8:1 主はヨシュアに言われた。「恐れてはならない。おののいてはならない。全軍隊を引き連れてアイに攻め上りなさい。アイの王も民も町も周辺の土地もあなたの手に渡す。 8:2 エリコとその王にしたように、アイとその王にしなさい。ただし、分捕り物と家畜は自分たちのために奪い取ってもよい。あなたは、町を裏手からうかがうように伏兵を置け。」 8:3 ヨシュアは全軍隊を率いて行動を起こし、アイへ攻め上った。ヨシュアは三万の勇士をえりすぐって夜の間に送り込み、 8:4 彼らに命じた。「見よ、あなたたちは裏手から町をうかがう伏兵であるから、町からあまり離れず、全員、態勢を整えておきなさい。 8:5 その他の全軍はわたしと共に町に近づく。敵がこの前と同様、我々を迎え撃とうと出て来たなら、我々は退却する。 8:6 敵は、我々がこの前と同様、退却して行くと思って、追撃して来るであろう。そうすれば彼らを町からおびき出せる。我々が退却している間に、 8:7 あなたたちは待ち伏せしている所から出て、町を占領しなさい。あなたたちの神、主は町をあなたたちの手に渡してくださる。 8:8 町を取ったらこれに火を放ち、主の言葉どおり行いなさい。見よ、わたしはこう、あなたたちに命じている。」 8:9 ヨシュアがこうして、彼らを遣わしたので、彼らはアイの西側、ベテルとアイの間の待ち伏せの場所に行って待機した。民と共にその夜を過ごしたヨシュアは、 8:10 翌朝早く起きて民を召集し、イスラエルの長老たちと共に、その先頭に立ってアイに向かって上った。 8:11 ヨシュアに率いられた全軍は攻め上って、町の入り口近くに達し、谷一つ隔ててアイの北側に陣を敷いた。 8:12 彼は約五千人を選び、伏兵として町の西側、ベテルとアイの間に配置した。 8:13 その他の兵は町の北側にすべての宿営を張ったが、最後部は町の西に達していた。その晩、ヨシュアは平野へ下って行った。 8:14 それはアイの王の知るところとなり、町の者も急ぎ起き出し、王とその全軍は、イスラエルを迎え撃とうとアラバに面する戦場に進軍した。王は町の裏手に伏兵がいるとは知らなかった。 8:15 ヨシュアの率いる全イスラエルが彼らに打ち破られたかのように荒れ野の道を退却すると、 8:16 町の全軍も追撃のために呼び集められ、ヨシュアの後を追い、彼らはこうして、町からおびき出された。 8:17 イスラエルを追わずに残った者は、アイにもベテルにも一人もいなかった。しかも、イスラエルの後を追ったとき、町の門は開けたままであった。 8:18 主はヨシュアに言われた。「あなたが手にしている投げ槍をアイに向かって差し伸べなさい。わたしはアイをあなたの手に渡す。」ヨシュアが手にしていた投げ槍を町に向かって差し伸べると、 8:19 伏兵は一斉にその場所から立ち上がり、ヨシュアが手を伸ばしている間に町に攻め込んで占領し、直ちに町に火を放った。 8:20 アイの兵士が振り返って見たときには、既に町の煙は天に達しており、荒れ野に逃げた軍勢も追っ手に対して向き直ったので、彼らはどこにも逃げることができなくなってしまった。 8:21 ヨシュアの率いる全イスラエルは、伏兵が町を占領し、町から煙が立ち昇るのを見ると、向きを変えてアイの兵士に打ちかかり、 8:22 伏兵も町を出て彼らに向かったので、彼らはイスラエル軍の挟み撃ちに遭い、生き残った者も落ちのびた者も一人もいなくなるまで打ちのめされた。 8:23 アイの王は生け捕りにされ、ヨシュアのもとに引き出された。 8:24 イスラエルは、追って来たアイの全住民を野原や荒れ野で殺し、一人残らず剣にかけて倒した。全イスラエルはアイにとって返し、その町を剣にかけて撃った。 8:25 その日の敵の死者は男女合わせて一万二千人、アイの全住民であった。 8:26 ヨシュアはアイの住民をことごとく滅ぼし尽くすまで投げ槍を差し伸べた手を引っ込めなかった。 8:27 ただし、この町の家畜と分捕り品は、主がヨシュアに命じた言葉どおり、イスラエルが自分たちのために奪い取った。 8:28 ヨシュアはこうしてアイを焼き払い、とこしえの廃虚の丘として打ち捨てた。それは今日まで残っている。 8:29 ヨシュアはまた、アイの王を木にかけて夕方までさらし、太陽の沈むころ、命じてその死体を木から下ろさせ、町の門の入り口に投げ捨て、それを覆う大きな石塚を築かせた。それは今日まで残っている。
8:30 そのころ、ヨシュアはエバル山にイスラエルの神、主のための祭壇を築いた。 8:31 この祭壇は、主の僕モーセがイスラエルの人々に命じ、モーセの教えの書に記されたとおり、鉄の道具を使わない自然のままの石で造られた。彼らはその上で、主に焼き尽くす献げ物と和解の献げ物をささげた。 8:32 ヨシュアはこの祭壇の石に、モーセがイスラエルの人々のために記した教えの写しを刻んだ。 8:33 全イスラエルは、長老、役人、裁判人をはじめ、寄留者もその土地に生まれた者も、主の契約の箱を担ぐレビ人である祭司たちの前で、箱のこちら側とあちら側に、半分はゲリジム山の前に、他の半分はエバル山の前に立った。それは主の僕モーセがかつて命じたように、イスラエルの民を祝福するためであった。 8:34 その後ヨシュアは、律法の言葉すなわち祝福と呪いをことごとく、すべて律法の書に記されているとおりに読み上げた。 8:35 ヨシュアは、モーセが命じたことをひと言残さず、イスラエルの全会衆、女、子供、彼らの間で生活する寄留者の前で読み上げた。
8:1 Now the Lord said to Joshua: "Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land. 8:2 "And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it." 8:3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them away by night. 8:4 And he commanded them, saying: "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready. 8:5 "Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city; and it will come about, when they come out against us as at the first, that we shall flee before them. 8:6 "For they will come out after us till we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, 'They are fleeing before us as at the first.' Therefore we will flee before them. 8:7 "Then you shall rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand. 8:8 "And it will be, when you have taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire. According to the commandment of the Lord you shall do. See, I have commanded you." 8:9 Joshua therefore sent them out; and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people. 