詩篇 78
1 わが民よわが敎訓をきき、わが口のことばになんぢらの耳をかたぶけよ
[A contemplation by Asaph.] Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 われ口をひらきて譬喩をまうけ いにしへの玄幽なる語をかたりいでん
I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings since the beginning of the world,
3 是われらが曩にききしところ知しところ又われらが列祖のかたりつたへし所なり
which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4 われら之をその子孫にかくさずヱホバのもろもろの頌美と能力とそのなしたまへる奇しき事跡とをきたらんとする世につげん
We will not hide them from their descendants, telling to the generation to come the praises of YHWH, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
5 そはヱホバ證詞をヤコブのうちにたて律法をイスラエルのうちに定めてその子孫にしらすべきことをわれらの列祖におほせたまひたればなり
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
6 これ來らんとする代のちに生るる子孫がこれを知みづから起りてそのまた子孫につたへ
that the generation to come might know it, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell their children,
7 かれらをして神によりたのみ神のみわざを忘れずその誡命をまもらしめん爲なり
that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,
8 またその列祖のごとく頑固にしてそむくものの類となり そのこころ修まらず そのたましひ神に忠ならざる類とならざらん爲なり
and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
9 エフライムのこらは武具ととのへ弓をたづさへしに戰ひの日にうしろをそむけたり
The people of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10 かれら神のちかひをまもらず そのおきてを履ことをいなみ
They did not keep God's covenant, and refused to walk by his Law.
11 ヱホバのなしたまへることとかれらに示したまへる奇しき事跡とをわすれたり
They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.
12 神はエジプトの國にてゾアンの野にて妙なる事をかれらの列祖のまへになしたまへり
He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 すなはち海をさきてかれらを過ぎしめ水をつみて堆かくしたまへり
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
14 ひるは雲をもてかれらをみちびき夜はよもすがら火の光をもてこれを導きたまへり
In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
15 神はあれのにて磐をさき大なる淵より汲がごとくにかれらに飮しめ
He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
16 また磐より流をひきて河のごとくに水をながれしめたまへり
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 然るにかれら尚たえまなく罪ををかして神にさからひ荒野にて至上者にそむき
Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
18 またおのが慾のために食をもとめてその心のうちに神をこころみたり
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
19 然のみならずかれらは神にさからひていへり 神は荒野にて筵をまうけたまふを得んや
Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 みよ神いはを撃たまへば水ほどばしりいで流あぶれたり 糧をもあたへたまふを得んや神はその民のために肉をそなへたまはんやと
Look, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"
21 この故にヱホバこれを聞ていきどほりたまひき 火はヤコブにむかひてもえあがり怒はイスラエルにむかひて立騰れり
Therefore YHWH heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
22 こはかれら神を信ぜずその救にたのまざりし故なり
because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in his salvation.
23 されどなほ神はうへなる雲に命じて天の戸をひらき
Yet he commanded the clouds above, and opened the doors of heaven.
24 彼等のうへにマナをふらせて食はしめ天の穀物をあたへたまへり
He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them bread from heaven.
25 人みな勇士の糧をくらへり 神はかれらに食物をおくりて飽足らしめたまふ
Man ate the bread of the mighty ones. He sent them food to the full.
26 神は天に東風をふかせ大能もて南の風をみちびきたまへり
He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
27 神はかれらのうへに塵のごとく肉をふらせ海の沙のごとく翼ある鳥をふらせて
He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.
28 その營のなかその住所のまはりに落したまへり
He let it fall in the midst of his camp, all around his tent.
29 斯てかれらは食ひて飽たりぬ 神はこれにその欲みしものを與へたまへり
So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
30 かれらが未だその慾をはなれず食物のなほ口のうちにあるほどに
They did not turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
31 神のいかり旣にかれらに對ひてたちのぼり彼等のうちにて最もこえたる者をころしイスラエルのわかき男をうちたふしたまへり
when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.
32 これらの事ありしかど彼等はなほ罪ををかしてその奇しきみわざを信ぜざりしかば
For all this they still sinned, and did not believe in his wondrous works.
