ネヘミヤ記 4
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)Translation
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1サンバラテは、私たちが城壁を建てていると聞くと怒り、激しく憤って、ユダヤ人を嘲笑した。
1(3-33) But it came to pass that, when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
2彼は仲間とサマリアの軍隊の前で言った。「あの弱々しいユダヤ人たちは何をしているのか。自分たちで防備を整えるつもりか。いけにえをささげるつもりか。一日で仕上げるつもりか。焼けた瓦礫の山から石を生き返らせるつもりか。」
2(3-34) And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said: 'What do these feeble Jews? will they restore at will? will they sacrifice? will they make an end this day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?'
3アモン人トビヤが彼のそばにいて言った。「彼らが建てているものは、狐が上っても、その石垣を崩してしまうだろう。」
3(3-35) Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said: 'Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.'
4「私たちの神よ、耳を傾けてください。私たちは侮られています。彼らのそしりを彼ら自身の頭に返し、捕囚の地で略奪に渡してください。
4(3-36) Hear, O our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up to spoiling in a land of captivity;
5彼らの咎を覆わず、その罪を御前からぬぐい去らないでください。彼らは建てる者たちを侮辱したのです。」
5(3-37) and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before Thee; for they have vexed Thee before the builders.
6こうして私たちは城壁を建てた。城壁全体は高さの半分までつながった。民には働く意欲があったからである。
6(3-38) So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof; for the people had a mind to work.
7しかし、サンバラテ、トビヤ、アラビア人、アモン人、アシュドド人たちは、エルサレムの城壁の修復が進み、破れ口がふさがれ始めたと聞いて、非常に怒った。
7(4-1) But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth;
8そして彼らは皆、エルサレムに来て戦い、私たちの間に混乱を引き起こそうと共謀した。
8(4-2) and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
9しかし私たちは神に祈り、彼らに備えて昼も夜も見張りを立てた。
9(4-3) But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
10ユダの人々は言った。「荷を担う者の力は衰え、瓦礫は多い。これでは城壁を建て続けられない。」
10(4-4) And Judah said: 'The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.'
11敵は言った。「彼らが気づきも見もしないうちに、その中へ入り込み、彼らを殺して工事をやめさせよう。」
11(4-5) And our adversaries said: 'They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.'
12敵の近くに住むユダヤ人たちが来て、あらゆる方角から十回も、「どこへ向かっても、彼らは私たちを襲って来ます」と告げた。
12(4-6) And it came to pass that, when the Jews that dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times: 'Ye must return unto us from all places.'
13そこで私は、城壁の後ろの低い場所、開けた所に、民を家族ごとに配置し、剣、槍、弓を持たせた。
13(4-7) Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
14私は見渡し、立ち上がって、貴族、役人、その他の民に言った。「彼らを恐れてはならない。偉大で恐るべき主を覚え、兄弟、息子、娘、妻、家のために戦え。」
14(4-8) And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people: 'Be not ye afraid of them; remember the Lord, who is great and awful, and fight for your brethren, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses.'
15私たちの敵は、それが私たちに知られたこと、そして神が彼らの企てを無に帰されたことを聞いた。こうして私たちは皆、城壁に戻り、それぞれ自分の仕事についた。
15(4-9) And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
16そのとき以来、私のしもべの半数は工事をし、半数は槍、盾、弓、鎧を手にした。指揮官たちはユダの民全体の背後に控えた。
16(4-10) And it came to pass from that time forth, that half of my servants wrought in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
17城壁を建てる者も、荷を担って運ぶ者も、片手で仕事をし、もう一方の手に武器を持った。
17(4-11) They that builded the wall and they that bore burdens laded themselves, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other held his weapon;
18建てる者たちは皆、腰に剣を帯びて建てた。角笛を吹き鳴らす者は私のそばにいた。
18(4-12) and the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the horn was by me.
19私は貴族、役人、その他の民に言った。「工事は大きく、広い範囲に及び、私たちは城壁の上で互いに遠く離れている。
19(4-13) And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people: 'The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another;
20どこであれ角笛の音を聞いたなら、そこへ、私たちのもとへ集まれ。私たちの神が私たちのために戦ってくださる。」
20(4-14) in what place soever ye hear the sound of the horn, resort ye thither unto us; our God will fight for us.'
21こうして私たちは工事を続け、民の半数は夜明けから星が現れるまで槍を手にした。
21(4-15) So we wrought in the work; and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
22そのころ私は民に言った。「それぞれ、しもべとともにエルサレムの中に泊まれ。夜は私たちの見張りとなり、昼は働くためである。」
22(4-16) Likewise at the same time said I unto the people: 'Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labour in the day.'
23私も、兄弟たちも、しもべたちも、私に従う見張りの者たちも、衣服を脱がなかった。水を汲みに行くときも、皆が武器を携えた。
23(4-17) So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard that followed me, none of us put off our clothes, every one that went to the water had his weapon.
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