8:10 Then Joshua rose up early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. 8:11 And all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near; and they came before the city and camped on the north side of Ai. Now a valley lay between them and Ai. 8:12 So he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. 8:13 And when they had set the people, all the army that was on the north of the city, and its rear guard on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley. 8:14 Now it happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at an appointed place before the plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. 8:15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. 8:16 So all the people who were in Ai were called together to pursue them. And they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city. 8:17 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. So they left the city open and pursued Israel. 8:18 Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand." And Joshua stretched out the spear that was in his hand toward the city. 8:19 So those in ambush arose quickly out of their place; they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and they entered the city and took it, and hurried to set the city on fire. 8:20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven. So they had no power to flee this way or that way, and the people who had fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers. 8:21 Now when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai. 8:22 Then the others came out of the city against them; so they were caught in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. And they struck them down, so that they let none of them remain or escape. 8:23 But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. 8:24 And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when they all had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword. 8:25 So it was that all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand-all the people of Ai. 8:26 For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 8:27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of the Lord which He had commanded Joshua. 8:28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation to this day. 8:29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day. 8:30 Now Joshua built an altar to the Lord God of Israel in Mount Ebal, 8:31 as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: "an altar of whole stones over which no man has wielded an iron tool." And they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings. 8:32 And there, in the presence of the children of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. 8:33 Then all Israel, with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the stranger as well as he who was born among them. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. 8:34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. 8:35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the strangers who were living among them.
