ネヘミヤ 記 9
1 その月の二十四日にイスラエルの子孫あつまりて斷食し麻布を纒ひ土を蒙れり
And on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
2 イスラエルの裔たる者一切の異邦人とはなれ而して立て己の罪と先祖の愆とを懺悔し
And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
3 皆おのおのがその處に立てこの日の四分の一をもてその神ヱホバの律法の書を誦み他の四分の一をもて懺悔をなしその神ヱホバを拝めり
And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Jehovah their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshipped Jehovah their God.
4 時にヱシユア、バニ、カデミエル、シバニヤ、ブンニ、セレビヤ、バニ、ケナニ等レビ人の臺に立ち大聲を擧てその神ヱホバに呼はれり
Then stood up upon the platform of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, Chenani, and cried with a loud voice to Jehovah their God.
5 斯てまたヱシユア、カデミエル、バニ、ハシヤブニヤ、セレビヤ、ホデヤ、セバニヤ、ペタヒヤなどのレビ人言けらく汝ら起あがり永遠より永遠にわたりて在す汝らの神ヱホバを讃よ汝の尊き御名は讃べきかな是は一切の讃にも崇にも遠く超るなり
And the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, said, Stand up, bless Jehovah your God from eternity to eternity. And let [men] bless the name of thy glory, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
6 汝は唯なんぢのみヱホバにまします汝は天と諸天の天およびその萬象地とその上の一切の物ならびに海とその中の一切の物を造り之をことごとく保存せたまふなり天軍なんぢを拝す
Thou art the Same, thou alone, Jehovah, who hast made the heaven of heavens, and all their host, the earth and all that is therein, the seas and all that is therein. And thou quickenest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
7 汝はヱホバ神にまします汝は在昔アブラムを撰みてカルデヤのウルより之を導きいだしアブラハムといふ名をこれにつけ
Thou art the Same, Jehovah Elohim, who didst choose Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
8 その心の汝の前に忠信なるを觀そなはし之に契約を立てカナン人ヘテ人アモリ人ペリジ人ヱブス人およびギルガシ人の地をこれに與へその子孫に授けんと宣まひて終に汝の言を成たまへり汝は實に義し
and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest the covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, — to give it to his seed; and thou hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous.
9 汝は我らの先祖がエジプトにて艱難を受るを鑒みその紅海の邊にて呼はり叫ぶを聽いれ
And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;
10 異兆と奇蹟とをあらはしてパロとその諸臣とその國の庶民とを攻たまへりそはかれらは傲りて我らの先祖等を攻しことを知たまへばなり而して汝の名を揚たまへること尚今日のごとし
and didst shew signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants, and upon all the people of his land; for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them, and thou didst make thee a name, as it is this day.
11 汝はまた彼らの前にあたりて海を分ち彼らをして旱ける地を踏て海の中を通らしめ彼らを追ふ者をば石を大水に投いるるごとくに淵に投いれたまひ
And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they went through the midst of the sea on dry [ground]; and their pursuers thou threwest into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
12 また晝は雲の柱をもて彼らを導き夜は火の柱をもて其往べき路を照したまひき
And thou leddest them in the day by a pillar of cloud, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
13 汝はまたシナイ山の上に降り天より彼らと語ひ正しき例規および眞の律法善き法度および誡命を之に授け
And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
14 汝の聖安息日を之に示し汝の僕モーセの手によりて誡命と法度と律法を之に命じ
And thou madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant.
15 天より食物を之に與へてその餓をとどめ磐より水を之がために出してその渇を濕し且この國をなんぢらに與へんと手を擧て誓ひ給ひしその國に入これを獲べきことをかれらに命じたまへり
And thou gavest them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst say to them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
16 然るに彼等すなはち我らの先祖みづから傲りその項を強くして汝の誡命に聽したがはず
But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
17 聽從ふことを拒み亦なんぢが其中にて行ひたまひし奇蹟を憶はず還てその項を強くし悖りて自ら一人の首領を立てその奴隸たりし處に歸らんとせり然りと雖も汝は罪を赦す神にして恩惠あり憐憫あり怒ること遅く慈悲厚くましまして彼らを棄たまはざりき
and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not.
18 また彼ら自ら一箇の犢を鋳造りて是は汝をエジプトより導き上りし汝の神なりと言て大に震怒をひきおこす事を行ひし時にすら
Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt! and they had wrought great provocation,
19 汝は重々も憐憫を垂て彼らを荒野に棄たまはず晝は雲の柱その上を離れずして之を途に導き夜は火の柱離れずして之を照しその行べき路を示したりき
yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness. The pillar of the cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them on the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
20 汝はまた汝の善霊を賜ひて彼らを訓へ汝のマナを常に彼らの口にあたへまた水を彼らに與へてその渇をとどめ
Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
21 四十年の間かれらを荒野に養ひたまたれば彼らは何の缺る所もなくその衣服も古びずその足も腫ざりき
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes grew not old, and their feet swelled not.
