¹{An instruction. Of Asaph.} Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

¹わが民よ、わが教を聞き、わが口の言葉に耳を傾けよ。

²I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,

²わたしは口を開いて、たとえを語り、いにしえからの、なぞを語ろう。

³Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:

³これはわれらがさきに聞いて知ったこと、またわれらの先祖たちがわれらに語り伝えたことである。

⁴We will not hide [them] from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.

⁴われらはこれを子孫に隠さず、主の光栄あるみわざと、その力と、主のなされたくすしきみわざとをきたるべき代に告げるであろう。

⁵For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

⁵主はあかしをヤコブのうちにたて、おきてをイスラエルのうちに定めて、その子孫に教うべきことをわれらの先祖たちに命じられた。

⁶That the generation to come might know [them], the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell [them] to their children,

⁶これは次の代に生れる子孫がこれを知り、みずから起って、そのまた子孫にこれを伝え、

⁷And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of ùGod, but observe his commandments;

⁷彼らをして神に望みをおき、神のみわざを忘れず、その戒めを守らせるためである。

⁸And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with ùGod.

⁸またその先祖たちのようにかたくなで、そむく者のやからとなり、その心が定まりなく、その魂が神に忠実でないやからとならないためである。

⁹The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.

⁹エフライムの人々は武装し、弓を携えたが、戦いの日に引き返した。

¹⁰They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

¹⁰彼らは神の契約を守らず、そのおきてにしたがって歩むことを拒み、

¹¹And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.

¹¹神がなされた事と、彼らに示されたくすしきみわざとを忘れた。

¹²In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.

¹²神はエジプトの地と、ゾアンの野でくすしきみわざを彼らの先祖たちの前に行われた。

¹³He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;

¹³神は海を分けて彼らを通らせ、水を立たせて山のようにされた。

¹⁴And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.

¹⁴昼は雲をもって彼らを導き、夜は、よもすがら火の光をもって彼らを導かれた。

¹⁵He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly;

¹⁵神は荒野で岩を裂き、淵から飲むように豊かに彼らに飲ませ、

¹⁶And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

¹⁶また岩から流れを引いて、川のように水を流れさせられた。

¹⁷Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;

¹⁷ところが彼らはなお神にむかって罪をかさね、荒野でいと高き者にそむき、

¹⁸And they tempted ùGod in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;

¹⁸おのが欲のために食物を求めて、その心のうちに神を試みた。

¹⁹And they spoke against God: they said, Is ùGod able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

¹⁹また彼らは神に逆らって言った、「神は荒野に宴を設けることができるだろうか。

²⁰Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?

²⁰見よ、神が岩を打たれると、水はほとばしりいで、流れがあふれた。神はまたパンを与えることができるだろうか。民のために肉を備えることができるだろうか」と。

²¹Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:

²¹それゆえ、主は聞いて憤られた。火はヤコブにむかって燃えあがり、怒りはイスラエルにむかって立ちのぼった。

²²Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;

²²これは彼らが神を信ぜず、その救の力を信用しなかったからである。

²³Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,

²³しかし神は上なる大空に命じて天の戸を開き、

²⁴And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.

²⁴彼らの上にマナを降らせて食べさせ、天の穀物を彼らに与えられた。

²⁵Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.

²⁵人は天使のパンを食べた。神は彼らに食物をおくって飽き足らせられた。

²⁶He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;

²⁶神は天に東風を吹かせ、み力をもって南風を導かれた。

²⁷And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,

²⁷神は彼らの上に肉をちりのように降らせ、翼ある鳥を海の砂のように降らせて、

²⁸And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:

²⁸その宿営のなか、そのすまいのまわりに落された。

²⁹And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.

²⁹こうして彼らは食べて、飽き足ることができた。神が彼らにその望んだものを与えられたからである。

³⁰They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,

³⁰ところが彼らがまだその欲を離れず、食物がなお口の中にあるうちに、

³¹When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

³¹神の怒りが彼らにむかって立ちのぼり、彼らのうちの最も強い者を殺し、イスラエルのうちのえり抜きの者を打ち倒された。

³²For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;

³²すべてこれらの事があったにもかかわらず、彼らはなお罪を犯し、そのくすしきみわざを信じなかった。

³³And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

³³それゆえ神は彼らの日を息のように消えさせ、彼らの年を恐れをもって過ごさせられた。

³⁴When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after ùGod;

³⁴神が彼らを殺されたとき、彼らは神をたずね、悔いて神を熱心に求めた。

³⁵And they remembered that God was their rock, and ùGod, the Most High, their redeemer.

³⁵こうして彼らは、神は彼らの岩、いと高き神は彼らのあがないぬしであることを思い出した。

³⁶But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;

³⁶しかし彼らはその口をもって神にへつらい、その舌をもって神に偽りを言った。

³⁷For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

³⁷彼らの心は神にむかって堅実でなく、神の契約に真実でなかった。

³⁸But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed [them] not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:

³⁸しかし神はあわれみに富まれるので、彼らの不義をゆるして滅ぼさず、しばしばその怒りをおさえて、その憤りをことごとくふり起されなかった。

³⁹And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.

