ネヘミヤ 記 4

1 茲にサンバラテわれらが石垣を築くを聞て怒り大に憤ほりてユダヤ人を罵れり

And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard that we are building the wall, that it is displeasing to him, and he is very angry and mocketh at the Jews,

2 即ち彼その兄弟等およびサマリアの軍兵の前に語りて言ふ此軟弱しきユダヤ人何を爲や自ら強くせんとするか獻祭をなさんとするか一日に事を終んとするか塵堆の中の石は既に燬たるに之を取出して活さんとするかと

and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, 'What [are] the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? — and they burnt!'

3 時にアンモニ人トビヤその傍にありてまた言ふ彼らの築く石垣は狐上るも圮るべしと

And Tobiah the Ammonite [is] by him and saith, 'Also, that which they are building — if a fox doth go up, then it hath broken down their stone wall.'

4 我らの神よ聴たまへ我らは侮らる願くは彼らの出す凌辱をその身の首に歸し彼らを他國に擄はれしめ掠られしめたまへ

Hear, O our God, for we have been despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them for a spoil in a land of captivity;

5 彼らの愆を蔽ひたまふ勿れ彼らの罪を汝の前より消去しめたまはざれ其は彼ら築建者の前にて汝の怒を惹おこしたればなり

and do not cover over their iniquity, and their sin from before Thee let not be blotted out, for they have provoked to anger — over-against those building.

6 斯われら石垣を築きけるが石垣はみな已に相連なりてその高さの半にまで及べり其は民心をこめて操作たればなり

And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined — unto its half, and the people have a heart to work.

7 然るにサンバラテ、トビヤ、アラビヤ人アンモニ人アシドド人等ヱルサレムの石垣改修れ其破壊も次第に塞がると聞て大に怒り

And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, that lengthening hath gone up to the walls of Jerusalem, that the breeches have begun to be stopped, then it is very displeasing to them,

8 皆ともに相結びてヱルサレムに攻來らんとしその中に擾亂をおこさんとせり

and they conspire, all of them together, to come in to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.

9 是において我ら神に祈祷をなしかれらのために日夜守望者を置て之に備ふ

And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.

10 ユダ人は言り荷を負ふ者の力衰へしが上に灰土おびただしくして我ら石垣を築くこと能はずと

And Judah saith, 'The power of the burden-bearers hath become feeble, and the rubbish [is] abundant, and we are not able to build on the wall.'

11 我らの敵は言り彼等が知ずまた見ざる間に我ら其中に入り之を殺してその工事を止めんと

And our adversaries say, 'They do not know, nor see, till that we come in to their midst, and have slain them, and caused the work to cease.'

12 又彼らの辺に住るユダヤ人來る時は我らに告て言ふ汝ら我らの所に歸らざるべからずと其事十次にも及べり

And it cometh to pass, when the Jews have come who are dwelling near them, that they say to us ten times from all the places whither ye return — [they are] against us.

13 是に因て我石垣の後の顕露なる低き處に民を置き劍鎗または弓を持せてその宗族にしたがひて之をそなふ

And I appoint at the lowest of the places, at the back of the wall, in the clear places, yea, I appoint the people, by their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

14 我観めぐり起て貴き人々および牧伯等ならびにその餘の民に告て云ふ汝ら彼等のために懼るる勿れ主の大にして畏るべきを憶ひ汝らの兄弟のため男子女子のため妻および家のために戦かへよと

And I see, and rise up, and say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects, and unto the rest of the people, 'Be not afraid of them; the Lord, the great and the fearful, remember ye, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.'

15 我らの敵おのが事の我らに知れたるをききておのが謀計を神に破られたるを聞しによりて我ら皆石垣に歸り各々その工事をなせり

And it cometh to pass, when our enemies have heard that it hath been known to us, and God doth frustrate their counsel, and we turn back, all of us, unto the wall, each unto his work;

16 其時より後わが僕半は工事に操作き半は鎗楯弓などを持て鎧を着たり牧伯等はユダの全家の後にありき

yea, it cometh to pass, from that day, half of my servants are working in the business, and half of them are keeping hold of both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the heads [are] behind all the house of Judah.

17 石垣を築く者および荷を負ひはこぶ者は各々片手もて工事を爲し片手に武器を執り

The builders on the wall, and the bearers of the burden, those lading, [each] with one of his hands is working in the business, and one is laying hold of the missile.

18 築建者はおのおのその腰に劍を帯て築き建つ又喇叭を吹く者は我傍あり

And the builders [are] each with his sword, girded on his loins, and building, and he who is blowing with a trumpet [is] beside me.

19 我貴き人々および牧伯等ならびにその餘の民に告て云ふ此工事は大にして廣ければ我儕石垣にありて彼此に相離ること遠し

And I say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects, and unto the rest of the people, 'The work is abundant, and large, and we are separated on the wall, far off one from another;

20 何處にもあれ汝ら喇叭の音のきこゆるを聞ば其處に奔あつまりて我らに就け我らの神われらのために戦ひたまふべしと

in the place that ye hear the voice of the trumpet thither ye are gathered unto us; our God doth fight for us.'

21 我ら斯して工事をなしけるが半の者は東雲の出るより星の現はるるまで鎗を持をれり

And we are working in the business, and half of them are keeping hold of the spears, from the going up of the dawn till the coming forth of the stars.

22 當時われ亦民に言らく皆おのおのその僕とともにヱルサレムの中に宿り夜は我らの防守となり昼は工事をつとむべしと

Also, at that time I said to the people, 'Let each with his servant lodge in the midst of Jerusalem, and they have been to us by night a guard, and by day [for] the work:'

23 而して我もわが兄弟等もわが僕も我に從がふ防守の人々もその衣服を脱す水を汲に出るにも皆武器を執れり

and there are none — I and my brethren and my servants, the men of the guard who [are] after me — there are none of us putting off our garments, each [hath] his vessel of water.