2 Chronicles 6
1 Then Solomon said: “The Lord has promised that he would dwell in a cloud.
そこでソロモンは言った、「主はみずから濃き雲の中に住まおうと言われた。
2 But I have built a house to his name, so that he may dwell there forever.”
しかしわたしはあなたのために高き家、とこしえのみすまいを建てた」。
3 And the king turned his face, and he blessed the entire multitude of Israel, (for the whole crowd was standing and attentive) and he said:
そして王は顔をふり向けてイスラエルの全会衆を祝福した。その時イスラエルの全会衆は立っていた。
4 “Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who has completed the work that he spoke to David my father, saying:
彼は言った、「イスラエルの神、主はほむべきかな。主は口をもってわが父ダビデに約束されたことを、その手をもってなし遂げられた。すなわち主は言われた、
5 ‘From the day when I led my people away from the land of Egypt, I did not choose a city from all the tribes of Israel, so that a house would be built in it to my name. And I did not choose any other man, so that he would be the ruler of my people Israel.
『わが民をエジプトの地から導き出した日から、わたしはわが名を置くべき家を建てるために、イスラエルのもろもろの部族のうちから、どの町をも選んだことがなく、また他のだれをもわが民イスラエルの君として選んだことがない。
6 But I chose Jerusalem, so that my name would be in it. And I chose David, so that I might appoint him over my people Israel.’
わが名を置くために、ただエルサレムだけを選び、またわが民イスラエルを治めさせるために、ただダビデだけを選んだ』。
7 And though David, my father, had decided that he would build a house to the name of the Lord God of Israel,
イスラエルの神、主の名のために家を建てることは、父ダビデの心にあった。
8 the Lord said to him: ‘In so far as it was your will that you build a house to my name, certainly you have done well in having such a will.
しかし主は父ダビデに言われた、『わたしの名のために家を建てることはあなたの心にあった。あなたの心にこの事のあったのは結構である。
9 But you shall not build the house. Truly, your son, who will go forth from your loins, shall build a house to my name.’
しかしあなたはその家を建ててはならない。あなたの腰から出るあなたの子がわたしの名のために家を建てるであろう』。
10 Therefore, the Lord has accomplished his word, which he had spoken. And I have risen up in place of my father David, and I sit upon the throne of Israel, just as the Lord spoke. And I have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
そして主はそう言われた言葉を行われた。すなわちわたしは父ダビデに代って立ち、主が言われたように、イスラエルの位に座し、イスラエルの神、主の名のために家を建てた。
11 And I have placed in it the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he formed with the sons of Israel.”
わたしはまた、主がイスラエルの人々と結ばれた主の契約を入れた箱をそこに納めた」。
12 Then he stood before the altar of the Lord, facing the entire multitude of Israel, and he extended his hands.
ソロモンはイスラエルの全会衆の前、主の祭壇の前に立って、手を伸べた。
13 For indeed, Solomon had made a bronze base, and he had positioned it in the midst of the hall; it held five cubits in length, and five cubits in width, and three cubits in height. And he stood upon it. And next, kneeling down while facing the entire multitude of Israel, and lifting up his palms towards heaven,
ソロモンはさきに長さ五キュビト、幅五キュビト、高さ三キュビトの青銅の台を造って、庭のまん中にすえて置いたので、彼はその上に立ち、イスラエルの全会衆の前でひざをかがめ、その手を天に伸べて、
14 he said: “O Lord God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on earth. You preserve covenant and mercy with your servants, who walk before you with all their hearts.
言った、「イスラエルの神、主よ、天にも地にも、あなたのような神はありません。あなたは契約を守られ、心をつくしてあなたの前に歩むあなたのしもべらに、いつくしみを施し、
15 You fulfilled for your servant David, my father, whatsoever you had said to him. And you carried out the deed that you promised with your mouth, just as the present time proves.
あなたのしもべ、わたしの父ダビデに約束されたことを守られました。あなたが口をもって約束されたことを、手をもってなし遂げられたことは、今日見るとおりであります。
16 Now then, O Lord God of Israel, fulfill for your servant David, my father, whatsoever you said to him, saying: ‘There shall not fail to be a man from you before me, who will sit upon the throne of Israel, yet only if your sons will guard their ways, and will walk in my law, just as you also have walked before me.’