³⁹また神は、彼らがただ肉であって、過ぎ去れば再び帰りこぬ風であることを思い出された。

⁴⁰How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

⁴⁰幾たび彼らは野で神にそむき、荒野で神を悲しませたことであろうか。

⁴¹And they turned again and tempted ùGod, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.

⁴¹彼らはかさねがさね神を試み、イスラエルの聖者を怒らせた。

⁴²They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,

⁴²彼らは神の力をも、神が彼らをあだからあがなわれた日をも思い出さなかった。

⁴³How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;

⁴³神はエジプトでもろもろのしるしをおこない、ゾアンの野でもろもろの奇跡をおこない、

⁴⁴And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;

⁴⁴彼らの川を血に変らせて、その流れを飲むことができないようにされた。

⁴⁵He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;

⁴⁵神ははえの群れを彼らのうちに送って彼らを食わせ、かえるを送って彼らを滅ぼされた。

⁴⁶And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;

⁴⁶また神は彼らの作物を青虫にわたし、彼らの勤労の実をいなごにわたされた。

⁴⁷He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;

⁴⁷神はひょうをもって彼らのぶどうの木を枯らし、霜をもって彼らのいちじく桑の木を枯らされた。

⁴⁸And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.

⁴⁸神は彼らの家畜をひょうにわたし、彼らの群れを燃えるいなずまにわたされた。

⁴⁹He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, -- a mission of angels of woes.

⁴⁹神は彼らの上に激しい怒りと、憤りと、恨みと、悩みと、滅ぼす天使の群れとを放たれた。

⁵⁰He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

⁵⁰神はその怒りのために道を設け、彼らの魂を死から免れさせず、そのいのちを疫病にわたされた。

⁵¹And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.

⁵¹神はエジプトですべてのういごを撃ち、ハムの天幕で彼らの力の初めの子を撃たれた。

⁵²And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

⁵²こうして神はおのれの民を羊のように引き出し、彼らを荒野で羊の群れのように導き、

⁵³And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.

⁵³彼らを安らかに導かれたので彼らは恐れることがなかった。しかし海は彼らの敵をのみつくした。

⁵⁴And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;

⁵⁴神は彼らをその聖地に伴い、その右の手をもって獲たこの山に伴いこられた。

⁵⁵And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

⁵⁵神は彼らの前からもろもろの国民を追い出し、その地を分けて嗣業とし、イスラエルの諸族を彼らの天幕に住まわせられた。

⁵⁶But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,

⁵⁶しかし彼らはいと高き神を試み、これにそむいて、そのもろもろのあかしを守らず、

⁵⁷And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.

⁵⁷そむき去って、先祖たちのように真実を失い、狂った弓のようにねじれた。

⁵⁸And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

⁵⁸彼らは高き所を設けて神を怒らせ、刻んだ像をもって神のねたみを起した。

⁵⁹God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

⁵⁹神は聞いて大いに怒り、イスラエルを全くしりぞけられた。

⁶⁰And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,

⁶⁰神は人々のなかに設けた幕屋なるシロのすまいを捨て、

⁶¹And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;

⁶¹その力をとりことならせ、その栄光をあだの手にわたされた。

⁶²And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:

⁶²神はその民をつるぎにわたし、その嗣業にむかって大いなる怒りをもらされた。

⁶³The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] song;

⁶³火は彼らの若者たちを焼きつくし、彼らのおとめたちは婚姻の歌を失い、

⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

⁶⁴彼らの祭司たちはつるぎによって倒れ、彼らのやもめたちは嘆き悲しむことさえしなかった。

⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;

⁶⁵そのとき主は眠った者のさめたように、勇士が酒によって叫ぶように目をさまして、

⁶⁶And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.

⁶⁶そのあだを撃ち退け、とこしえの恥を彼らに負わせられた。

⁶⁷And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,

⁶⁷神はヨセフの天幕をしりぞけ、エフライムの部族を選ばず、

⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;

⁶⁸ユダの部族を選び、神の愛するシオンの山を選ばれた。

⁶⁹And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.

⁶⁹神はその聖所を高い天のように建て、とこしえに基を定められた地のように建てられた。

⁷⁰And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

⁷⁰神はそのしもべダビデを選んで、羊のおりから取り、

⁷¹From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

⁷¹乳を与える雌羊の番をするところからつれて来て、その民ヤコブ、その嗣業イスラエルの牧者とされた。こうして彼は直き心をもって彼らを牧し、巧みな手をもって彼らを導いた。

⁷²And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.

⁷²こうして彼は直き心をもって彼らを牧し、巧みな手をもって彼らを導いた。