Nehemiah 9
1 Then, on the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the sons of Israel came together in fasting and in sackcloth, and with soil upon them.
その月の二十四日にイスラエルの人々は集まって断食し、荒布をまとい、土をかぶった。
2 And the offspring of the sons of Israel were separated from all the sons of foreigners. And they stood up, and they confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
そしてイスラエルの子孫は、すべての異邦人を離れ、立って自分の罪と先祖の不義とをざんげした。
3 And they arose to stand. And they read in the volume of the law of the Lord their God, four times in the day, and four times they confessed. And they adored the Lord their God.
彼らはその所に立って、その日の四分の一をもってその神、主の律法の書を読み、他の四分の一をもってざんげをなし、その神、主を拝した。
4 Then, upon the step of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, and Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani rose up. And they cried out in a great voice to the Lord their God.
その時エシュア、バニ、カデミエル、シバニヤ、ブンニ、セレビヤ、バニ、ケナニらはレビびとの台の上に立ち、大声をあげて、その神、主に呼ばわった。
5 And the Levites, Jeshua and Kadmiel, Bunni, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said: “Rise up. Bless the Lord your God, from eternity even to eternity! And blessed be the exalted name of your glory, with all blessing and praise.
それからまたエシュア、カデミエル、バニ、ハシャブニヤ、セレビヤ、ホデヤ、セバニヤ、ペタヒヤなどのレビびとは言った、「立ちあがって永遠から永遠にいますあなたがたの神、主をほめなさい。あなたの尊いみ名はほむべきかな。これはすべての祝福とさんびを越えるものです」。
6 You yourself alone, O Lord, made heaven, and the heaven of the heavens, and all their host, the earth and all things that are in it, the seas and all things that are in them. And you gave life to all these things. And the host of heaven adores you.
またエズラは言った、「あなたは、ただあなたのみ、主でいらせられます。あなたは天と諸天の天と、その万象、地とその上のすべてのもの、海とその中のすべてのものを造り、これをことごとく保たれます。天の万軍はあなたを拝します。
7 You yourself, O Lord God, are the One who chose Abram. And you led him away from the fire of the Chaldeans, and you gave him the name Abraham.
あなたは主、神でいらせられます。あなたは昔アブラムを選んでカルデヤのウルから導き出し、彼にアブラハムという名を与え、
8 And you found his heart to be faithful before you. And you formed a covenant with him, so that you might give to him the land of the Canaanite, of the Hittite, and of the Amorite, and of the Perizzite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Girgashite, so that you might give it to his offspring. And you have fulfilled your words, for you are just.
彼の心があなたの前に忠信なのを見られて、彼と契約を結び、その子孫にカナンびと、ヘテびと、アモリびと、ペリジびと、エブスびとおよびギルガシびとの地を与えると言われたが、ついにあなたはその約束を成就されました。あなたは正しくいらせられるからです。
9 And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt. And you heard their outcry beside the Red Sea.
あなたはわれわれの先祖がエジプトで苦難を受けるのを顧みられ、また紅海のほとりで呼ばわり叫ぶのを聞きいれられ、
10 And you gave signs and portents to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to the people of his land. For you knew that they acted arrogantly against them. And you made a name for yourself, just as it is in this day.
しるしと不思議とをあらわしてパロと、そのすべての家来と、その国のすべての民を攻められました。彼らがわれわれの先祖に対して、ごうまんにふるまったことを知られたからです。そしてあなたが名をあげられたこと今日のようです。
11 And you divided the sea before them, and they crossed through the midst of the sea on dry land. But their pursuers you cast into the depths, like a stone into great waters.
あなたはまた彼らの前で海を分け、彼らに、かわいた地を踏んで海の中を通らせ、彼らを追う者を、石を大水に投げ入れるように淵に投げ入れ、
12 And in the pillar of cloud, you were their leader by day, and in the pillar of fire, by night, so that they might see the way along which they might advance.
昼は雲の柱をもって彼らを導き、夜は火の柱をもってその行くべき道を照されました。
13 You also descended to mount Sinai, and you spoke with them from heaven. And you gave them upright judgments, and the law of truth, and ceremonies, and good precepts.
あなたはまたシナイ山の上に下り、天から彼らと語り、正しいおきてと、まことの律法および良きさだめと戒めとを授け、
14 You revealed to them your sanctified Sabbath, and you instructed them in commandments, and ceremonies, and the law, by the hand of Moses, your servant.
