ネヘミヤ 記 9

1 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

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.

2 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

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.

3 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

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.

4 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

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.

5 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

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.

6 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

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.

7 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

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.

8 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

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.

9 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

And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt. And you heard their outcry beside the Red Sea.

10 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

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.

11 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

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.

12 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

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.

13 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

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.

14 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

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.

15 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

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.

16 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

Yet truly, they and our fathers acted arrogantly, and they hardened their necks, and they did not listen to your commandments.

17 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

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.

18 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

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,

19 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

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.

20 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

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.

21 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

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.

22 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

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.

23 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

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.

24 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

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.

25 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

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.

26 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

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.

27 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

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.

28 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

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.

29 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

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.

30 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

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.

31 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

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.

32 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

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.

33 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

For you are just, concerning all things that have overwhelmed us. For you have done truth, but we have acted impiously.

34 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

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.

35 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

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.

36 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

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.

37 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

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.

38 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

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.”