えて言った、「わたしの求め、わたしの願いはこれです。 | 5:7 Then Esther answered and said, "My petition and my request is this. | |
| 5:8もしわたしが王の目の前に恵みを得、また王がもしわたしの求めを許し、わたしの願いを聞きとどけるのをよしとされるならば、ハマンとご一緒に、あすまた、わたしが設けようとする酒宴に、お臨みください。わたしはあす王のお言葉どおりにいたしましょう」。 | 5:8 If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said." | |
| 5:9こうしてハマンはその日、心に喜び楽しんで出てきたが、ハマンはモルデカイが王の門にいて、自分にむかって立ちあがりもせず、また身動きもしないのを見たので、モルデカイに対し怒りに満たされた。 | 5:9 Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he didn't stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. | |
| 5:10しかしハマンは耐え忍んで家に帰り、人をやってその友だちおよび妻ゼレシを呼んでこさせ、 | 5:10 Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife. | |
| 5:11そしてハマンはその富の栄華と、そのむすこたちの多いことと、すべて王が自分を重んじられたこと、また王の大臣および侍臣たちにまさって自分を昇進させられたことを彼らに語った。 | 5:11 Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. | |
| 5:12ハマンはまた言った、「王妃エステルは酒宴を設けたが、わたしのほかはだれも王と共にこれに臨ませなかった。あすもまたわたしは王と共に王妃に招かれている。 | 5:12 Haman also said, "Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king. | |
| 5:13しかしユダヤ人モルデカイが王の門に座しているのを見る間は、これらの事もわたしには楽しくない」。 | 5:13 Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." | |
| 5:14その時、妻ゼレシとすべての友は彼に言った、「高さ五十キュビトの木を立てさせ、あすの朝、モルデカイをその上に掛けるように王に申し上げなさい。そして王と一緒に楽しんでその酒宴においでなさい」。ハマンはこの事をよしとして、その木を立てさせた。 | 5:14 Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made. | |
| 6:1その夜、王は眠ることができなかったので、命じて日々の事をしるした記録の書を持ってこさせ、王の前で読ませたが、 | 6:1 On that night, the king couldn't sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king. | |
| 6:2その中に、モルデカイがかつて王の侍従で、王のへやの戸を守る者のうちのビグタナとテレシのふたりが、アハシュエロス王を殺そうとねらっていることを告げた、としるされているのを見いだした。 | 6:2 It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus. | |
| 6:3そこで王は言った、「この事のために、どんな栄誉と爵位をモルデカイに与えたか」。王に仕える侍臣たちは言った、「何も彼に与えていません」。 | 6:3 The king said, "What honor and dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?" Then the king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him." | |
| 6:4王は言った、「庭にいるのはだれか」。この時ハマンはモルデカイのために設けた木にモルデカイを掛けることを王に申し上げようと王宮の外庭にはいってきていた。 | 6:4 The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. | |
| 6:5王の侍臣たちが「ハマンが庭に立っています」と王に言ったので、王は「ここへ、はいらせよ」と言った。 | 6:5 The king's servants said to him, "Behold, Haman stands in the court." The king said, "Let him come in." | |
| 6:6やがてハマンがはいって来ると王は言った、「王が栄誉を与えようと思う人にはどうしたらよかろうか」。ハマンは心のうちに言った、「王はわたし以外にだれに栄誉を与えようと思われるだろうか」。 | 6:6 So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" Now Haman said in his heart, "Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?" | |
| 6:7ハマンは王に言った、「王が栄誉を与えようと思われる人のためには、 | 6:7 Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor, | |
| 6:8王の着られた衣服を持ってこさせ、また王の乗られた馬、すなわちその頭に王冠をいただいた馬をひいてこさせ、 | 6:8 let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a crown royal is set. | |
