The City of Bloodshed

σὺ υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, εἰ κρινεῖς τὴν πόλιν τῶν αἱμάτων;

災いだ、流血の都
熱せられた瓦礫が泡を吹いて気絶し
覆われず露わな、遺体の血が裸となった街をひた走る
六芒星の刻まれた砲弾は「シャローム」と言い
無慈悲に主の息の通い道をこしらえる

ΚΑΤΕΣΘΟΥΣΑ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΥΣ ΕΙ
(You devour people)
かつて誰かがそう言った
シオン、流血の都よ、どうだ人間は旨いか？
何一つ変わらないのだな、おまえは

τοῦτο ἀνθρώπους οὐκέτι φάγεσαι
(you will no longer devour people)
と言われてから何千年経つのだ？
約束はどこに消えた？
心の板すら、反故になるのか？
乳はどこだ？——蜜は？
肥沃な三日月は血に嗤い、柩の列が大河をつくる
お前は鍋か——人間を調理する？

人々はさながら金滓、
血抜きもされない腿と肩肉の沸騰した炉に身投げ、
骨ごと憎悪に掻き回される
「I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died」

真実が錠剤に閉じ込められたこのご時世
おまえのざまを見ていると、おれは躓き転びそうになる
心が融解してさ、まさしく預言の通りにな
The only thing that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now
O, πόλῐ τῶν αἱμάτων
おれは呆れて辱しめの声も出ない
こんなに悲惨では笑い種にもできやしない
黙して、うなだれるばかりだ——スタンチクのように

おれは福音派だった——今でもそうだと思う
しかしパレスチナの、汚辱の凝った青銅が真っ赤に焼け上がるさまをみて、
どうして、どうして、腸を揺さぶられずにいられるだろう
悱憤に蓋をしても、沸騰した激情は抑えておけない
「you take interest and make a profit from the poor」
とは国家イスラエルについての文言ではないか！

殺戮の火器は二倍から三倍に
すべての門に問答無用の爆撃
万軍の主の仰せの儘に
Bomb flash、Flare flash、Muzzle Flash
Strobo flash、Flesh flash
荒廃、荒廃、荒廃に次ぐ荒廃
だが、ぶ厚く蓄積した錆びが、
たかが此度の空爆や掃討作戦の火ごときで拭い去れるだろうか

ああ、イェルサレム、イェルサレム
預言者ばかりでなく、無辜の民の命まで歃る地よ
至今血食而不血食
——こんな修辞を並べて、おれは楽しんでいるのか？
In the Flesh?
So ya
Thought ya
Might like to go to the show.
To feel the warm thrill of confusion
That space cadet glow.
主は「だれの死も喜ばない」と宣う
血まみれの、オホリバよ、慥かに主はおまえに「生きよ」と宣うたのだ
Tell me is something eluding you, sunshine?
Is this not what you expected to see?

計上なしの、命の通貨の濫費
SNSは再利用不可能な思考の肥溜め
だからお前が隠し持っている命の書の裏帳簿を見せてみろ
土地よ、カナンよ、雅称は不要だ、
お追従のためのめかしはやめて、みずから語れ
血と膏に埋もれ、失われて久しいお前自身の言葉を
娼婦と、鍋と、災禍と、蔑まれてきた土地よ、カナンよ
お前が語らなければ、剣は二度と鞘には戻らない

モアブもない、エドムもない、ペリシテもいない、
シドンもティルスも、みんな歴史の藻屑となった
ただ、おまえだけが、火中の栗のようなおまえだけが、
オホリバよ、いまも他人の血を被りながら、生き延びているのだ
まっぴらではないか！——こんな精虫の飛ばし合いなど！
あおりを食らうのはいつも寡婦とみなしごたちだ
How could you be so heartless?
Oh, how could you be so heartless?
「You have gone far enough, princes of Israel!
Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right.」
これが主の仰せ。

イスラエルの嗣業はただ一つ——主のみ。
イスラエルの財産はただ一つ——主のみ。

英語版
Woe to the city of gore,
The scorching rubble soars and faints before
Blood of the exposed dead races through naked streets galore.
Bullets with the Star of David shout “Shalom,”
Creating paths for the Lord's breath, so cruel, so strong.

ΚΑΤΕΣΘΟΥΣΑ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΥΣ ΕΙ
(You devour people)
Someone once claimed,
Zion, city of blood, is the taste of man truly good?
Even after millennia, you remain the same,

τοῦτο ἀνθρώπους οὐκέτι φάγεσαι
(you will no longer devour people)
What happened to the vow you made?
Even the heart's boards, are they to fade?
Where is the land flowing with milk and honey's glow?
Crescent moon laughs, watching sorrow grow.
Caskets form rivers, the sight hard to name.
Are you a pot, cooking humanity's game?

People are but gold dross,
Thrown into a boiling furnace, a heavy loss,
Stirred by hate, their bones come across,
“I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died.”

In an era where truths are locked inside,
I almost stumble seeing your stride.
Heart melting away, just as prophecy implied,
The only thing that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now,

O, πόλῐ τῶν αἱμάτων,
Speechless, I can't even sigh,
The misery's too deep, can't even mock or decry,
Silently, I hang my head, tears dry,
Once evangelical, still am, I imply,
But seeing Palestine's burning sky,
How can I not question, not wonder why?
No matter how you try to deny,
“you take interest and make a profit from the poor”
Isn't that Israel's core?

Weapons multiply, from two to four,
Every door meets a bomb, no lore,
By the Almighty's command, evermore,
Bomb flash, Flare flash, Muzzle Flash,
Strobe flash, Flesh flash,
Ruin upon ruin, in a brash clash,
But can this raid wipe out the age-old ash?

Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
Land that drinks not just prophets, but innocent men,
Till now, blood-eating without condemn,
—Do I enjoy this rhetoric gem?
In the Flesh?
So ya,
Thought ya,
Might like to go to the show.

To feel the warm thrill of confusion,
That space cadet glow.
The Lord declares, "In death, there's no delight for me."
Bloodied Oholibah, wasn't freedom His decree?
Tell me is something eluding you, sunshine?
Is this not what you expected to see?

Life squandered, no account, no line,
SNS, a cesspool, where thoughts aren't to be,
Show the hidden ledger, the book of souls that intertwine,
Land, Canaan, no flattery for thee,
Speak for yourself; let your words, not mine, intertwine,
Words buried in blood and decree,
Whore, pot, disaster, land of the blind sign,
If you stay silent, the sword won't return to its sheath.

No Moab, no Edom, Philistine's decline,
Sidon, Tyre, all history's debris,
Only you, like a chestnut in fire, still alive,
Oholibah, living in others' decree,
I reject this game, this mock of spermish skirmish,
The widows and orphans, they always pay the fee,
How could you be so heartless?
Oh, how could you be so heartless?

“You have gone far enough, princes of Israel!
Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right.”
This is the Almighty's counsel.
Israel's only inheritance is the Lord, so bright,
Israel's only property is the Lord, His light.