22 而して汝諸國諸民を彼らにあたへて之を各々に分ち取しめ給へりかれらはシホンの地ヘシボンの王の地およびバシヤンの王オグの地を獲たり
And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, and didst divide them by countries; and they possessed the land of Sihon, as well the land of the king of Heshbon, as the land of Og king of Bashan.
23 斯てまた汝は彼らの子孫を増て空の星のごなくならしめ前にその先祖等に入て獲よと宣まひたる地に之を導きいりたまひしかば
And their children thou didst multiply as the stars of heaven, and thou broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers that they should go in to possess it.
24 則ちその子孫入てこの地を獲たり斯て汝この地にすめるカナン人をかれらの前に打伏せその王等およびその國の民をかれらの手に付して意のままに之を待はしめたまひき
And the children went in and possessed the land; and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, both their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
25 斯りしかば彼ら堅固なる邑々および膏腴なる地を取り各種の美物の充る家鑿井葡萄園橄欖園および許多の菓の樹を獲乃はち食ひて飽き肥太り汝の大なる恩惠に沾ひて樂みたりしが
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, wells digged, vineyards and olive-gardens, and fruit trees in abundance. And they did eat and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
26 尚も悖りて汝に叛き汝の律法を後に抛擲ち己を戒しめて汝に歸らせんとしたる預言者等を殺し大に震怒を惹おこす事を行なへり
But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
27 是に因て汝かれらをその敵の手に付して窘しめさせたまひしが彼らその艱難の時に汝に呼はりければ汝天より之を聽て重々も憐憫を加へ彼らに救ふ者を多く與へて彼らをその敵の手より救はせたまへり
And thou gavest them into the hand of their oppressors, and they oppressed them; and in the time of their distress, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from the heavens, and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their oppressors.
28 然るに彼らは安を獲の後復も汝の前に惡き事を行ひしかば汝かれらをその敵の手に棄おきて敵にこれを治めしめたまひけるが彼ら復立歸りて汝に呼はりたれば汝天よりこれを聽き憐憫を加へてしばしば彼らを助け
But when they had rest, they did evil again before thee; and thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies, and they had dominion over them; and again they cried unto thee, and thou heardest [them] from the heavens, and many times didst thou deliver them, according to thy mercies.
29 彼らを汝の律法に引もどさんとして戒しめたまへり然りと雖も彼らは自ら傲りて汝の誡命に聽したがはず汝の例規(人のこれを行はば之によりて生べしといふ者)を犯し肩を聳かし項を強くして聽ことをせざりき
And thou testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law; but they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man do, he shall live in them); and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
30 斯りしかど汝は年ひさしく彼らを容しおき汝の預言者等に由て汝の霊をもて彼らを戒めたまひしが彼等つひに耳を傾けざりしに因て彼らを國々の民等の手に付したまへり
And many years didst thou forbear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; but they would not give ear: and thou gavest them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
31 されど汝は憐憫おほくして彼らを全くは絶さず亦彼らを棄たまふことをも爲たまはざりき汝は恩惠あり憐憫ある神にましませばなり
Nevertheless for thy manifold mercies' sake, thou didst not make a full end of them nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
32 然ば我らの神大にして力強く且畏るべくして契約を保ち恩惠を施こしたまふ御神ねがはくはアッスリヤの王等の日より今日にいたるまで我儕の王等牧伯等祭司預言者我らの先祖汝の一切の民等に臨みし諸の苦難を小き事と觀たまはざれ
And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and loving-kindness, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the days of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
33 我らに臨みし諸の事につきては汝義く在せり汝の爲たまひし所は誠實にして我らの爲しところは惡かりしなり
But thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast acted according to truth, and we have done wickedly.
34 我らの王等牧伯等祭司父祖等は汝の律法を行はず汝が用ひて彼らを戒しめたまひしその誡命と證詞に聽從はざりき
And our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers, have not performed thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
35 即ち彼らは己の國に居り汝の賜ふ大なる恩惠に沾ひ汝が與へてその前に置たまひし廣き膏腴なる地にありける時に汝に事ふることを爲ず又ひるがへりて自己の惡き業をやむる事もせざりしなり
And they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land that thou didst set before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
36 鳴呼われらは今日奴隸たり汝が我らの先祖に與へてその中の產出物およびその中の佳物を食はせんとしたまひし地にて我らは奴隸となりをるこそはかなけれ
Behold, we are servants this day, and the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are bondmen in it.
37 この地は汝が我らの罪の故によりて我らの上に立たまひし王等のために衆多の產物を出すなり且また彼らは我らの身をも我らの家畜をも意のままに左右することを得れば我らは大難の中にあるなり
And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure; and we are in great distress.
38 此もろもろの事のために我ら今堅き契約を立てこれを書しるし我らの牧伯等我らのレビ人我らの祭司これに印す
And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests are at the sealing.