| 6:9その衣服と馬とを王の最も尊い大臣のひとりの手にわたして、王が栄誉を与えようと思われる人にその衣服を着させ、またその人を馬に乗せ、町の広場を導いて通らせ、『王が栄誉を与えようと思う人にはこうするのだ』とその前に呼ばわらせなさい」。 | 6:9 Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, 'Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!'" | |
| 6:10それで王はハマンに言った、「急いであなたが言ったように、その衣服と馬とを取り寄せ、王の門に座しているユダヤ人モルデカイにそうしなさい。あなたが言ったことを一つも欠いてはならない」。 | 6:10 Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken." | |
| 6:11そこでハマンは衣服と馬とを取り寄せ、モルデカイにその衣服を着せ、彼を馬に乗せて町の広場を通らせ、その前に呼ばわって、「王が栄誉を与えようと思う人にはこうするのだ」と言った。 | 6:11 Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!" | |
| 6:12こうしてモルデカイは王の門に帰ってきたが、ハマンは憂え悩み、頭をおおって急いで家に帰った。 | 6:12 Mordecai came back to the king's gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered. | |
| 6:13そしてハマンは自分の身に起った事をことごとくその妻ゼレシと友だちに告げた。するとその知者たちおよび妻ゼレシは彼に言った、「あのモルデカイ、すなわちあなたがその人の前に敗れ始めた者が、もしユダヤ人の子孫であるならば、あなたは彼に勝つことはできない。必ず彼の前に敗れるでしょう」。 | 6:13 Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him." | |
| 6:14彼らがなおハマンと話している時、王の侍従たちがきてハマンを促し、エステルが設けた酒宴に臨ませた。 | 6:14 While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared. | |
| 7:1王とハマンは王妃エステルの酒宴に臨んだ。 | 7:1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. | |
| 7:2このふつか目の酒宴に王はまたエステルに言った、「王妃エステルよ、あなたの求めることは何か。必ず聞かれる。あなたの願いは何か。国の半ばでも聞きとどけられる」。 | 7:2 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." | |
| 7:3王妃エステルは答えて言った、「王よ、もしわたしが王の目の前に恵みを得、また王がもしよしとされるならば、わたしの求めにしたがってわたしの命をわたしに与え、またわたしの願いにしたがってわたしの民をわたしに与えてください。 | 7:3 Then Esther the queen answered, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. | |
| 7:4わたしとわたしの民は売られて滅ぼされ、殺され、絶やされようとしています。もしわたしたちが男女の奴隷として売られただけなら、わたしは黙っていたでしょう。わたしたちの難儀は王の損失とは比較にならないからです」。 | 7:4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's loss." | |
| 7:5アハシュエロス王は王妃エステルに言った、「そんな事をしようと心にたくらんでいる者はだれか。またどこにいるのか」。 | 7:5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, "Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?" | |
| 7:6エステルは言った、「そのあだ、その敵はこの悪いハマンです」。そこでハマンは王と王妃の前に恐れおののいた。 | 7:6 Esther said, "An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. | |
| 7:7王は怒って酒宴の席を立ち、宮殿の園へ行ったが、ハマンは残って王妃エステルに命ごいをした。彼は王が自分に害を加えようと定めたのを見たからである。 | 7:7 The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. | |
| 7:8王が宮殿の園から酒宴の場所に帰ってみると、エステルのいた長いすの上にハマンが伏していたので、王は言った、「彼はまたわたしの家で、しかもわたしの前で王妃をはずかしめようとするのか」。この言葉が王の口から出たとき、人々は、ハマンの顔をおおった。 | 7:8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?" As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. | |
| 7:9その時、王に付き添っていたひとりの侍従ハルボナが「王のためによい事を告げたあのモルデカイのためにハマンが用意した高さ五十キュビトの木がハマンの家に立っています」と言ったので、王は「彼をそれに掛けよ」と言った。 | 7:9 Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, "Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman's house." The king said, "Hang him on it!" | |
| 7:10そこで人々はハマンをモルデカイのために備えてあったその木に掛けた。こうして王の怒りは和らいだ。 | 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. | |