それゆえ、イスラエルの神、主よ、あなたのしもべ、わたしの父ダビデに、あなたが約束して、『おまえがわたしの前に歩んだように、おまえの子孫がその道を慎んで、わたしのおきてに歩むならば、おまえにはイスラエルの位に座する人がわたしの前に欠けることはない』と言われたことを、ダビデのためにお守りください。
17 And now, O Lord God of Israel, let your word be confirmed that you spoke to your servant David.
それゆえ、イスラエルの神、主よ、どうぞ、あなたのしもべダビデに言われた言葉を確認してください。
18 How then is it to be believed that God would dwell with men upon the earth? If heaven and the heavens of the heavens do not contain you, how much less this house that I have built?
しかし神は、はたして人と共に地上に住まわれるでしょうか。見よ、天も、いと高き天もあなたをいれることはできません。わたしの建てたこの家などなおさらです。
19 But it has been done for this only, so that you may look with favor upon the prayer of your servant, and on his supplication, O Lord my God, and so that you may hear the prayers which your servant pours out before you,
しかしわが神、主よ、しもべの祈と願いを顧みて、しもべがあなたの前にささげる叫びと祈をお聞きください。
20 and so that you may open your eyes over this house, day and night, over the place where you promised that your name would be invoked,
どうぞ、あなたの目を昼も夜もこの家に、すなわち、あなたの名をそこに置くと言われた所に向かってお開きください。どうぞ、しもべがこの所に向かってささげる祈をお聞きください。
21 and so that you may heed the prayer which your servant is praying within it, and so that you may heed the prayers of your servant and of your people Israel. Whoever will pray in this place, listen from your habitation, that is, from heaven, and forgive.
どうぞ、しもべと、あなたの民イスラエルがこの所に向かって祈る時に、その願いをお聞きください。あなたのすみかである天から聞き、聞いておゆるしください。
22 If anyone will have sinned against his neighbor, and he arrives to swear against him, and to bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house,
もし人がその隣り人に対して罪を犯し、誓いをすることを求められるとき、来てこの宮で、あなたの祭壇の前に誓うならば、
23 you will hear him from heaven, and you will execute justice for your servants, so that you return, to the iniquitous man, his own way upon his own head, and so that you vindicate the just man, repaying him according to his own justice.
あなたは天から聞いて、行い、あなたのしもべらをさばき、悪人に報いをなして、その行いの報いをそのこうべに帰し、義人を義として、その義にしたがってその人に報いてください。
24 If your people Israel will have been overwhelmed by their enemies, (for they will sin against you) and having been converted will do penance, and if they will have beseeched your name, and will have prayed in this place,
もしあなたの民イスラエルが、あなたに対して罪を犯したために、敵の前に敗れた時、あなたに立ち返って、あなたの名をあがめ、この宮であなたの前に祈り願うならば、
25 you will heed them from heaven, and you will forgive the sin of your people Israel, and you will lead them back into the land that you gave to them and to their fathers.
あなたは天から聞き、あなたの民イスラエルの罪をゆるして、あなたが彼らとその先祖に与えられた地に彼らを帰らせてください。
26 If the heavens have been closed, so that rain does not fall, because of the sin of the people, and if they will petition you in this place, and confess to your name, and be converted from their sins when you will afflict them,
もし彼らがあなたに罪を犯したために、天が閉ざされて、雨がなく、あなたが彼らを苦しめられるとき、彼らがこの所に向かって祈り、あなたの名をあがめ、その罪を離れるならば、
27 heed them from heaven, O Lord, and forgive the sins of your servants and of your people Israel, and teach them the good way, by which they may advance, and give rain to the land that you gave to your people as a possession.
あなたは天にあって聞き、あなたのしもべ、あなたの民イスラエルの罪をゆるして、彼らに歩むべき良い道を教え、あなたの民に嗣業として賜わった地に雨を降らせてください。
28 If a famine will have risen up in the land, or pestilence, or fungus, or mildew, or locusts, or beetles, or if enemies will have laid waste to the countryside and will have besieged the gates of the cities, or whatever scourge or infirmity will have pressed upon them,
もし国にききんがあるか、もしくは疫病、立ち枯れ、腐り穂、いなご、青虫があるか、または敵のために町の門の中に攻め囲まれることがあるか、どんな災害、どんな病気があっても、
29 if anyone from your people Israel, knowing his own scourge and infirmity, will have made supplication and will have extended his hands in this house,
もし、ひとりか、あるいはあなたの民イスラエルが皆おのおのその心の悩みを知って、この宮に向かい、手を伸べるならば、どんな祈、どんな願いでも、
30 you will heed him from heaven, indeed from your sublime habitation, and you will forgive, and you will repay each one according to his ways, which you know him to hold in his heart. For you alone know the hearts of the sons of men.
