Ezra 3
1 When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
こうしてイスラエルの人々はその町々に住んでいたが、七月になって、民はひとりのようにエルサレムに集まった。
2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his relatives, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
そこでヨザダクの子エシュアとその仲間の祭司たち、およびシャルテルの子ゼルバベルとその兄弟たちは立って、イスラエルの神の祭壇を築いた。これは神の人モーセの律法にしるされたところに従って、その上に燔祭をささげるためであった。
3 In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
彼らは国々の民を恐れていたので、祭壇をもとの所に設けた。そしてその上で燔祭を主にささげ、朝夕それをささげた。
4 They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
また、しるされたところに従って仮庵の祭を行い、おきてに従って、毎日ささぐべき数のとおりに、日々の燔祭をささげた。
5 and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a free will offering to the LORD.
そしてその後は常燔祭、新月と主のすべて定められた祭とにささげる供え物および各自が主にささげる真心よりの供え物をささげた。
6 From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD; but the foundation of the LORD’s temple was not yet laid.
すなわち七月一日から燔祭を主にささげることを始めたが、主の宮の基礎はまだすえられてなかった。
7 They also gave money to the masons and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.
そこで石工と木工に金を渡し、またシドンとツロの人々に食い物、飲み物および油を与えて、ペルシャ王クロスから得た許可に従って、レバノンからヨッパの海に香柏を運ばせた。
8 Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the LORD’s house.
さてエルサレムの神の宮に帰った次の年の二月に、シャルテルの子ゼルバベルとヨザダクの子エシュアはその兄弟である他の祭司、レビびとおよび捕囚からエルサレムに帰って来たすべての人々と共に工事を始め、二十歳以上のレビびとを立てて、主の宮の工事を監督させた。
9 Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together to have the oversight of the workmen in God’s house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.
そこでユダの子孫であるエシュアとその子らおよびその兄弟、カデミエルとその子らは共に立って、神の宮で工事をなす者を監督した。ヘナダデの子らおよびレビびとの子らと、その兄弟たちもまた一緒であった。
10 When the builders laid the foundation of the LORD’s temple, they set the priests in their vestments with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel.
こうして建築者が主の宮の基礎をすえた時、祭司たちは礼服をつけてラッパをとり、アサフの子らであるレビびとはシンバルをとり、イスラエルの王ダビデの指令に従って主をさんびした。
11 They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever towards Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the LORD’s house had been laid.
彼らは互に歌いあって主をほめ、かつ感謝し、「主はめぐみ深く、そのいつくしみはとこしえにイスラエルに絶えることがない」と言った。そして民はみな主をさんびするとき、大声をあげて叫んだ。主の宮の基礎がすえられたからである。
12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,
しかし祭司、レビびと、氏族の長である多くの人々のうちに、もとの宮を見た老人たちがあったが、今この宮の基礎のすえられるのを見た時、大声をあげて泣いた。また喜びのために声をあげて叫ぶ者も多かった。
13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far away.
それで、人々は民の喜び叫ぶ声と、民の泣く声とを聞きわけることができなかった。民が大声に叫んだので、その声が遠くまで聞えたからである。