| 8:1その日アハシュエロス王は、ユダヤ人の敵ハマンの家を王妃エステルに与えた。モルデカイは王の前にきた。これはエステルが自分とモルデカイがどんな関係の者であるかを告げたからである。 | 8:1 On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews' enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her. | |
| 8:2王はハマンから取り返した自分の指輪をはずして、モルデカイに与えた。エステルはモルデカイにハマンの家を管理させた。 | 8:2 The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. | |
| 8:3エステルは再び王の前に奏し、その足もとにひれ伏して、アガグびとハマンの陰謀すなわち彼がユダヤ人に対して企てたその計画を除くことを涙ながらに請い求めた。 | 8:3 Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews. | |
| 8:4王はエステルにむかって金の笏を伸べたので、エステルは身を起して王の前に立ち、 | 8:4 Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king. | |
| 8:5そして言った、「もし王がよしとされ、わたしが王の前に恵みを得、またこの事が王の前に正しいと見え、かつわたしが王の目にかなうならば、アガグびとハンメダタの子ハマンが王の諸州にいるユダヤ人を滅ぼそうとはかって書き送った書を取り消す旨を書かせてください。 | 8:5 She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces. | |
| 8:6どうしてわたしは、わたしの民に臨もうとする災を、だまって見ていることができましょうか。どうしてわたしの同族の滅びるのを、だまって見ていることができましょうか」。 | 8:6 For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?" | |
| 8:7アハシュエロス王は王妃エステルとユダヤ人モルデカイに言った、「ハマンがユダヤ人を殺そうとしたので、わたしはハマンの家をエステルに与え、またハマンを木に掛けさせた。 | 8:7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, "See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews. | |
| 8:8あなたがたは自分たちの思うままに王の名をもってユダヤ人についての書をつくり、王の指輪をもってそれに印を押すがよい。王の名をもって書き、王の指輪をもって印を押した書はだれも取り消すことができない」。 | 8:8 Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring; for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may not be reversed by any man." | |
| 8:9その時王の書記官が召し集められた。それは三月すなわちシワンの月の二十三日であった。そしてインドからエチオピヤまでの百二十七州にいる総督、諸州の知事および大臣たちに、モルデカイがユダヤ人について命じたとおりに書き送った。すなわち各州にはその文字を用い、各民族にはその言語を用いて書き送り、ユダヤ人に送るものにはその文字と言語とを用いた。 | 8:9 Then the king's scribes were called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language. | |
| 8:10その書はアハシュエロス王の名をもって書かれ、王の指輪をもって印を押し、王の御用馬として、そのうまやに育った早馬に乗る急使によって送られた。 | 8:10 He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bread from swift steeds. | |
| 8:11その中で、王はすべての町にいるユダヤ人に、彼らが相集まって自分たちの生命を保護し、自分たちを襲おうとする諸国、諸州のすべての武装した民を、その妻子もろともに滅ぼし、殺し、絶やし、かつその貨財を奪い取ることを許した。 | 8:11 In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions, | |
| 8:12ただしこの事をアハシュエロス王の諸州において、十二月すなわちアダルの月の十三日に、一日のうちに行うことを命じた。 | 8:12 on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. | |
| 8:13この書いた物の写しを詔として各州に伝え、すべての民に公示して、ユダヤ人に、その日のために備えして、その敵にあだをかえさせようとした。 | 8:13 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves on their enemies. | |
| 8:14王の御用馬である早馬に乗った急使は、王の命によって急がされ、せきたてられて出て行った。この詔は首都スサで出された。 | 8:14 So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. | |
| 8:15モルデカイは青と白の朝服を着、大きな金の冠をいただき、紫色の細布の上着をまとって王の前から出て行った。スサの町中、声をあげて喜んだ。 | 8:15 Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad. | |
| 8:16ユダヤ人には光と喜びと楽しみと誉があった。 | 8:16 The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor. | |
