哀歌 3
1 我はかれの震怒の笞によりて艱難に遭たる人なり
[ALEPH-BET] I [am] the man [who] has seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.
2 かれは我をひきて黑暗をあゆませ光明にゆかしめたまはず
He has led me, and causes to go [in] darkness, and without light.
3 まことに屢々その手をむけて終日われを攻なやまし
Surely against me He turns back, He turns His hand all the day.
4 わが肉と肌膚をおとろへしめ わが骨を摧き
He has worn out my flesh and my skin. He has broken my bones.
5 われにむかひて患苦と艱難を築きこれをもて我を圍み
He has built up against me, And sets around poverty and weariness.
6 われをして長久に死し者のごとく暗き處に住しめ
In dark places He has caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.
7 我をかこみて出ること能はざらしめわが鏈索を重くしたまへり
He has hedged me in, and I do not go out, He has made heavy my chain.
8 我さけびて助をもとめしとき彼わが祈禱をふせぎ
Also when I call and cry out, He has shut out my prayer.
9 斫たる石をもてわが道を塞ぎわが途をまげたまへり
He has hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He has made crooked.
10 その我に對することは伏て伺がふ熊のごとく潜みかくるる獅子のごとし
A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, A lion in secret hiding places.
11 われに路を離れしめ 我をひきさきて獨くるしましめ
My ways He is turning aside, and He pulls me in pieces, He has made me a desolation.
12 弓を張りてわれを矢先の的となし
He has bent His bow, And sets me up as a mark for an arrow.
13 矢筒の矢をもてわが腰を射ぬきたまへり
He has caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.
14 われはわがすべての民のあざけりとなり 終日うたひそしらる
I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.
15 かれ我をして苦き物に飽しめ茵蔯を飮しめ
He has filled me with bitter things, He has filled me [with] wormwood.
16 小石をもてわが齒を摧き灰をもて我を蒙ひたまへり
And He breaks with gravel my teeth, He has covered me with ashes.
17 なんぢわが靈魂をして平和を遠くはなれしめたまへば我は福祉をわすれたり
And You cast off my soul from peace, I have forgotten prosperity.
18 是において我みづから言り わが氣力うせゆきぬ ヱホバより何を望むべきところ無しと
And I say, My strength and my hope have perished from YHWH.
19 ねがはくは我が艱難と苦楚茵蔯と膽汁とを心に記たまへ
Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!
20 わがたましひは今なほ是らの事を想ひてわが衷に鬱ぐ
Remember well, and my soul bows down in me.
21 われこの事を心におもひ起せり この故に望をいだくなり
This I turn to my heart—therefore I hope.
22 われらの尚ほろびざるはヱホバの仁愛によりその憐憫の盡ざるに因る
The kindnesses of YHWH! For we have not been consumed, For His mercies have not ended.
23 これは朝ごとに新なり なんぢの誠實はおほいなるかな
New every morning, abundant [is] Your faithfulness.
24 わが靈魂は言ふ ヱホバはわが分なり このゆゑに我彼を待ち望まん
My portion [is] YHWH, my soul has said, Therefore I hope for Him.
25 ヱホバはおのれを待ち望む者とおのれを尋ねもとむる人に恩惠をほどこしたまふ
YHWH [is] good to those waiting for Him, To the soul [that] seeks Him.
26 ヱホバの救拯をのぞみて靜にこれを待は善し
[It is] good when one stays and stands still For the salvation of YHWH.
27 人わかき時に軛を負は善し
[It is] good for a man that he bears a yoke in his youth.
28 ヱホバこれを負せたまふなれば獨坐して默すべし
He sits alone, and is silent, For He has laid [it] on him.
29 口を塵につけよ あるひは望あらん
He puts his mouth in the dust, if so be, there is hope.
30 おのれを撃つ者に頬をむけ 充足れるまでに恥辱をうけよ
He gives to his striker the cheek, He is filled with reproach.
31 そは主は永久に棄ることを爲たまはざるべければなり
For the Lord does not cast off for all time.
32 かれは患難を與へ給ふといへどもその慈悲おほいなればまた憐憫を加へたまふなり
For though He afflicted, yet He has pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.
33 心より世の人をなやましかつ苦しめ給ふにはあらざるなり
For He has not afflicted with His heart, Nor does He grieve the sons of men.
