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- サンバラト と トビヤ , それに アラブ 人, アンモン 人, アシュドド の 市民は, エルサレム の 城壁の 再建が 進み, 破損の 修復が 始まったと 聞いて, 大いに 怒った.
- 彼らは 皆で 共謀して エルサレム に 攻め 上り, 混亂に 陷れようとした.
- わたしたちはわたしたちの 神に 祈り, ¿夜彼らに 對し, 彼らから 身を 守るために 警戒した.
- しかし, ユダ もこう 言うのだった. 「もっこを 擔ぐ 力は 弱り /土くれの 山はまだ 大きい. 城壁の 再建など /わたしたちにはできません. 」
- わたしたちの 敵はこう 言っていた. 「氣づかれず, 見つからないように 侵入し, 彼らを 打ち 殺して, 工事をやめさせよう. 」
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- 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.
- And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
- Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
- Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
- And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
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- 彼らの 近くに 住む ユダ の 人¿がやって 來て, 十度もわたしたちに, 「あなたたちが 戾ると, あらゆるところからわたしたちは 攻められます 」と 言った.
- そこでわたしは 城壁外の 低い 所, むき 出しになった 所に, 各家族の 戰鬪員を, 劍と 槍と 弓を 持たせて 配置した.
- わたしは 見回して 立ち, 貴族や 役人やその 他の 戰鬪員に 言った. 「敵を 恐れるな. 偉大にして 畏るべき 主の 御名を 唱えて, 兄弟のため, 息子のため, 娘のため, 妻のため, 家のために 戰え. 」
- わたしたちが 氣づき, 神がその 計略を 破られたことを 敵が 知ったので, わたしたちは 皆, 城壁に 戾り, それぞれ 自分の 作業に 就いた.
- その 日からわたしの 部下たちは, 半分が 作業に 從事し, 他の 半分が 槍と 盾, 弓と 鎧を 身に 着け, 將校たちが ユダ の 家全體の 背後に 控えた.
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- So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
- But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
- And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
- Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
- 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.
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- 城壁を 築く 者, もっこを 擔いで 運ぶ 者は, 一方の 手で 作業をし, もう 一方の 手には 投げ 槍を 取った.
- 建築作業をする 者は, 各自腰に 劍を 帶びて 作業した. わたしはそばに 角笛を 吹く 者をつけた.
- わたしは 貴族と 役人と 他の 戰鬪員に 言った. 「仕事が 多く, 範圍は 廣い. わたしたちは 互いに 遠く 離れて 城壁の 上に 散らばっている.
- 角笛の 音を 聞いたら, わたしたちのもとに 集まれ. わたしたちの 神はわたしたちのために 戰ってくださる. 」
- 夜が 明けてから 星が 現れるころまでわたしたちは 作業に 就き, 部下の 半分は 槍を 手にしていた.
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- And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
- And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.
- Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
- 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, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
- 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.
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- このころわたしは 戰鬪員に 言った. 「各自, 自分の 部下と 共に エルサレム の 城壁內で 夜を 過ごしなさい. 夜は 警備に 當たり, ¿に 仕事をしよう. 」
- わたしも, 兄弟も, 部下の 者も, わたしに 從う 警備の 者も, わたしたちはだれも, 服を 脫がずにいて, 各自投げ 槍を 右の 手にしていた.
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- And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
- They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
- For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
- 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.
- In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
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- So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
- 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 labour on the day.
- So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
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