| 8:17いずれの州でも、いずれの町でも、すべて王の命令と詔の伝達された所では、ユダヤ人は喜び楽しみ、酒宴を開いてこの日を祝日とした。そしてこの国の民のうち多くの者がユダヤ人となった。これはユダヤ人を恐れる心が彼らのうちに起ったからである。 | 8:17 In every province, and in every city, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them. | |
| 9:1十二月すなわちアダルの月の十三日、王の命令と詔の行われる時が近づいたとき、すなわちユダヤ人の敵が、ユダヤ人を打ち伏せようと望んでいたのに、かえってユダヤ人が自分たちを憎む者を打ち伏せることとなったその日に、 | 9:1 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them), | |
| 9:2ユダヤ人はアハシュエロス王の各州にある自分たちの町々に集まり、自分たちに害を加えようとする者を殺そうとしたが、だれもユダヤ人に逆らうことのできるものはなかった。すべての民がユダヤ人を恐れたからである。 | 9:2 the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people. | |
| 9:3諸州の大臣、総督、知事および王の事をつかさどる者は皆ユダヤ人を助けた。彼らはモルデカイを恐れたからである。 | 9:3 All the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and those who did the king's business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. | |
| 9:4モルデカイは王の家で大いなる者となり、その名声は各州に聞えわたった。この人モルデカイがますます勢力ある者となったからである。 | 9:4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater. | |
| 9:5そこでユダヤ人はつるぎをもってすべての敵を撃って殺し、滅ぼし、自分たちを憎む者に対し心のままに行った。 | 9:5 The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them. | |
| 9:6ユダヤ人はまた首都スサにおいても五百人を殺し、滅ぼした。 | 9:6 In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men. | |
| 9:7またパルシャンダタ、ダルポン、アスパタ、 | 9:7 They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, | |
| 9:8ポラタ、アダリヤ、アリダタ、 | 9:8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, | |
| 9:9パルマシタ、アリサイ、アリダイ、ワエザタ、 | 9:9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha, | |
| 9:10すなわちハンメダタの子で、ユダヤ人の敵であるハマンの十人の子をも殺した。しかし、そのぶんどり物には手をかけなかった。 | 9:10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder. | |
| 9:11その日、首都スサで殺された者の数が王に報告されると、 | 9:11 On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king. | |
| 9:12王は王妃エステルに言った、「ユダヤ人は首都スサで五百人を殺し、またハマンの十人の子を殺した。王のその他の諸州ではどんなに彼らは殺したことであろう。さてあなたの求めることは何か。必ず聞かれる。更にあなたの願いは何か。必ず聞きとどけられる」。 | 9:12 The king said to Esther the queen, "The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done." | |
| 9:13エステルは言った、「もし王がよしとされるならば、どうぞスサにいるユダヤ人にあすも、きょうの詔のように行うことをゆるしてください。かつハマンの十人の子を木に掛けさせてください」。 | 9:13 Then Esther said, "If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged on the gallows." | |
| 9:14王はそうせよと命じたので、スサにおいて詔が出て、ハマンの十人の子は木に掛けられた。 | 9:14 The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons. | |
| 9:15アダルの月の十四日にまたスサにいるユダヤ人が集まり、スサで三百人を殺した。しかし、そのぶんどり物には手をかけなかった。 | 9:15 The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn't lay their hand on the spoil. | |
| 9:16王の諸州にいる他のユダヤ人もまた集まって、自分たちの生命を保護し、その敵に勝って平安を得、自分たちを憎む者七万五千人を殺した。しかし、そのぶんどり物には手をかけなかった。 | 9:16 The other Jews who were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder. | |
| 9:17これはアダルの月の十三日であって、その十四日に休んで、その日を酒宴と喜びの日とした。 | 9:17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness. | |
| 9:18しかしスサにいるユダヤ人は十三日と十四日に集まり、十五日に休んで、その日を酒宴と喜びの日とした。 | 9:18 But the Jews who were in Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. | |