34 世のもろもろの俘囚人を脚の下にふみにじり
To bruise under one’s feet any bound ones of earth,
35 至高者の面の前にて人の理を抂げ
To turn aside the judgment of a man, Before the face of the Most High,
36 人の詞訟を屈むることは主のよろこび給はざるところなり
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord has not approved.
37 主の命じたまふにあらずば誰か事を述んにその事即ち成んや
Who [is] this—he has spoken, and it is, [And] the Lord has not commanded [it]?
38 禍も福もともに至高者の口より出るにあらずや
From the mouth of the Most High does not go forth the evils and the good.
39 活る人なんぞ怨言べけんや 人おのれの罪の罰せらるるをつぶやくべけんや
Why does a living man sigh habitually, A man for his sin?
40 我等みづからの行をしらべかつ省みてヱホバに歸るべし
We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back to YHWH.
41 我ら天にいます神にむかひて手とともに心をも擧べし
We lift up our heart on the hands to God in the heavens.
42 われらは罪ををかし我らは叛きたり なんぢこれを赦したまはざりき
We have transgressed and been rebellious, You have not forgiven.
43 なんぢ震怒をもてみづから蔽ひ 我らを追攻め殺してあはれまず
You have covered Yourself with anger, And pursue us; You have slain—You have not pitied.
44 雲をもてみづから蔽ひ 祈禱をして通ぜざらしめ
You have covered Yourself with a cloud, So that prayer does not pass through.
45 もろもろの民の中にわれらを塵埃となしたまへり
Outcast and refuse You make us In the midst of the peoples.
46 敵は皆われらにむかひて口を張れり
Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.
47 恐懼と陷阱また暴行と滅亡我らに來れり
Fear and a snare has been for us, Desolation and destruction.
48 わが民の女の滅亡によりてわが眼には涙の河ながる
Streams of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 わが目は斷ず涙をそそぎて止ず
My eye is poured out, And does not cease without intermission,
50 天よりヱホバの臨み見て顧みたまふ時にまで至らん
Until YHWH looks and sees from the heavens,
51 わが邑の一切の女等の故によりてわが眼はわが心をいたましむ
My eye affects my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.
52 故なくして我に敵する者ども鳥を追ごとくにいたく我をおひ
Hunting—my enemies have hunted me without cause like the bird.
53 わが生命を坑の中にほろぼし わが上に石を投かけ
They have cut off my life in a pit, And they cast a stone against me.
54 また水わが頭の上に溢る 我みづから言り滅びうせぬと
Waters have flowed over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.
55 ヱホバよ われ深き坑の底より汝の名を呼り
I called Your Name, O YHWH, from the lower pit.
56 なんぢ我が聲を聽たまへり わが哀歎と祈求に耳をおほひたまふなかれ
You have heard my voice, do not hide Your ear at my breathing—at my cry.
57 わが汝を龥たりし時なんぢは近よりたまひて恐るるなかれと宣へり
You have drawn near in the day I call You, You have said, Do not fear.
58 主よなんぢはわが靈魂の訴を助け伸べ わが生命を贖ひ給へり
You have pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, You have redeemed my life.
59 ヱホバよ なんぢは我がかうむりたる不義を見たまへり 願はくは我に正しき審判を與へたまへ
You have seen, O YHWH, my overthrow, Judge my cause.
60 なんぢは彼らが我を怨み われを害せんとはかるを凡て見たまへり
You have seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me.
61 ヱホバよなんぢは彼らが我を詈り 我を害せんとはかるを凡て聞たまへり
You have heard their reproach, O YHWH, All their thoughts against me,
62 かの立て我に逆らふ者等の言語およびその終日われを攻んとて運らす謀計もまた汝これを聞たまへり
The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.
63 ねがはくは彼らの起居をかんがみたまへ 我はかれらに歌ひそしらる
Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I [am] their song.
64 ヱホバよ なんぢは彼らが手に爲すところに循がひて報をなし
You return to them the deed, O YHWH, According to the work of their hands.
65 かれらをして心くらからしめたまはん なんぢの呪詛かれらに歸せよ
You give to them a covered heart, Your curse to them.
66 なんぢは震怒をもてかれらを追ひ ヱホバの天の下よりかれらをほろぼし絶たまはん
You pursue in anger, and destroy them, From under the heavens of YHWH!
