| 3-1 |
And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying, |
時に主の言葉は再びヨナに臨んで言った、 |
| 3-2 |
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. |
「立って、あの大きな町ニネベに行き、あなたに命じる言葉をこれに伝えよ」。 |
| 3-3 |
So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days’ journey. |
そこでヨナは主の言葉に従い、立って、ニネベに行った。ニネベは非常に大きな町であって、これを行きめぐるには、三日を要するほどであった。 |
| 3-4 |
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. |
ヨナはその町にはいり、初め一日路を行きめぐって呼ばわり、「四十日を経たらニネベは滅びる」と言った。 |
| 3-5 |
And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. |
そこでニネベの人々は神を信じ、断食をふれ、大きい者から小さい者まで荒布を着た。 |
| 3-6 |
And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. |
このうわさがニネベの王に達すると、彼はその王座から立ち上がり、朝服を脱ぎ、荒布をまとい、灰の中に座した。 |
| 3-7 |
And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water; |
また王とその大臣の布告をもって、ニネベ中にふれさせて言った、「人も獣も牛も羊もみな、何をも味わってはならない。物を食い、水を飲んではならない。 |
| 3-8 |
but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. |
人も獣も荒布をまとい、ひたすら神に呼ばわり、おのおのその悪い道およびその手にある強暴を離れよ。 |
| 3-9 |
Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? |
あるいは神はみ心をかえ、その激しい怒りをやめて、われわれを滅ぼされないかもしれない。だれがそれを知るだろう」。 |
| 3-10 |
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not. |
神は彼らのなすところ、その悪い道を離れたのを見られ、彼らの上に下そうと言われた災を思いかえして、これをおやめになった。 |