Ezra 9
1 Now after these things were done, the captains came to me and said, The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands, but have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
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
2 For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.
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
3 And hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.
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
4 Then everyone who went in fear of the words of the God of Israel, because of the sin of those who had come back, came together to me; and I kept where I was, overcome with grief, till the evening offering.
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
5 And at the evening offering, having made myself low before God, I got up, and with signs of grief, falling down on my knees, with my hands stretched out to the Lord my God,
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
6 I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.
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
7 From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.
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
8 And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.
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
9 For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
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
10 And now, O our God, what are we to say after this? for we have not kept your laws,
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
11 Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from end to end.
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
12 So now do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well-being for ever; so that you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for ever.
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
13 And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;
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
14 Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?
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
15 O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.
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
