¹わが民よ、わが教を聞き、わが口の言葉に耳を傾けよ。

¹Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

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。

²I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

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。

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

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。

⁴We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

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。

⁵For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known 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、

⁶that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

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。

⁷that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

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。

⁸and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

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。

⁹The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

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、

¹⁰They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

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。

¹¹They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.

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。

¹²He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

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。

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

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。

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

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、

¹⁵He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

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。

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

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、

¹⁷Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

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。

¹⁸They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

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。

¹⁹Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

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。

²⁰Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?”

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。

²¹Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

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。

²²because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.

²³しかし神は上なる大空に命じて天の戸を開き、

²³Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

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。

²⁴He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

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。

²⁵Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

²⁶神は天に東風を吹かせ、み力をもって南風を導かれた。

²⁶He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

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、

²⁷He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

²⁸その宿営のなか、そのすまいのまわりに落された。

²⁸He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.

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。

²⁹So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

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、

³⁰They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

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。

³¹when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel.

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。

³²For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

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。

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

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。

³⁴When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

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。

³⁵They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

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。

³⁶But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

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。

³⁷For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

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。

³⁸But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

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。

³⁹He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

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。

⁴⁰How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

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。

⁴¹They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

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。

⁴²They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

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、

⁴³how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

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。

⁴⁴he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

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。

⁴⁵He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

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。

⁴⁶He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

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。

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

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。

⁴⁸He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

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。

⁴⁹He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

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。

⁵⁰He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

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。

⁵¹and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

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、

⁵²But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

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。

⁵³He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

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。

⁵⁴He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

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。

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

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、

⁵⁶Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies;

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。

⁵⁷but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

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。

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

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。

⁵⁹When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

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、

⁶⁰So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

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。

⁶¹and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.

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。

⁶²He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

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、

⁶³Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

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。

⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.

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、

⁶⁵Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

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。

⁶⁶He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

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、

⁶⁷Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,

⁶⁸ユダの部族を選び、神の愛するシオンの山を選ばれた。

⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

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。

⁶⁹He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

⁷⁰神はそのしもべダビデを選んで、羊のおりから取り、

⁷⁰He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

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。

⁷¹from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

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。

⁷²So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.