Nehemiah 9
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1Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
1この月の第二十四日に、イスラエルの子らは断食し、荒布をまとい、土をかぶって集まった。
2The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
2イスラエルの子孫はすべての異国人から離れ、立って、自分たちの罪と先祖の咎を告白した。
3They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed and worshiped the LORD their God.
3彼らはその場に立ち、一日の四分の一は彼らの神、主の律法の書を読み、もう四分の一は罪を告白して、彼らの神、主を礼拝した。
4Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to the LORD their God.
4レビ人エシュア、バニ、カドミエル、シェバニヤ、ブニ、シェレブヤ、バニ、ケナニは階段の上に立ち、彼らの神、主に大声で叫び求めた。
5Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
5それから、レビ人エシュア、カドミエル、バニ、ハシャブネヤ、シェレブヤ、ホディヤ、シェバニヤ、ペタフヤが言った。「立ち上がり、とこしえからとこしえまで、あなたがたの神、主をほめたたえよ。栄光に満ちたあなたの御名はほめたたえられよ。その御名は、すべての祝福と賛美を超えて高く上げられている。
6You are the LORD, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
6あなたこそ主、ただあなただけ。あなたは天と、天の天と、そのすべての万象、地とその上にあるすべてのもの、海とその中にあるすべてのものを造られた。あなたはそれらすべてを生かしておられる。天の万象はあなたを礼拝する。
7You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham,
7あなたこそ主なる神。アブラムを選び、カルデヤ人のウルから導き出し、アブラハムという名を与えられた。
8found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words, for you are righteous.
8あなたは彼の心が御前に忠実であるのを認め、カナン人、ヒッタイト人、アモリ人、ペリジ人、エブス人、ギルガシ人の地を彼の子孫に与えるとの契約を結ばれた。そして御言葉を果たされた。あなたは正しい方だからである。
9“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,
9「あなたはエジプトにいた私たちの先祖の苦しみを見、紅海のほとりで彼らの叫びを聞かれた。
10and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all his servants, and against all the people of his land, for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.
10ファラオと、そのすべてのしもべ、その地のすべての民に対して、しるしと不思議を行われた。彼らが先祖たちに対して高慢に振る舞ったことを知っておられたからである。こうして、今日あるとおり、ご自身の名を高くされた。
11You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
11あなたは彼らの前で海を分け、彼らは海の中の乾いた地を渡った。追う者たちを、激しい水に投げ込まれる石のように、深みに投げ込まれた。
12Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
12昼は雲の柱で彼らを導き、夜は火の柱で、進むべき道を照らされた。
13“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
13「あなたはシナイ山に下り、天から彼らに語り、正しい定め、真実な律法、良い掟と戒めを与えられた。
14and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
14聖なる安息日を知らせ、しもべモーセを通して、戒めと掟と律法を命じられた。
15and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
15飢えた彼らに天からパンを与え、渇く彼らのために岩から水を出された。また、与えると誓われた地へ入って所有するよう命じられた。
16“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
16「しかし彼ら、すなわち私たちの先祖は高慢に振る舞い、うなじを固くし、あなたの戒めに聞き従わなかった。
17and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
17彼らは従うことを拒み、その間で行われた不思議を心に留めず、うなじを固くし、反逆して、奴隷の身に戻るための指導者を立てた。しかしあなたは、赦しに富む神、恵み深く、あわれみ深く、怒るのに遅く、慈しみに満ちた方。彼らを見捨てられなかった。
18Yes, when they had made themselves a molded calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies,
18彼らが鋳物の子牛を造り、『これが、あなたをエジプトから導き上った神だ』と言い、ひどい冒瀆を重ねたときでさえ、
19yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
19あなたは豊かなあわれみにより、荒野で彼らを見捨てられなかった。昼は雲の柱が彼らの上を離れず、道を導いた。夜は火の柱が離れず、進むべき道を照らした。
20You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
20彼らを教えるためにあなたの良き御霊を与え、彼らの口からマナを取り去らず、渇きのために水を与えられた。
21“Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.