33 神はかれらの日を空しくすぐさせ その年をおそれつつ過させたまへり
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
34 神かれらを殺したまへる時かれら神をたづね歸りきたりて懇ろに神をもとめたり
When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
35 かくて神はおのれの磐いとたかき神はおのれの贖主なることをおもひいでたり
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
36 然はあれど彼等はただその口をもて神にへつらひその舌をもて神にいつはりをいひたりしのみ
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
37 そはかれらのこころは神にむかひて堅からず その契約をまもるに忠信ならざりき
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
38 されど神はあはれみに充たまへばかれらの不義をゆるして亡したまはず屡ばそのみいかりを轉してことごとくは忿恚をふりおこし給はざりき
But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and did not destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
39 又かれがただ肉にして過去ばふたたび歸りこぬ風なるをおもひいで給へり
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
40 かれらは野にて神にそむき荒野にて神をうれへしめしこと幾次ぞや
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert.
41 かれらかへすがへす神をこころみイスラエルの聖者をはづかしめたり
They turned again and tempted God, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.
42 かれらは神の手をも敵より贖ひたまひし日をもおもひいでざりき
They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
43 神はそのもろもろの豫兆をエジプトにあらはしその奇しき事をゾアンの野にあらはし
how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
44 かれらの河を血にかはらせてその流を飮あたはざらしめ
he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
45 また蝿の群をおくりてかれらをくはしめ蛙をおくりてかれらを亡させたまへり
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46 神はかれらの田產を蟊賊にわたし かれらの勤勞を蝗にあたへたまへり
He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
47 神は雹をもてかれらの葡萄の樹をからし霜をもてかれらの桑の樹をからし
He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
48 その家畜をへうにわたしその群をもゆる閃電にわたし
He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 かれらの上にはげしき怒といきどほりと怨恨となやみと禍害のつかひの群とをなげいだし給へり
He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of destroying angels.
50 神はその怒をもらす道をまうけ かれらのたましひを死よりまぬかれしめず そのいのちを疫癘にわたし
He made a path for his anger. He did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
51 エジプトにてすべての初子をうちハムの幕屋にてかれらの力の始をうちたまへり
and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52 されどおのれの民を羊のごとくに引いだし かれらを曠野にてけだものの群のごとくにみちびき
But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 かれらをともなひておそれなく安けからしめ給へり されど海はかれらの仇をおほへり
He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 神はその聖所のさかひ その右の手にて購たまへるこの山に彼らを携へたまへり
He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
55 又かれらの前にてもろもろの國人をおもひいだし準縄をもちゐ その地をわかちて嗣業となし イスラエルの族をかれらの幕屋にすまはせたまへり
He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56 然はあれど彼等はいとたかき神をこころみ之にそむきてそのもろもろの證詞をまもらず
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies;
57 叛きしりぞきてその列祖の如く眞實をうしなひ くるへる弓のごとくひるがへりて逸ゆけり
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58 高處をまうけて神のいきどほりをひき刻める像にて神の嫉妬をおこしたり
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
59 神ききたまひて甚だしくいかり大にイスラエルを憎みたまひしかば
When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
60 人々の間におきたまひし幕屋なるシロのあげばりを棄さり
So that he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among men;
61 その力をとりことならしめ その榮光を敵の手にわたし
and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.
62 その民を劍にあたへ その嗣業にむかひて甚だしく怒りたまへり
He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
63 火はかれらのわかき男をやきつくし かれらの處女はその婚姻の歌によりて譽らるることなく
Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
64 かれらの祭司はつるぎにて仆れ かれらの寡婦は喪のなげきだにせざりき
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.
65 斯るときに主はねぶりし者のさめしごとく勇士の酒によりてさけぶがごとく目さめたまひて
Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
66 その敵をうちしりぞけ とこしへの辱をかれらに負せたまへり
He struck his adversaries backward. He made them a permanent shame.
67 またヨセフの幕屋をいなみエフライムの族をえらばず
Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 ユダの族そのいつくしみたまふシオンの山をえらびたまへり
But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
69 その聖所を山のごとく永遠にさだめたまへる地のごとくに立たまへり
He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
70 またその僕ダビデをえらびて羊の牢のなかよりとり
He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 乳をあたふる牝羊にしたがひゆく勤のうちより携へきたりてその民ヤコブその嗣業イスラエルを牧はせたまへり
from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.
72 斯てダビデはそのこころの完全にしたがひてかれらを牧ひ その手のたくみをもて之をみちびけり
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
