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
Then, after these things were completed, the leaders came to me, saying: “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not been separated from the peoples of the lands and from their abominations, especially those of the Canaanites, and Hittites, and Perizzites, and Jebusites, and Ammonites, and Moabites, and Egyptians, and 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 from their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and they have mixed a holy lineage with the peoples of the lands. And even the hand of the leaders and the magistrates has been first in this transgression.”
3 我この事を聞て我衣と袍を裂き頭髪と鬚を抜き驚き呆れて坐せり
And when I had heard this word, I tore my cloak and my tunic, and I pulled out the hairs of my head and beard, and I sat in mourning.
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 all those who feared the word of the God of Israel gathered to me, because of the transgression of those who had arrived from the captivity. And I sat in sorrow, until the evening sacrifice.
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 sacrifice, I rose up from my affliction, and, having torn my cloak and my tunic, I fell to my knees, and I reached out my hands to the Lord, 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 I said: “My God, I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to you. For our iniquities have been multiplied over our heads, and our offenses have increased, even up to heaven,
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
from the days of our fathers. But also, we ourselves have sinned gravely, even to this day. And for our iniquities, we ourselves, and our kings and our priests, have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the lands, and to the sword, and to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, just as it is also in 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隷の中にありて少く生る心地せしめたまへり
And now, to a small extent and for a moment, our petition has been made with the Lord our God, so that they may leave us a remnant, and so that a secure place in his holy land may be given to us, and so that our God may illuminate our eyes, and may give us a little life in our servitude.
9 そもそも我らは奴隷の身なるがその奴隷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 servants, yet in our servitude our God has not forsaken us, but he has inclined mercy upon us in the sight of the king of the Persians, so that he may give us life, and may raise up the house of our God, and repair its desolations, and give us a hedge in Judah and 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, our God, what should we say after these things? For we abandoned your 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 you instructed by the hand of your servants, the prophets, saying: ‘The land, which you shall enter so that you may possess it, is an unclean land, due to the uncleanness of the peoples and of the other lands, the abominations of those who have filled it, from mouth to mouth, with their filth.’
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産業となさしむることを得んと
Now therefore, you should not give your daughters to their sons, nor should you receive their daughters for your sons. And you should not seek their peace, nor their prosperity, even forever. So shall you be strengthened, and so shall you eat the good things of the land, and have your sons as your heirs, even for all time.
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 has happened to us because of our very wicked works and our great offense, you, our God, have freed us from our iniquity, and you have given us salvation, just as it is this day,
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
so that we would not turn away and make your commandments void, and so that we would not unite in marriage with the peoples of these abominations. Could you be angry with us even to the very end, so that you would not leave us a remnant to be saved?
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
O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just. For we have been left behind to be saved, just as it is this day. Behold, we are before your sight in our offense. And it is not possible to withstand you in this matter.”
