Ezra 5
1 Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel, to them.
爰に預言者ハガイおよびイドの子ゼカリヤの二人の預言者ユダとヱルサレムに居るユダヤ人に向ひてイスラエルの神の名をもて預言する所ありければ
2 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, rose up and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem, and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.
シヤルテルの子ゼルバベルおよびヨザダクの子ヱシュア起あがりてヱルサレムなる神の室を建ることを始む 神の預言者等これと共に在て之を助く
3 At the same time Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, came to them, and said thus to them, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
その時に河外の總督タテナイといふ者セタルボズナイおよびその同僚とともにその所に來り誰が汝らに此室を建て此石垣を築きあぐることを命ぜしやと斯言ひ
4 Then we told them after this manner, namely, what the names of the men were who were making this building.
また此建物を建る人々の名は何といふやと斯これに問り
5 But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease till the matter should come to Darius, and then answer should be returned by letter concerning it.
然るにユダヤ人の長老等の上にはその神の目そそぎゐたれば彼等これを止むること能はずして遂にその事をダリヨスに奏してその返答の來るを待り
6 The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king;
河外ふの總督タテナイおよびセタルボズナイとその同僚なる河外ふのアパルサカイ人がダリヨス王に上まつりし書の稿は左のごとし
7 they sent a letter to him, in which was written thus: To Darius the king, all peace.
即ち其上まつりし書の中に書しるしたる所は是のごとし 云く願くはダリヨス王に大なる平安あれ
8 Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judah to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls. And this work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.
王知りたまへ我儕ユダヤ州に往てかの大神の室に至り視しに巨石をもて之を建て材木を組て壁を作り居り其工事おほいに捗りてその手を下すところ成ざる無し
9 Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus: Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
是に於て我儕その長老等に問てこれに斯いへり 誰が汝らに此室を建てこの石垣を築きあぐることを命ぜしやと
10 Also, we asked them their names, to certify to thee, that we might write the names of the men who were at the head of them.
我儕またその首長たる人々の名を書しるして汝に奏聞せんがためにその名を問り
11 And thus they returned us an answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth. And are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
時に彼等かく我らに答へて言り 我儕は天地の神の僕にして年久しき昔に建おかれし殿を再び建るなり 是は素イスラエルの大なる王 某の建築きたる者なしりが
12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath. He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
我らの父等天の神の震怒を惹起せしに縁てつひに之をカルデヤ人バビロンの王ネブカデネザルの手に付したまひければ彼この殿を毀ち民をバビロンに擄へゆけり
13 But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.
然るにバビロンの王クロスの元年にクロス王神のこの室を建べしとの詔言を下したまへり
14 And also the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus the king took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar whom he had made governor.
然のみならず ヱルサレムの殿よりネブカデネザルが取いだしてバビロンの殿に携へいれし神の室の金銀の器皿もクロス王これをバビロンの殿より取いだし其立たる總督セシバザルと名くる者に之を付し
15 And he said to him, Take these vessels. Go put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its place.
而して彼に言けらく是等の器皿を取り往て之をヱルサレムの殿に携へいれ神の室をその本の處に建よと
16 Then the same Sheshbazzar came, and laid the foundations of the house of God which is in Jerusalem. And since that time even until now it has been in building, and yet it is not completed.
是において其セシバザル來りてヱルサレムなる神の室の石礎を置たりき 其時よりして今に至るまで之を建つつありしが猶いまだ竣らざるなりと
17 Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure-house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made from Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.
然ば今王もし善となされなば請ふ御膝下バビロンにある所の王の寳蔵を査べたまひて神のこの室を建べしとの詔言のクロス王より出しや否を稽へ而して王此事につきて御旨を我らに諭したまえ
