エズラ記 3
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)Translation
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1第七の月になり、イスラエルの子らが町々にいたとき、民は一人の人のようにエルサレムに集まった。
1And now the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities: and the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
2そのとき、エホツァダクの子エシュアとその兄弟である祭司たち、シェアルティエルの子ゼルバベルとその同族の者たちが立ち上がり、神の人モーセの律法に記されているとおり、その上で全焼のいけにえをささげるため、イスラエルの神の祭壇を築いた。
2And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, and his brethren the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they built the altar of the God of Israel that they might offer holocausts upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the mall of God.
3周囲の国々の民を恐れながらも、彼らは祭壇を元の場所に据え、その上で主に朝夕の全焼のいけにえをささげた。
3And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while the people of the lands round about put them in fear, and they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord morning and evening.
4彼らは記されているとおり仮庵の祭りを祝い、規定に従い、その日に必要な数だけ、日ごとの全焼のいけにえをささげた。
4And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the holocaust every day orderly according to the commandment, the duty of the day in its day.
5その後、常供の全焼のいけにえ、新月のささげ物、主の聖別されたすべての例祭のささげ物、また主に自発のささげ物を進んでささげるすべての者のささげ物をささげた。
5And afterwards the continual holocaust, both on the new moons, and on all the solemnities of the Lord, that were consecrated, and on all in which a free-will offering was made to the Lord.
6彼らは第七の月の第一の日から主に全焼のいけにえをささげ始めたが、主の神殿の土台はまだ据えられていなかった。
6From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer holocausts to the Lord: but the temple of God was not yet founded.
7彼らは石工と大工に代金を支払った。また、ペルシア王クロスから得た許可に従い、レバノンの香柏を海路ヨッパまで運ばせるため、シドン人とツロ人に食べ物、飲み物、油を与えた。
7And they gave money to hewers of stones and to masons: and meat and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which Cyrus king of the Persians had given them.
8エルサレムにある神の家に来てから二年目の第二の月に、シェアルティエルの子ゼルバベル、エホツァダクの子エシュア、そのほかの兄弟である祭司たちとレビ人たち、また捕囚からエルサレムへ帰って来たすべての者が工事を始めた。そして主の家の工事を監督させるため、二十歳以上のレビ人を任命した。
8And in the second year of their coming to the temple of God in Jerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests, and the Levites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began, and they appointed Levites from twenty years old and upward, to hasten forward the work of the Lord.
9エシュアとその子らや兄弟たち、カドミエルとその子ら、すなわちユダの子らは一つになって立ち、神の家で働く者たちを監督した。ヘナダデの子らと、その子らや兄弟であるレビ人たちも、ともに監督に当たった。
9Then Josue and his sons and his brethren, Cedmihel, and his sons, and the children of Juda, as one man, stood to hasten them that did the work in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and their brethren the Levites.
10建築者たちが主の神殿の土台を据えたとき、祭司たちは祭服を着てラッパを持ち、アサフの子らであるレビ人はシンバルを持って立った。イスラエル王ダビデの定めに従って主を賛美するためであった。
10And when the masons laid the foundations of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their ornaments with trumpets: and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise God by the hands of David king of Israel.
11彼らは主を賛美し、感謝しながら互いに歌い交わした。「主はいつくしみ深い。その慈しみはイスラエルに向かってとこしえまで続く。」主の家の土台が据えられたので、民は皆、主を賛美して大きな喜びの声を上げた。
11And they sung together hymns, and praise to the Lord: because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord, because the foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid.
12しかし、祭司、レビ人、父祖の家の長たちのうち、以前の神殿を見たことのある多くの老人は、この神殿の土台が目の前で据えられるのを見て声を上げて泣いた。一方、多くの者は喜びの叫びを上げた。
12But many of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the fathers and the ancients that had seen the former temple; when they had the foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept with a loud voice: and many shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.
13そのため、喜びの叫び声と民の泣き声とを聞き分けることができなかった。民が上げた大きな声は、遠くまで響いた。
13So that one could not distinguish the voice of the shout of joy, from the noise of the weeping of the people: for one with another the people shouted with a loud shout, and the voice was heard afar off.
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