Nehemiah 9
1 On October 31, the people gathered together again. They (fasted/abstained from eating food), they wore clothes made from rough cloth, and they put dirt on their heads [to show that they were sorry for their sins].
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
2 The Israeli people separated themselves from all the foreigners. They stood there and confessed their sins and the sins that their ancestors had committed.
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
3 The scroll that contained the laws of Yahweh, the God whom they [worshiped], was read to them for three hours. Then for three more hours they confessed their sins and they worshiped Yahweh.
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
4 [Some of] the descendants of Levi were standing on the stairs. They were Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, [another] Bani, and Kenani.
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
5 Then [the leaders of] the Levites called out to the people. They were Jeshua, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah. They said, “While you are standing there, praise Yahweh your God, who has always lived and will live forever!” [Then one of them continued by praying this to God], “Yahweh, we praise your glorious name! You are much greater than anything that we can think about or talk about!
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
6 “You only are God. You made the sky and the heavens and all the stars. You made the earth and everything that is on it, and you made the seas/oceans and everything that is in them. You are the one who gives life to everything and helps them remain alive. All the angels who are in heaven worship you.
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
7 “Yahweh, you are God. You chose Abram and brought him out of Ur [city] in Chaldea [region]. You gave him a new name, Abraham.
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
8 You saw that he was trustworthy. Then you made (an agreement with/a promise to) him, saying that you would give [to him and] to his descendants the land that the descendants of Canaan, Heth, Amor, Periz, Jebus, and Girgash lived in. And you have done what you promised, because you always do what is right.
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
9 “You saw what our ancestors were suffering in Egypt. You heard them cry to you for help when they were at the Red Sea.
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
10 Because you knew that the leaders of Egypt were treating our ancestors very arrogantly, you performed many kinds of miracles that caused the king and his officials and all his people to suffer. As a result, you became famous then, and you are still famous!
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
11 You caused the Red Sea to divide, with the result that your people walked through it on the ground without [getting their feet] wet. [After they were all safely on the other side, ] you [caused the water to come back again], and you hurled into the deep water the [soldiers of the Egyptian army] that were pursuing our ancestors. Their soldiers sank into the deep sea like stones!
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
12 During each day you led our ancestors with a bright cloud that resembled a huge pillar, and each night you led them by a flaming cloud that gave them light to show them where to walk.
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
13 “When our ancestors were at Sinai Mountain, you came down from heaven and spoke to them. You gave them many regulations and instructions that are just and reliable, and you gave them commands and laws that are good.
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
14 You taught them about your holy (Sabbath/day of rest), and you gave many kinds of laws to your servant Moses for him to tell to the people.
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
15 When they were hungry, you gave them manna from the sky; and when they were thirsty, you gave them water from a rock. You commanded them to go and take, from the people who lived there, the land which you had promised to give to them.
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
16 “But our ancestors were very proud and stubborn [IDM], and they did not do what you commanded them to do.
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
17 They refused to heed you, and they forgot about all the miracles that you had performed for them. Instead, they became stubborn [IDM], and they appointed someone to lead them back to Egypt, where they would be slaves again! But you are a God who forgives us and who is kind and merciful [to us]. You do not quickly become angry. You always faithfully love us.
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
18 So, even though their [leaders] made an idol that resembled a calf and insulted you by saying [about the idol], ‘This is our god, who brought you up out of Egypt,’ you did not desert them.
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
19 “Because you always act mercifully, you did not abandon them when they were in the desert. The bright cloud which was like a huge pillar continued to lead them during the daytime, and the fiery cloud showed them where to walk at night.
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
20 You sent your good Spirit to instruct them. You continued to provide water when they were thirsty.
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
21 For 40 years you took care of them in the desert. During all that time, they had everything [that they needed]. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell up [even though they were continually walking].
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
22 “You helped our ancestors to defeat armies of great kings who ruled many people-groups. By doing that, you enabled our ancestors to (occupy/live in) even the most distant places in this land. They occupied the land over which King Sihon ruled from Heshbon [city] and the land over which King Og ruled in [the] Bashan [area].
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
23 You caused our ancestors’ descendants to become as numerous as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into this land, the land that you told their fathers to enter and occupy.
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
24 Their sons went in and took the land [from the people that lived there]. You enabled them to defeat the descendants of Canaan who lived here in this land. You enabled them to conquer the descendants of Canaan and their kings and the people whom they ruled. You enabled our ancestors to do to those people whatever they wanted to do.
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
25 Our ancestors captured cities that had walls around them, and they took possession of fertile land. They took possession of houses that were full of good things, where there were wells that were already dug. They took possession of many vineyards and groves of olive trees and fruit trees. They ate all that they wanted to and became fat. They were delighted in all these good things that you gave to them.
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
26 “But they disobeyed you and rebelled against you. They (turned their backs on/rejected) your laws. They killed the prophets who warned them that they should return to you. They badly insulted you.
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
27 So you allowed their enemies to defeat them. But when their enemies caused them to suffer, they called out to you. You heard them from heaven, and because you are very merciful, you sent them people to help them, and those leaders rescued them from their enemies.
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
28 “But after there was a time of peace again, our ancestors again did things that displeased you. So again you allowed their enemies to conquer them. But whenever they cried out to you again [to help them], you heard them from heaven, and because you act mercifully, you rescued them many times.
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
29 “You warned them that they should again [obey] your laws, but they became proud and stubborn, and they disobeyed your commands. They sinned by disobeying what you commanded them to do, the things that would enable them to live a good long life [if they obeyed them]. They stubbornly refused [IDM] to listen to you and continued sinning.
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
30 You were patient with them for many years. You warned them trough [the messages] your Spirit gave to the prophets. But they did not (heed/pay attention to) those messages. So again you allowed [the armies of] other nations to defeat them.
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
31 But because you act very mercifully, you did not get rid of them completely or abandon them [forever]. You are a very gracious/kind and merciful God!
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
32 “Our God, you are great! You are mighty! You are awesome! You faithfully love us as [you promised in] your agreement with us that you would do! But now we are experiencing great difficulties/hardships. Great troubles have come to us, to our kings, to our [other] leaders, to our priests, and to our prophets. We have been experiencing these troubles since [the armies of] the kings of Assyria [conquered us], and we are still experiencing them. We ask that you sincerely think about [LIT] all these things.
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
33 [We know that] you acted justly each time that you punished us. We have sinned greatly, but you have treated us fairly.
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
34 Our kings and other leaders and our priests and our other ancestors did not obey your laws. They did not heed your commands or the warnings that you gave to them.
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
35 Even when they had their own kings, and they enjoyed the good things that you did for them in this large and fertile land that you gave to them, they did not serve you. They refused to quit doing what was evil.
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
36 “So now we are [like] slaves here in this land that you gave to our ancestors, the land that you gave to them in order that they could enjoy all the good things that grow here.
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
37 Because we have sinned, [we cannot eat the things that grow here]. The kings that now rule over us are enjoying the things that grow here. They rule us and [take] our cattle. We have to serve them and do the things that please them. We are experiencing great misery/distress.
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
38 “However, we [Israeli] people now are making an agreement/promise [to obey you], and we are writing this agreement/promise [on a scroll]. We will write on it the names of our leaders and the names of the Levites and the names of the priests, and then we will seal it.”
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
