Nehemiah 6
1 Now it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gesam the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and [that] there was no opening left therein; ([but] hitherto I had not set up the doors on the gates; )
サンバラテ、トビヤおよびアラビヤ人ガシムならびにその餘の我らの敵我が石垣を築き終りて一の破壊も遺らずと聞り（然どその時は未だ門に扉を設けざりしなり）
2 that Sanaballat and Gesam sent to me, saying, Come and let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono. But they [were] plotting to do me mischief.
是においてサンバラテとガシム我に言つかはしけるは來れ我らオノの平野なる某の村にて相會せんとその實は我を害せんと思ひしなり
3 So I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, and I shall not be able to come down, lest the work should cease: as soon as I shall have finished it, I will come down to you.
我すなはち使者を彼らに遣はして言らく我は大なる工事をなし居れば下りゆくことを得ずなんぞ工事を離れ汝らの所に下りゆきてその間工事を休ますべけんやと
4 And they sent to me [again] to this effect; and I sent them [word] accordingly.
彼ら四次まで是のごとく我に言遣はしけるが我は何時もかくのごとく之に答へたり
5 Then Sanaballat sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand.
是においてサンバラテまた五次目にその僕を前のごとく我に遣はせり其手には封ぜざる書を携さふ
6 And in it was written, It has been reported amongst the Gentiles that you and the Jews are planning to revolt: therefore you are building the wall, and you will be a king to them.
その文に云く國々にて言博ふガシムもまた然いふ汝はユダヤ人とともに叛かんとして之がために石垣を築けり而して汝はその王とならんとすとその言ところ是のごとし
7 And moreover you has appointed prophets to yourself, that you might dwell in Jerusalem as a king over Juda: and now these words will be reported to the king. Now then, come, let us take counsel together.
また汝は預言者を設けて汝の事をヱルサレムに宣しめユダに王ありと言しむといひ傳ふ恐くはその事この言のごとく王に聞えん然ば汝いま來れ我ら共に相議らんと
8 And I sent to him, saying, It has not happened according to these words, [even] as you say, for you frame them falsely out of your heart.
我すなはち彼に言つかはしけるは汝が言るごとき事を爲し事なし惟なんぢ之を己の心より作りいだせるなりと
9 For all were trying to alarm us, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from this work, and it shall not be done. Now therefore I have strengthened my hands.
彼らは皆われらを懼れしめんとせり彼ら謂らく斯なさば彼ら手弱りて工事を息べければ工事成ざるべしと今ねがはくは我手を強くしたまへ
10 And I came into the house of Semei the son of Dalaia the Son of Metabeel, and he was shut up; and he said, Let us assemble together in the house of God, in the midst of it, and let us shut the doors of it; for they are coming by night to kill you.
かくて後我メヘタベルの子デラヤの子シマヤの家に往しに彼閉こもり居て言らく我ら神の室に到りて神殿の内に相會し神殿の戸を閉おかん彼ら汝を殺さんとて來るべければなり必ず夜のうちに汝を殺さんとて來るべしと
11 And I said, Who is the man that shall enter into the house, that he may live?
我言けるは我ごとき人いかで逃べけんや我ごとき身にして誰か神殿に入て生命を全うすることを爲んや我は入じと
12 And I observed, and, behold, God had not sent him, for the prophecy was a fable [devised] against me:
我暁れるに神かれを遣はしたまひしに非ず彼が我にむかひて此預言を説しはトビヤとサンバラテ彼に賄賂したればなり
13 and Tobias and Sanaballat had hired against me a multitude, that I might be frightened, and do this, and sin, and become to them an ill name, that they might reproach me.
彼に賄賂せしは此事のためなり即ち我をして懼れて然なして罪を犯さしめ惡き名を我に負する種を得て我を辱しめんとてなりき
14 Remember, O God, Tobias and Sanaballat, according to these their deeds, and the prophetess Noadia, and the rest of the prophets who tried to alarm me.
わが神よトビヤ、サンバラテおよび女預言者ノアデヤならびにその他の預言者など凡て我を懼れしめんとする者等を憶えてその行爲に報をなしたまへ
15 So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the [month] Elul, in fifty-two days.
石垣は五十二日を歴てエルルの月の二十五日に成就せり
16 And it came to pass, when all our enemies heard [of it], that all the nations round about us feared, and great alarm fell upon them, and they knew that it was of our God that this work should be finished.
我らの敵皆これを聞ければ我らの周圍の異邦人は凡て怖れ大に面目をうしなへり其は彼等この工事は我らの神の爲たまひし者なりと暁りたればなり
17 And in those days letters came to Tobias from many nobles of Juda, and those of Tobias came to them.
其頃ユダの貴き人々しばしば書をトビヤにおくれりトビヤの書もまた彼らに來れり
18 For many in Juda were bound to him by oath, because he was son-in-law of Sechenias the son of Herae; and Jonan his son had taken the daughter of Mesulam the son of Barachia to wife.
トビヤはアラの子シカニヤの婿なるをもてユダの中に彼と盟を結べる者多かりしが故なりトビヤの子ヨハナンも亦ベレキヤの子メシユラムの女子を妻に娶りたり
19 And they reported his words to me, and carried out my words to him: and Tobias sent letters to terrify me.
彼らはトビヤの善行を我前に語りまた我言を彼に通ぜりトビヤは常に書をおくりて我を懼れしめんとせり
