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)
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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。
1But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, 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。」
2He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since 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。」
3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would 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“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder 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。」
5Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted 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。
6So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height, 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。
7But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry;
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。
8and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.
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。
9But we made our prayer to 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。」
10Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading and there is much rubble, 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。」
11Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill 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。
12When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”
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。
13Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups 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。」
14I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, 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。
15When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to 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。
16From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, 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。
17Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did 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。
18Among the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet 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。
19I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread out, and we are separated on the wall, far from one 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。」
20Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to 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。
21So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until 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。」
22Likewise at the same time I said to the people, “Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor 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。
23So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.
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