あなたの聖なる安息日を彼らに示し、あなたのしもべモーセによって戒めと、さだめと、律法とを彼らに命じ、
15 You also gave them bread from heaven in their hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their thirst. And you said to them that they should enter and possess the land, over which you lifted up your hand so that you might give it to them.
天から食物を与えてその飢えをとどめ、岩から水を出してそのかわきを潤し、また、彼らに与えると誓われたその国にはいって、これを獲るように彼らに命じられました。
16 Yet truly, they and our fathers acted arrogantly, and they hardened their necks, and they did not listen to your commandments.
しかし彼ら、すなわちわれわれの先祖はごうまんにふるまい、かたくなで、あなたの戒めに従わず、
17 And they were not willing to hear, and they did not remember, your miracles which you had accomplished for them. And they hardened their necks, and they offered their head, so that they would return to their servitude, as if in contention. But you, a forgiving God, lenient and merciful, longsuffering and full of compassion, did not abandon them.
従うことを拒み、あなたが彼らの中で行われた奇跡を心にとめず、かえってかたくなになり、みずからひとりのかしらを立てて、エジプトの奴隷の生活に帰ろうとしました。しかしあなたは罪をゆるす神、恵みあり、あわれみあり、怒ることおそく、いつくしみ豊かにましまして、彼らを捨てられませんでした。
18 Indeed, even when they had made for themselves a molten calf, and they had said, ‘This is your God, who led you away from Egypt!’ and had committed great blasphemies,
また彼らがみずから一つの鋳物の子牛を造って、『これはあなたがたをエジプトから導き上ったあなたがたの神である』と言って、大いに汚し事を行った時にも、
19 even so, in the multitude of your mercies, you did not send them away in the desert. The pillar of cloud did not withdraw from them by day, so that it might lead them on the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, so that it might show them the way along which they might advance.
あなたは大いなるあわれみをもって彼らを荒野に見捨てられず、昼は雲の柱を彼らの上から離さないで道々彼らを導き、夜は火の柱をもって彼らの行くべき道を照されました。
20 And you gave them your good Spirit, so that he might teach them, and you did not withhold your manna from their mouth, and you gave them water in their thirst.
またあなたは良きみたまを賜わって彼らを教え、あなたのマナを常に彼らの口に与え、また水を彼らに与えて、かわきをとどめ、
21 For forty years, you fed them in the desert, and nothing was lacking to them; their garments did not grow old, and their feet were not worn down.
四十年の間彼らを荒野で養われたので、彼らはなんの欠けるところもなく、その衣服も古びず、その足もはれませんでした。
22 And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, and you distributed to them by lot. And they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, the king of Bashan.
そしてあなたは彼らに諸国、諸民を与えて、これをすべて分かち取らせられました。彼らはヘシボンの王シホンの領地、およびバシャンの王オグの領地を獲ました。
23 And you multiplied their sons like the stars of heaven. And you led them into the land, about which you had said to their fathers that they would enter and possess it.
また彼らの子孫を増して空の星のようにし、彼らの先祖たちに、はいって獲よと言われた地に彼らを導き入れられたので、
24 And the sons arrived and possessed the land. And you humbled the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, before them. And you delivered them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, so that they might do with them just as it was pleasing to them.
その子孫は、はいってこの地を獲ました。あなたはまた、この地に住むカナンびとを彼らの前に征服し、その王たちおよびその地の民を彼らの手に渡して、意のままに扱わせられました。
25 And so they seized fortified cities and fat soil. And they possessed houses filled with all kinds of goods, cisterns made by others, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. And they ate and were satisfied. And they were fattened, and they abounded with delights from your great goodness.
それで彼らは堅固な町々および肥えた地を取り、もろもろの良い物の満ちた家、掘池、ぶどう畑、オリブ畑および多くの果樹を獲、食べて飽き、肥え太り、あなたの大いなる恵みによって楽しみました。
26 But they provoked you to wrath, and they withdrew from you, and they cast your law behind their backs. And they killed your prophets, who contended with them so that they might return to you. And they committed great blasphemies.
それにもかかわらず彼らは不従順で、あなたにそむき、あなたの律法を後に投げ捨て、彼らを戒めて、あなたに立ち返らせようとした預言者たちを殺し、大いに汚し事を行いました。
27 And so you gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they afflicted them. And in the time of their tribulation, they cried out to you, and from heaven you heard them. And in accord with your great compassion, you gave to them saviors, who might save them from the hand of their enemies.
