< Ezra 3 >

1 And now the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities: and the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
イスラエルの子孫かくその邑々に住居しが七月に至りて民一人のごとくにヱルサレムに集まれり
2 And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, and his brethren the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they built the altar of the God of Israel that they might offer holocausts upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the mall of God.
是に於てヨザダクの子ヱシユアとその兄弟なる祭司等およびシヤルテルの子ゼルバベルとその兄弟等立おこりてイスラエルの神の壇を築けり 是神の人モーセの律法に記されたる所に循ひてその上に燔祭を獻げんとてなりき
3 And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while the people of the lands round about put them in fear, and they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord morning and evening.
彼等は壇をその本の處に設けたり 是國々の民を懼れしが故なり 而してその上にて燔祭をヱホバに獻げ朝夕にこれを獻ぐ
4 And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the holocaust every day orderly according to the commandment, the duty of the day in its day.
またその録されたる所に循ひて結茅節を行ひ毎日の分を按へて例に照し數のごとくに日々の燔祭を獻げたり
5 And afterwards the continual holocaust, both on the new moons, and on all the solemnities of the Lord, that were consecrated, and on all in which a free-will offering was made to the Lord.
是より後は常の燔祭および月朔とヱホバの一切のきよき節會とに用ゐる供物ならびに人の誠意よりヱホバにたてまつる供物を獻ぐることをす
6 From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer holocausts to the Lord: but the temple of God was not yet founded.
即ち七月の一日よりして燔祭をヱホバに獻ぐることを始めけるがヱホバの殿の基礎は未だ置ざりき
7 And they gave money to hewers of stones and to masons: and meat and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which Cyrus king of the Persians had given them.
是において石工と木工に金を交付しまたシドンとツロの者に食物飮物および油を與へてペルシヤの王クロスの允准にしたがひてレバノンよりヨツパの海に香柏を運ばしめたり
8 And in the second year of their coming to the temple of God in Jerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests, and the Levites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began, and they appointed Levites from twenty years old and upward, to hasten forward the work of the Lord.
斯てヱルサレムより神の室に歸りたる次の年の二月にシヤルテルの子ゼルバベル、ヨザダクの子ヱシユアおよびその兄弟たる他の祭司レビ人など凡て俘囚をゆるされてヱルサレムに歸りし者等を始め二十歳以上のレビ人を立てヱホバの室の工事を監督せしむ
9 Then Josue and his sons and his brethren, Cedmihel, and his sons, and the children of Juda, as one man, stood to hasten them that did the work in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and their brethren the Levites.
是に於てユダの子等なるヱシユアとその子等および兄弟カデミエルとその子等齊しく立て神の家の工人を監督せり ヘナダデの子等およびその子等と兄弟等のレビ人も然り
10 And when the masons laid the foundations of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their ornaments with trumpets: and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise God by the hands of David king of Israel.
かくて建築者ヱホバの殿の基礎を置る時祭司等禮服を衣て喇叭を執りアサフの子孫たるレビ人鐃鈸を執りイスラエルの王ダビデの例に循ひてヱホバを讃美す
11 And they sung together hymns, and praise to the Lord: because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord, because the foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid.
彼等班列にしたがひて諸共に歌を謠ひてヱホバを讃めかつ頌へヱホバは恩ふかく其矜恤は永遠にたゆることなければなりと言り そのヱホバを讃美する時に民みな大聲をあげて呼はれり ヱホバの室の基礎を据ればなり
12 But many of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the fathers and the ancients that had seen the former temple; when they had the foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept with a loud voice: and many shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.
されど祭司レビ人宗家の長等の中に以前の室を見たりし老人ありけるが今この室の基礎をその目の前に置るを見て多く聲を放ちて泣り また喜悦のために聲をあげて呼はる者も多かりき
13 So that one could not distinguish the voice of the shout of joy, from the noise of the weeping of the people: for one with another the people shouted with a loud shout, and the voice was heard afar off.
是をもて人衆民の歡こびて呼はる聲と民の泣く聲とを聞わくることを得ざりき そは民大聲に呼はり叫びければその聲遠くまで聞えわたりたればなり

< Ezra 3 >