Nehemiah 9
1 Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
その月の二十四日にイスラエルの子孫あつまりて断食し麻布を纒ひ土を蒙れり
2 The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
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組の愆とを殲悔し
3 They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed and worshiped Yahweh their God.
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 Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.
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、ケナニ等レビ人の台に立ち大聲を挙てその神ヱホバに呼はれり
5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
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 are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships 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 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of 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 found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words, for you are righteous.
その心の汝の前に忠信なるを観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 the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by 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聴いれ
10 and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all his servants, and against all the people of his land, for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.
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 divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
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 Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
また昼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 “You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
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 and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
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 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give 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挙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 they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
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賊命に聴したがはず
17 and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
聴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隷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恵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 Yes, when they had made themselves a molded calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies,
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 yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
汝は重々も憐憫を垂て彼らを荒野に棄たまはず昼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 gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
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 “Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.
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 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
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 also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers that they should go in to possess it.
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 “So the children went in and possessed the land; and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased.
則ちその子孫入てこの地を獲たり期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 They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
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恵に沾ひて樂みたりしが
26 “Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
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 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.
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聴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 they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,
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聴き憐憫を加へてしばしば彼らを助け
29 and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
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聴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聴ことをせざりき
30 Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
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 “Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious 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恵あり憐憫ある神にましませばなり
32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
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恵を施こしたまふ御神ねがはくはアツ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観たまはざれ
33 However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
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 Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against 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聴從はざりき
35 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They didn’t turn from their wicked works.
即ち彼らは己の國に居り汝の賜ふ大なる恩恵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 “Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.
鳴呼われらは今日奴隷たり汝が我らの先祖に與へてその中の産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隷となりをるこそはかなけれ
37 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great 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産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 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
38 Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”