88:1 【歌。賛歌。コラの子の詩。指揮者によって。マハラトに合わせて。レアノト。マスキール。エズラ人ヘマンの詩。】 88:2 主よ、わたしを救ってくださる神よ／昼は、助けを求めて叫び／夜も、御前におります。 88:3 わたしの祈りが御もとに届きますように。わたしの声に耳を傾けてください。 88:4 わたしの魂は苦難を味わい尽くし／命は陰府にのぞんでいます。 88:5 穴に下る者のうちに数えられ／力を失った者とされ 88:6 汚れた者と見なされ／死人のうちに放たれて／墓に横たわる者となりました。あなたはこのような者に心を留められません。彼らは御手から切り離されています。 88:7 あなたは地の底の穴にわたしを置かれます／影に閉ざされた所、暗闇の地に。 88:8 あなたの憤りがわたしを押さえつけ／あなたの起こす波がわたしを苦しめます。〔セラ 88:9 あなたはわたしから／親しい者を遠ざけられました。彼らにとってわたしは忌むべき者となりました。わたしは閉じ込められて、出られません。 88:10 苦悩に目は衰え／来る日も来る日も、主よ、あなたを呼び／あなたに向かって手を広げています。 88:11 あなたが死者に対して驚くべき御業をなさったり／死霊が起き上がって／あなたに／感謝したりすることがあるでしょうか。〔セラ 88:12 墓の中であなたの慈しみが／滅びの国であなたのまことが／語られたりするでしょうか。 88:13 闇の中で驚くべき御業が／忘却の地で恵みの御業が／告げ知らされたりするでしょうか。 88:14 主よ、わたしはあなたに叫びます。朝ごとに祈りは御前に向かいます。 88:15 主よ、なぜわたしの魂を突き放し／なぜ御顔をわたしに隠しておられるのですか。 88:16 わたしは若い時から苦しんで来ました。今は、死を待ちます。あなたの怒りを身に負い、絶えようとしています。 88:17 あなたの憤りがわたしを圧倒し／あなたを恐れてわたしは滅びます。 88:18 それは大水のように／絶え間なくわたしの周りに渦巻き／いっせいに襲いかかります。 88:19 愛する者も友も／あなたはわたしから遠ざけてしまわれました。今、わたしに親しいのは暗闇だけです。
88:1 O Lord, God of my salvation,I have cried out day and night before You. 88:2 Let my prayer come before You;Incline Your ear to my cry. 88:3 For my soul is full of troubles,And my life draws near to the grave. 88:4 I am counted with those who go down to the pit;I am like a man who has no strength, 88:5 Adrift among the dead,Like the slain who lie in the grave,Whom You remember no more,And who are cut off from Your hand. 88:6 You have laid me in the lowest pit,In darkness, in the depths. 88:7 Your wrath lies heavy upon me,And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah 88:8 You have put away my acquaintances far from me;You have made me an abomination to them;I am shut up, and I cannot get out; 88:9 My eye wastes away because of affliction.Lord, I have called daily upon You;I have stretched out my hands to You. 88:10 Will You work wonders for the dead?Shall the dead arise and praise You? Selah 88:11 Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave?Or Your faithfulness in the place of destruction? 88:12 Shall Your wonders be known in the dark?And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 88:13 But to You I have cried out, O Lord,And in the morning my prayer comes before You. 88:14 Lord, why do You cast off my soul?Why do You hide Your face from me? 88:15 I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth;I suffer Your terrors;I am distraught. 88:16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me;Your terrors have cut me off. 88:17 They came around me all day long like water;They engulfed me altogether. 88:18 Loved one and friend You have put far from me,And my acquaintances into darkness.