エズラ記 9
1 是等の事の成し後牧伯等我許にきたりて言ふ イスラエルの民祭司およびレビ人は諸國の民とはなれずしてカナン人ヘテ人ペリジ人エビス人アンモニ人モアブ人エジプト人アモリ人などの中なる憎むべき事を行へり
Now when these things were completed, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, [even] of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites;
2 即ち彼等の女子を自ら娶りまたその男子に娶れば聖種諸國の民と相雜れり牧伯たる者 長たる者さきだちてこの愆を犯せりと
for they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and have mingled the holy seed with the peoples of the lands; and the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this unfaithfulness.
3 我この事を聞て我衣と袍を裂き頭髮と鬚を抜き驚き呆れて坐せり
And when I heard this thing, I rent my mantle and my garment, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down overwhelmed.
4 イスラエルの神の言を戰慄おそるる者はみな俘囚より歸り來し者等の愆の故をもて我許に集まりしが我は晩の供物の時まで驚きつつ茫然として坐しぬ
Then were assembled to me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the unfaithfulness of those that had been carried away; and I sat overwhelmed until the evening oblation.
5 晩の供物の時にいたり我その苦行より起て衣と袍とを裂たるまま膝を屈めてわが神ヱホバにむかひ手を舒て
And at the evening oblation I arose up from my humiliation; and with my mantle and my garment rent, I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Jehovah my God,
6 言けるは我神よ我はわが神に向ひて面を擧るを羞て赧らむ 其は我らの罪積りて頭の上に出で我らの愆重りて天に達すればなり
and said: O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over [our] head, and our trespass is grown up to the heavens.
7 我らの先祖の日より今日にいたるまで我らは大なる愆を身に負り 我らの罪の故によりて我儕と我らの王等および祭司たちは國々の王等の手に付され劍にかけられ擄へゆかれ掠められ面に恥をかうぶれり 今日のごとし
Since the days of our fathers, we have been in great trespass to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, our priests, have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, and to captivity, and to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
8 然るに今われらの神ヱホバ暫く恩典を施こして逃れ存すべき者を我らの中に殘し我らをしてその聖所にうちし釘のごとくならしめ斯して我らの神われらの目を明にし我らをして奴隸の中にありて少く生る心地せしめたまへり
And now for a little space there hath been favour from Jehovah our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
9 そもそも我らは奴隸の身なるがその奴隸たる時にも我らの神われらを忘れず反てペルシヤの王等の目の前にて我らに憐憫を施こして我らに活る心地せしめ我らの神の室を建しめ其破壞を修理はしめユダとヱルサレムにて我らに石垣をたまふ
For we are bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us before the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God and to repair the ruins thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
10 我らの神よ已に是のごとくなれば我ら今何と言のべんや 我儕はやくも汝の命令を棄たればなり
And now, what shall we say, our God, after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
11 汝かつて汝の僕なる預言者等によりて命じて宣へり 云く汝らが往て獲んとする地はその各地の民の汚穢により其憎むべき事によりて汚れたる地にして此極より彼極までその汚穢盈わたるなり
which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess [it], is an unclean land through the filthiness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations with which they have filled it from one end to another through their uncleanness.
12 然ば汝らの女子を彼らの男子に與ふる勿れ 彼らの女子をなんぢらの男子に娶る勿れ 又何時までもかれらの爲に平安をも福祿をも求むべからず 然すれば汝ら旺盛にしてその地の佳物を食ふことを得永くこれを汝らの子孫に傳へて產業となさしむることを得んと
Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
13 我らの惡き行により我らの大なる愆によりて此事すべて我儕に臨みたりしが汝我らの神はわれらの罪よりも輕く我らを罰して我らの中に是のごとく人を遺したまひたれば
And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities [deserve], and hast given us such deliverance as this,
14 我儕再び汝の命令を破りて是等の憎むべき行ある民と縁を結ぶべけんや 汝我らを怒りて終に滅ぼし盡し遺る者も逃るる者も無にいたらしめたまはざらんや
should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples of these abominations? wouldest thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor any to escape?
15 イスラエルの神ヱホバよ汝は義し 即ち我ら逃れて遺ること今日のごとし 今我ら罪にまとはれて汝の前にあり 是がために一人として汝の前に立ことを得る者なきなり
Jehovah, God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we are a remnant that is escaped, as [it is] this day. Behold, we are before thee in our trespasses; for there is no standing before thee because of this.