| 9:19それゆえ村々のユダヤ人すなわち城壁のない町々に住む者はアダルの月の十四日を喜びの日、酒宴の日、祝日とし、互に食べ物を贈る日とした。 | 9:19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another. | |
| 9:20モルデカイはこれらのことを書きしるしてアハシュエロス王の諸州にいるすべてのユダヤ人に、近い者にも遠い者にも書を送り、 | 9:20 Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far, | |
| 9:21アダルの月の十四日と十五日とを年々祝うことを命じた。 | 9:21 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly, | |
| 9:22すなわちこの両日にユダヤ人がその敵に勝って平安を得、またこの月は彼らのために憂いから喜びに変り、悲しみから祝日に変ったので、これらを酒宴と喜びの日として、互に食べ物を贈り、貧しい者に施しをする日とせよとさとした。 | 9:22 as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy. | |
| 9:23そこでユダヤ人は彼らがすでに始めたように、またモルデカイが彼らに書き送ったように、行うことを約束した。 | 9:23 The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them; | |
| 9:24これはアガグびとハンメダタの子ハマン、すなわちすべてのユダヤ人の敵がユダヤ人を滅ぼそうとはかり、プルすなわちくじを投げて彼らを絶やし、滅ぼそうとしたが、 | 9:24 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast "Pur," that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; | |
| 9:25エステルが王の前にきたとき、王は書を送って命じ、ハマンがユダヤ人に対して企てたその悪い計画をハマンの頭上に臨ませ、彼とその子らを木に掛けさせたからである。 | 9:25 but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. | |
| 9:26このゆえに、この両日をプルの名にしたがってプリムと名づけた。そしてこの書のすべての言葉により、またこの事について見たところ、自分たちの会ったところによって、 | 9:26 Therefore they called these days "Purim, {Purim is the Hebrew plural for pur, which means lot.}" from the word "Pur." Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them, | |
| 9:27ユダヤ人は相定め、年々その書かれているところにしたがい、その定められた時にしたがって、この両日を守り、自分たちと、その子孫およびすべて自分たちにつらなる者はこれを行い続けて廃することなく、 | 9:27 the Jews established, and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year; | |
| 9:28この両日を、代々、家々、州々、町々において必ず覚えて守るべきものとし、これらのプリムの日がユダヤ人のうちに廃せられることのないようにし、またこの記念がその子孫の中に絶えることのないようにした。 | 9:28 and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor their memory perish from their seed. | |
| 9:29さらにアビハイルの娘である王妃エステルとユダヤ人モルデカイは、権威をもってこのプリムの第二の書を書き、それを確かめた。 | 9:29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim. | |
| 9:30そしてアハシュエロスの国の百二十七州にいるすべてのユダヤ人に、平和と真実の言葉をもって書を送り、 | 9:30 He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth, | |
| 9:31断食と悲しみのことについて、ユダヤ人モルデカイと王妃エステルが、かつてユダヤ人に命じたように、またユダヤ人たちが、かつて自分たちとその子孫のために定めたように、プリムのこれらの日をその定めた時に守らせた。 | 9:31 to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry. | |
| 9:32エステルの命令はプリムに関するこれらの事を確定した。またこれは書にしるされた。 | 9:32 The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book. | |
| 10:1アハシュエロス王はその国および海に沿った国々にみつぎを課した。 | 10:1 King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea. | |
| 10:2彼の権力と勢力によるすべての事業、および王がモルデカイを高い地位にのぼらせた事の詳しい話はメデアとペルシャの王たちの日誌の書にしるされているではないか。 | 10:2 All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? | |
| 10:3ユダヤ人モルデカイはアハシュエロス王に次ぐ者となり、ユダヤ人の中にあって大いなる者となり、その多くの兄弟に喜ばれた。彼はその民の幸福を求め、すべての国民に平和を述べたからである。 | 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants. |