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モアブについての預言
1これは、モアブへの神のことばです。
「たった一夜で、アルとキルの町は灰になる。
2ディボンの住民は、災難に会ったネボとメデバを
悼もうと、泣きながら神殿へ行く。
彼らは頭をそり、ひげを切り落として悲しみ嘆く。
3荒布を着て町を歩けば、
どの家からも泣き声が聞こえる。
4ヘシュボンとエルアレの住民の叫びは、
ずっと離れたヤハツまで聞こえる。
モアブで一番勇敢な勇士でさえ、
すっかりおじ気づいて泣き声を上げる。
5わたしはモアブのために涙を流す。
人々はツォアルとエグラテ・シェリシヤまで落ち延び、
泣きながらルヒテに通じる坂道を登る。
その泣き声は、ホロナイムの道で
ひっきりなしに聞こえる。
6ニムリム川でさえ干上がり、
青々としていた土手は茶褐色に変わり、
柔らかい芽をふく木々はなくなり、見る影もない。
7避難民は両手に持てるだけの物を持ち、
命からがらアラビム川を渡って逃げる。
8モアブの全土は端から端まで泣き声で満ちる。
9ディモンの流れは血で真っ赤に染まるが、
それでもまだ、わたしはさばきの手を緩めない。
やっとの思いで逃げ延びた生き残りの者に、
ライオンを襲いかからせる。
A Prophecy Against Moab
1Here is a prophecy against Moab that the Lord gave me.
The city of Ar in Moab is destroyed.
It happened in a single night.
Kir in Moab is also destroyed.
It happened in a single night.
2The people of Dibon go up to their temple to worship.
They go to their high places to weep.
The people of Moab cry over the cities of Nebo and Medeba.
All their heads are shaved.
All their beards have been cut off.
3In the streets they wear the rough clothing people wear when they’re sad.
On their roofs and in the market places
all of them are crying.
They fall down flat with their faces toward the ground.
And they weep.
4The people of Heshbon and Elealeh cry out.
Their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.
So the fighting men of Moab cry out.
Their hearts are weak.
5My heart cries out over Moab.
Some who run away get as far as Zoar.
Others run all the way to Eglath Shelishiyah.
Others go up the hill to Luhith.
They are weeping as they go.
Still others travel the road to Horonaim.
They sing a song of sadness because their town is being destroyed.
6The waters at Nimrim are dried up.
And so is the grass.
The plants have died.
Nothing green is left.
7The people are trying to escape
through the Valley of the Poplar Trees.
They are carrying with them the wealth
they have collected and stored up.
8Their loud cries echo along the border of Moab.
They reach as far as Eglaim.
Their songs of sadness reach all the way to Beer Elim.
9The waters of the city of Dimon are full of blood.
But the Lord will bring even more trouble on Dimon.
He will bring lions against those who run away from Moab.
They will also attack those who remain in the land.