21「四十年の間、あなたは荒野で彼らを養われた。彼らには何一つ欠けず、衣はすり切れず、足も腫れなかった。
22Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
22さらに、王国と諸国の民を彼らに与え、それぞれの領地として分けられた。彼らはシホンの地、ヘシュボンの王の地と、バシャンの王オグの地を所有した。
23You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers that they should go in to possess it.
23その子らを空の星のように増やし、先祖たちに、入って所有せよと言われた地へ導き入れられた。
24“So the children went in and possessed the land; and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased.
24「子らは入って地を所有した。あなたはその地の住民カナン人を彼らの前に屈服させ、王たちも地の民も彼らの手に渡し、思いのままに扱わせた。
25They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
25彼らは城壁のある町々と肥沃な地を取り、あらゆる良いもので満ちた家、掘られた貯水槽、ぶどう園、オリーブ園、豊かな果樹を所有した。彼らは食べて満ち足り、太り、あなたの大いなる恵みを喜び楽しんだ。
26“Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
26「それでも彼らは不従順となり、あなたに逆らい、律法を背後に投げ捨て、あなたに立ち返らせようと警告した預言者たちを殺し、ひどい冒瀆を重ねた。
27Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.
27そこであなたは、彼らを苦しめる敵の手に渡された。苦難のとき、彼らが叫び求めると、あなたは天から聞き、豊かなあわれみによって救う者たちを与え、敵の手から救い出された。
28But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,
28しかし安息を得ると、彼らは再び御前に悪を行った。それであなたは彼らを敵の手に任せ、敵に支配させられた。それでも彼らが立ち返って叫び求めると、天から聞き、あわれみによって幾度も救い出された。
29and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
29彼らを律法に立ち返らせようと警告された。しかし彼らは高ぶり、戒めに聞き従わず、定めに背いて罪を犯した。人はそれを行うなら、それによって生きるのに。彼らは背を向け、うなじを固くし、聞こうとしなかった。
30Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
30長い年月、あなたは彼らを忍び、預言者たちを通して、あなたの霊によって警告された。それでも彼らは耳を傾けなかった。それゆえ、その地の諸国の民の手に渡された。
31“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
31「それでも、豊かなあわれみによって、彼らを滅ぼし尽くさず、見捨てもされなかった。あなたは恵み深く、あわれみ深い神だからである。
32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
32それゆえ今、私たちの神よ。大いなる、力強い、恐るべき神、契約と慈しみを守られる方よ。アッシリアの王たちの時代から今日まで、私たちと、私たちの王、君、祭司、預言者、先祖、あなたのすべての民に臨んだ苦難を、どうか小さなことと見なさないでください。
33However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
33私たちに臨んだすべてのことにおいて、あなたは正しい。あなたは真実を行われたが、私たちは悪を行った。
34Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.
34私たちの王、君、祭司、先祖は、あなたの律法を守らず、戒めにも、彼らに与えられた警告にも耳を傾けなかった。
35For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They didn’t turn from their wicked works.
35彼らは自分たちの王国にあっても、あなたが与えられた大いなる恵みの中でも、彼らの前に与えられた広く肥沃な地にあっても、あなたに仕えず、悪い行いから立ち返らなかった。
36“Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.
36「見よ、私たちは今日、しもべとなっている。先祖たちに、その実と良いものを食べるために与えられた地で、見よ、私たちはしもべとなっている。
37It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
37この地は、私たちの罪のゆえにあなたが立てられた王たちのために、多くの実りを生み出している。彼らは思いのままに、私たちの体と家畜を支配している。私たちは大きな苦難の中にいる。
38Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”
38このすべてのゆえに、私たちは確かな契約を結んで書き記し、指導者たち、レビ人、祭司たちがこれに印を押す。」
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