エゼキエル書 4
Japanese Living Bible
エルサレム包囲の象徴
4 人の子よ、大きな一枚の粘土板を置いて、その上にエルサレムの町の地図を描きなさい。 2 町を攻撃するために築かれるとりで、町を包囲する敵軍の陣営、さらに城壁の回りに破城槌(城門を突破する兵器)を描きなさい。 3 また、あなたと町との間に、鉄の壁のように一枚の鉄板を立てなさい。こうして、敵軍がどのようにエルサレムを攻略するかを表現して見せるのだ。わたしが命じた一つ一つのことには、それぞれ特別の意味がある。というのは、それはイスラエルの民に対する警告だからだ。
4-5 三百九十日間、左わきを下にして横になりなさい。それは、捕囚と破滅によって三百九十年間、イスラエルが罰せられることを示すためだ。その一日は、イスラエルにやがて訪れる一年間の罰を表している。 6 次に、ユダに対する罰の期間を示すために四十日間、今度は右わきを下にして横になりなさい。やはり一日は一年に相当する。 7 その間も、エルサレムの包囲の様子を実演して見せるのだ。その包囲と攻撃がどんなに強烈なものかを教えるために、腕をまくって横になりなさい。これはエルサレム滅亡の預言だ。 8 わたしがあなたの体を動けなくさせるので、あなたは包囲の全期間が終わるまで寝返りさえ打てない。
9 初めの三百九十日間は、小麦、大麦、そら豆、レンズ豆、あわ、裸麦の粉をつぼに入れて混ぜ合わせ、その粉でパンを作って食べなさい。 10 一日に一食、一回二十シェケル(二百三十グラム)ずつに分けて食べるのだ。 11 水は一日に六分の一ヒン(一ヒンは三・八リットル)だけ飲んでよいが、それ以上飲んではならない。 12 毎日、たるから粉を取り出し、大麦のパン菓子を作りなさい。みんなの見ている前で、乾いた人糞の火の上で焼いて、そのパンを食べなさい。 13 わたしの命令だ。イスラエルは捕囚となる異国の地で、汚れたパンを食べるのだ。」
14 「おお神よ。私は人糞で身を汚さなければならないのでしょうか。今まで、一度も身を汚したことがありません。子どもの時から今まで、病気で死んだ動物や、野獣に殺された動物を食べたことはありません。また、律法が禁じている獣を食べたこともありません。」
15 すると、主は答えました。「それなら、人糞の代わりに牛の糞でもよい。」 16 主はこう言って、さらにことばを続けました。「人の子よ。エルサレムではパンの配給が乏しくなる。注意深く量り、こわごわ食べることになるだろう。水も少量しか分け与えられず、人々は不安のうちにそれを飲むようになる。 17 わたしは人々を乏しくさせる。また、異常な恐怖心を抱いて互いを見るようにし、罰によって疲れはてさせる。
Ezekiel 4
New International Version
Siege of Jerusalem Symbolized
4 “Now, son of man, take a block of clay, put it in front of you and draw the city of Jerusalem on it. 2 Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp(A) up to it, set up camps against it and put battering rams around it.(B) 3 Then take an iron pan,(C) place it as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward(D) it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign(E) to the people of Israel.(F)
4 “Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the people of Israel upon yourself.[a] You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side. 5 I have assigned you the same number of days as the years of their sin. So for 390 days you will bear the sin of the people of Israel.
6 “After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin(G) of the people of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.(H) 7 Turn your face(I) toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bared arm prophesy against her. 8 I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have finished the days of your siege.(J)
9 “Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt;(K) put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. 10 Weigh out twenty shekels[b](L) of food to eat each day and eat it at set times. 11 Also measure out a sixth of a hin[c] of water and drink it at set times.(M) 12 Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement(N) for fuel.” 13 The Lord said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”(O)
14 Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign Lord!(P) I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead(Q) or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.(R)”
15 “Very well,” he said, “I will let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement.”
16 He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off(S) the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,(T) 17 for food and water will be scarce.(U) They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of[d] their sin.(V)
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 4:4 Or upon your side
- Ezekiel 4:10 That is, about 8 ounces or about 230 grams
- Ezekiel 4:11 That is, about 2/3 quart or about 0.6 liter
- Ezekiel 4:17 Or away in
Ezekiel 4
King James Version
4 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
13 And the Lord said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
14 Then said I, Ah Lord God! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
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