そこであなたは彼らを敵の手に渡して苦しめられましたが、彼らがその苦難の時にあなたに呼ばわったので、あなたは天からこれを聞かれ、大いなるあわれみをもって彼らに救う者を与え、敵の手から救わせられました。
28 But after they had rested, they turned back, so that they did evil in your sight. And you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, and they possessed them. And they converted, and they cried out to you. And from heaven you heeded them, and you freed them many times, by your mercies.
ところが彼らは安息を得るやいなや、またあなたの前に悪事を行ったので、あなたは彼らを敵の手に捨て置いて、これに治めさせられましたが、彼らがまた立ち返ってあなたに呼ばわったので、あなたは天からこれを聞き、あわれみをもってしばしば彼らを救い出し、
29 And you contended with them, so that they might return to your law. Yet truly, they acted in arrogance, and they did not listen to your commandments, and they sinned against your judgments, which, if a man does them, he shall live by them. And they withdrew from offering their shoulder, and they hardened their neck; neither would they listen.
彼らを戒めて、あなたの律法に引きもどそうとされました。けれども彼らはごうまんにふるまい、あなたの戒めに従わず、人がこれを行うならば、これによって生きるというあなたのおきてを破って罪を犯し、肩をそびやかし、かたくなになって、聞き従おうとはしませんでした。
30 And you continued to forbear them for many years. And you contended with them by your Spirit, through the hand of your prophets. And they did not listen, and so you delivered them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
それでもあなたは年久しく彼らを忍び、あなたの預言者たちにより、あなたのみたまをもって彼らを戒められましたが、彼らは耳を傾けなかったので、彼らを国々の民の手に渡されました。
31 Yet in your very many mercies, you did not cause them to be consumed, nor did you abandon them. For you are a compassionate and lenient God.
しかしあなたは大いなるあわれみによって彼らを絶やさず、また彼らを捨てられませんでした。あなたは恵みあり、あわれみある神でいらせられるからです。
32 Now therefore, our great God, strong and terrible, who keeps covenant and mercy, may you not avert your face from all the hardship that has found us, we and our kings, and our leaders, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people, from the days of king Assur, even to this day.
それゆえ、われわれの神、契約を保ち、いつくしみを施される大いにして力強く、恐るべき神よ、アッスリヤの王たちの時から今日まで、われわれとわれわれの王たち、つかさたち、祭司たち、預言者たち、先祖たち、およびあなたのすべての民に臨んだもろもろの苦難を小さい事と見ないでください。
33 For you are just, concerning all things that have overwhelmed us. For you have done truth, but we have acted impiously.
われわれに臨んだすべての事について、あなたは正しいのです。あなたは誠実をもって行われたのに、われわれは悪を行ったのです。
34 Our kings, our leaders, our priests, and our fathers have not done your law, and they have not been attentive to your commandments and your testimonies, to which you have testified among them.
われわれの王たち、つかさたち、祭司たち、先祖たちはあなたの律法を行わず、あなたがお与えになった命令と戒めとに聞き従いませんでした。
35 And they have not served you, in their kingdoms and with your many good things, which you gave to them, and in the very wide and fat land, which you delivered into their sight, nor did they return from their most wicked pursuits.
すなわち彼らはおのれの国におり、あなたが下さった大きな恵みのうちにおり、またあなたがお与えになった広い肥えた地におりながら、あなたに仕えず、また自分の悪いわざをやめることをしませんでした。
36 Behold, we ourselves this day are servants. And the land, which you gave to our fathers so that they might eat its bread and have its good things, we ourselves are servants within it.
われわれは今日奴隷です。あなたがわれわれの先祖に与えて、その実とその良き物とを食べさせようとされた地で、われわれは奴隷となっているのです。
37 And its fruits are multiplied for the kings, whom you have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies, and over our cattle, according to their will. And we are in great tribulation.
そしてこの地はわれわれの罪のゆえに、あなたがわれわれの上に立てられた王たちのために多くの産物を出しています。かつ彼らはわれわれの身をも、われわれの家畜をも意のままに左右することができるので、われわれは大いなる苦難のうちにあるのです」。
38 Therefore, concerning all of these things, we ourselves are forming and writing a covenant, and our leaders, our Levites, and our priests are signing it.”
このもろもろの事のためにわれわれは堅い契約を結んで、これを記録し、われわれのつかさたち、レビびとたち祭司たちはこれに印を押した。
