Esdra 3
1 Or come fu giunto il settimo mese, e i figliuoli d’Israele si furono stabiliti nelle loro città, il popolo si adunò come un sol uomo a Gerusalemme.
And now the seventh month had arrived, and the sons of Israel were in their cities. Then, the people were gathered together, like one man, in Jerusalem.
2 Allora Jeshua, figliuolo di Jotsadak, coi suoi fratelli sacerdoti, e Zorobabel, figliuolo di Scealtiel, coi suoi fratelli, si levarono e costruirono l’altare dell’Iddio d’Israele, per offrirvi sopra degli olocausti, com’è scritto nella legge di Mosè, uomo di Dio.
And Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, rose up with his brothers, the priests. And Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, rose up with his brothers. And they built the altar of the God of Israel, so that they might offer holocausts upon it, just as it was written in the law of Moses, the man of God.
3 Ristabilirono l’altare sulle sue basi, benché avessero paura a motivo dei popoli delle terre vicine, e vi offriron sopra olocausti all’Eterno: gli olocausti del mattino e della sera.
Now they set the altar of God upon its bases, while keeping the people of all the surrounding lands away from it. And they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord, morning and evening.
4 E celebrarono la festa delle Capanne, nel modo ch’è scritto, e offersero giorno per giorno olocausti secondo il numero prescritto per ciascun giorno;
And they kept the solemnity of tabernacles, just as it was written, and the holocaust of each day in order, according to the precept, the work of each day in its time.
5 poi offersero l’olocausto perpetuo, gli olocausti dei noviluni e di tutte le solennità sacre all’Eterno, e quelli di chiunque faceva qualche offerta volontaria all’Eterno.
And after these, they offered the continual holocaust, as much on the new moons as on all the solemnities of the Lord that were consecrated, and on all those when a voluntary gift was offered to the Lord.
6 Dal primo giorno del settimo mese cominciarono a offrire olocausti all’Eterno; ma le fondamenta del tempio dell’Eterno non erano ancora state gettate.
From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer holocausts to the Lord. But the temple of God had not yet been founded.
7 E diedero del danaro agli scalpellini ed ai legnaiuoli, e de’ viveri e delle bevande e dell’olio ai Sidoni e ai Tiri perché portassero per mare sino a Jafo del legname di cedro del Libano, secondo la concessione che Ciro, re di Persia, avea loro fatta.
And so they gave money to those who cut and laid stones. Similarly, they gave food, and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians, so that they would bring cedar wood, from Lebanon to the sea at Joppa, in accord with what had been commanded of them by Cyrus, the king of the Persians.
8 Il secondo anno del loro arrivo alla casa di Dio a Gerusalemme, il secondo mese, Zorobabel, figliuolo di Scealtiel, Jeshua, figliuolo di Jotsadak, con gli altri loro fratelli sacerdoti e Leviti, e tutti quelli ch’eran tornati dalla cattività a Gerusalemme, si misero all’opra; e incaricarono i Leviti dai vent’anni in su di dirigere i lavori della casa dell’Eterno.
Then, in the second year of their advent to the temple of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the remainder of their brothers, the priests, and the Levites, and all who had arrived from the captivity to Jerusalem, began, and they appointed Levites, from twenty years and over, to hasten the work of the Lord.
9 E Jeshua, coi suoi figliuoli, e i suoi fratelli, Kadmiel coi suoi figliuoli, figliuoli di Giuda, si presentarono come un sol uomo per dirigere quelli che lavoravano alla casa di Dio; lo stesso fecero i figliuoli di Henadad coi loro figliuoli e coi loro fratelli Leviti.
And Jeshua and his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, and the sons of Judah, like one man, stood so that they might have charge over those who did the work in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and their brothers, the Levites.
10 E quando i costruttori gettaron le fondamenta del tempio dell’Eterno, vi si fecero assistere i sacerdoti vestiti de’ loro paramenti, con delle trombe, e i Leviti, figliuoli d’Asaf, con de’ cembali, per lodare l’Eterno, secondo le direzioni date da Davide, re d’Israele.
And when the builders had founded the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their adornment with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, stood with cymbals, so that they might praise God by the hand of David, the king of Israel.
11 Ed essi cantavano rispondendosi a vicenda, celebrando e lodando l’Eterno, “perch’egli è buono, perché la sua benignità verso Israele dura in perpetuo”. E tutto il popolo mandava alti gridi di gioia, lodando l’Eterno, perché s’eran gettate le fondamenta della casa dell’Eterno.
And they sung together with hymns and confession to the Lord: “For he is good. For his mercy is over Israel unto eternity.” And likewise, all the people shouted with a great clamor in praise to the Lord, because the temple of the Lord had been founded.
12 E molti sacerdoti, Leviti e capi famiglia anziani che avean veduta la prima casa, piangevano ad alta voce mentre si gettavano le fondamenta della nuova casa. Molti altri invece alzavan le loro voci, gridando per allegrezza;
And many of the priests and the Levites, and the leaders of the fathers and of the elders, who had seen the former temple, when now this temple was founded and was before their eyes, wept with a great voice. And many of them, shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.
13 in guisa che non si potea discernere il rumore delle grida d’allegrezza da quello del pianto del popolo; perché il popolo mandava di gran gridi, e il rumore se n’udiva di lontano.
Neither could anyone distinguish between the voice of clamor of joy, and a voice of weeping of the people. For the shouting of the people mixed into a great clamor, and the voice was heard from far away.
