Zechariah 5

1 I looked up again, and I saw a scroll that was flying [through the air].

我また目を擧て觀しに卷物の飛あり

2 The angel asked me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a flying scroll that is [huge], (10 yards/9 meters) long and (5 yards/4.5 meters) wide.”

彼われに汝何を見るやと言ければ我言ふ我卷物の飛ぶを見る其長は二十キユビトその寛は十キユビト

3 Then he said to me, “On this scroll is written the [words that Yahweh is speaking to] curse the entire country. On [one side of] the scroll it is written that every thief will be banished. On [the other side] it is written that everyone who tells a lie when he is solemnly promising to tell the truth will also be banished from the country.

彼またわれに言けるは是は全地の表面を往めぐる呪詛の言なり凡て竊む者は卷物のこの面に照して除かれ凡て誓ふ者は卷物の彼の面に照して除かるべし

4 The Commander of the armies of angels says, ‘I will send [copies of] this scroll to the places where thieves live and to the houses of those who use my name when they solemnly promise to tell the truth. [The copies of] this scroll will stay in their houses, until those houses and all their wood and stones are destroyed.’”

萬軍のヱホバのたまふ我これを出せり是は竊盗者の家に入りまた我名を指て僞り誓ふ者の家に入てその家の中に宿りその木と石とを並せて盡く之を燒べしと

5 Then the angel who had been talking to me came closer to me and said, “Look up and see what is appearing!”

我に語へる天の使進み來りて我に言けるは請ふ目を擧てこの出きたれる物の何なるを見よ

6 I asked him, “What is it?” He replied, “It is a big basket [for measuring grain]. But it represents the sins that everyone in this nation has committed.”

これは何なるやと我言ければ彼言ふ此出來れる者はエパ舛なり又言ふ全地において彼等の形状は是のごとしと

7 Then [the angel] lifted the basket’s cover, [which was made] of lead. There was a woman sitting inside the basket!

かくて鉛の圓き蓋を取あぐれば一人の婦人エパ舛の中に坐し居る

8 The angel said, “She represents the wicked things [that people do].” Then the angel pushed her back into the basket and closed the very heavy lid [again].

彼是は罪惡なりと言てその婦人をエパ舛の中に投いれ鉛の錘をその舛の口に投かぶらせたり

9 Then I looked up and saw two women in front of me. They [were flying toward us], with their wings spread out in the wind. Their wings were [large], like [SIM] storks’ wings. They lifted the big basket up into the sky.

我また目を擧て觀しに婦人二人出きたれり之に鶴の翼のごとき翼ありてその翼風を含む彼等そのエパ舛を天地の間に持擧ぐ

10 I asked the angel who had been talking to me, “Where are they taking that basket?”

我すなはち我に語ふ天の使にむかひて彼等エパ舛を何處へ携へゆくなるやと言けるに

11 He replied, “[They are taking it] to Babylonia to build a temple for it. When the temple is finished, they will set the basket there on a pedestal [for people to worship it].”

彼我に言ふシナルの地にて之がために家を建んとてなり是は彼處に置られてその臺の上に立ん