あなたはそのすみかである天から聞いてゆるし、おのおのの人に、その心を知っておられるゆえ、そのすべての道にしたがって報いてください。ただあなただけがすべての人の心を知っておられるからです。
31 So may they fear you, and so may they walk in your ways, during all the days that they live upon the face of the land, which you gave to our fathers.
あなたがわれわれの先祖たちに賜わった地に、彼らの生きながらえる日の間、常にあなたを恐れさせ、あなたの道に歩ませてください。
32 Also, if the outsider, who is not from your people Israel, will have arrived from a far away land, because of your great name, and because of your robust hand and your outstretched arm, and if he will adore in this place,
またあなたの民イスラエルの者でなく、他国人で、あなたの大いなる名と、強い手と、伸べた腕のために遠い国から来て、この宮に向かって祈るならば、
33 you will heed him from heaven, your most firm habitation, and you will accomplish all the things about which this sojourner will have called out to you, so that all the people of the earth may know your name, and may fear you, just as your people Israel do, and so that they may know that your name is invoked over this house, which I have built.
あなたは、あなたのすみかである天から聞き、すべて他国人があなたに呼び求めるようにしてください。そうすれば地のすべての民はあなたの民イスラエルのように、あなたの名を知り、あなたを恐れ、またわたしが建てたこの宮が、あなたの名によって呼ばれることを知るにいたるでしょう。
34 If, having gone out to war against their adversaries along the way that you will send them, your people adore you facing in the direction of this city, which you have chosen, and of this house, which I have built to your name,
あなたの民が敵と戦うために、あなたがつかわされる道によって出るとき、もし彼らがあなたの選ばれたこの町と、わたしがあなたの名のために建てたこの宮に向かってあなたに祈るならば、
35 you will heed their prayers from heaven, and their supplications, and you will vindicate them.
あなたは天から彼らの祈と願いとを聞いて彼らをお助けください。
36 But if they will have sinned against you (for there is no man who does not sin) and you will have become angry against them, and if you will have delivered them to their enemies, and so they lead them away as captives to a far away land, or even to one that is near,
彼らがあなたに対して罪を犯すことがあって、罪を犯さない人はないゆえ、あなたが彼らを怒って、敵にわたし、敵が彼らを捕虜として遠い地あるいは近い地に引いて行くとき、
37 and if, having been converted in their heart in the land to which they had been led as captives, they will do penance, and beseech you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have acted unjustly,’
もし、彼らが捕われて行った地で、みずから省みて悔い、その捕われの地であなたに願い、『われわれは罪を犯し、よこしまな事をし、悪を行いました』と言い、
38 and if they will have returned to you, with their whole heart and with their whole soul, in the land of their captivity to which they were led away, and if they will adore you in the direction of their own land, which you gave to their fathers, and of the city, which you have chosen, and of the house, which I have built to your name,
その捕われの地で心をつくし、精神をつくしてあなたに立ち返り、あなたが彼らの先祖に与えられた地、あなたが選ばれた町、わたしがあなたの名のために建てたこの宮に向かって祈るならば、
39 from heaven, that is, from your firm habitation, you will heed their prayers, and you will accomplish judgment, and you will forgive your people, even though they are sinners.
あなたのすみかである天から、彼らの祈と願いとを聞いて彼らを助け、あなたに向かって罪を犯したあなたの民をおゆるしください。
40 For you are my God. Let your eyes be open, I beg you, and let your ears be attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
わが神よ、どうぞ、この所でささげる祈にあなたの目を開き、あなたの耳を傾けてください。
41 Now therefore, rise up, O Lord God, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your holy ones rejoice in what is good.
主なる神よ、今あなたと、あなたの力の箱が立って、あなたの安息所におはいりください。主なる神よ、どうぞあなたの祭司たちに救の衣を着せ、あなたの聖徒たちに恵みを喜ばせてください。
42 O Lord God, may you not turn away from the face of your Christ. Remember the mercies of your servant, David.”
主なる神よ、どうぞあなたの油そそがれた者の顔を退けないでください。あなたのしもべダビデに示されたいつくしみを覚えて下さい」。
