느헤미야 9

1그 달 이십사일에 이스라엘 자손이 다 모여 금식하며 굵은 베를 입고 티끌을 무릅쓰며 2모든 이방 사람과 절교하고 서서 자기의 죄와 열조의 허물을 자복하고 3이 날에 낮 사분지 일은 그 처소에 서서 그 하나님 여호와의 율법책을 낭독하며 그 하나님 여호와께 경배하는데 4레위 사람 예수아와 바니와 갓미엘과 스바냐와 분니와 세레뱌와 바니와 그나니는 대에 올라서서 큰 소리로 그 하나님 여호와께 부르짖고 5또 레위 사람 예수아와 갓미엘과 바니와 하삽느야와 세레뱌와 호다야와 스바냐와 브다히야는 이르기를 너희 무리는 마땅히 일어나 영원부터 영원까지 계신 너희 하나님 여호와를 송축할지어다 주여 주의 영화로운 이름을 송축하올 것은 주의 이름이 존귀하여 모든 송축이나 찬양에서 뛰어남이니이다 6오직 주는 여호와시라 하늘과 하늘들의 하늘과 일월 성신과 땅과 땅 위의 만물과 바다와 그 가운데 모든 것을 지으시고 다 보존하시오니 모든 천군이 주께 경배하나이다 7주는 하나님 여호와시라 옛적에 아브람을 택하시고 갈대아 우르에서 인도하여 내시고 아브라함이라는 이름을 주시고 8그 마음이 주 앞에서 충성됨을 보시고 더불어 언약을 세우사 가나안 족속과 헷 족속과 아모리 족속과 브리스 족속과 여부스 족속과 기르가스 족속의 땅을 그 씨에게 주리라 하시더니 그 말씀대로 이루셨사오니 주는 의로우심이로소이다 9주께서 우리 열조가 애굽에서 고난 받는 것을 감찰하시며 홍해에서 부르짖음을 들으시고 10이적과 기사를 베푸사 바로와 그 모든 신하와 그 나라 온 백성을 치셨사오니 이는 저희가 우리의 열조에게 교만히 행함을 아셨음이라 오늘날과 같이 명예를 얻으셨나이다 11주께서 또 우리 열조 앞에서 바다를 갈라지게 하시사 저희로 바다 가운데를 육지 같이 통과하게 하시고 쫓아오는 자를 돌을 큰 물에 던짐 같이 깊은 물에 던지시고 12낮에는 구름 기둥으로 인도하시고 밤에는 불 기둥으로 그 행할 길을 비취셨사오며 13또 시내 산에 강림하시고 하늘에서부터 저희와 말씀하사 정직한 규례와 진정한 율법과 선한 율례와 계명을 저희에게 주시고 14거룩한 안식일을 저희에게 알리시며 주의 종 모세로 계명과 율례와 율법을 저희에게 명하시고 15저희의 주림을 인하여 하늘에서 양식을 주시며 저희의 목마름을 인하여 반석에서 물을 내시고 또 주께서 옛적에 손을 들어 맹세하시고 주마 하신 땅을 들어가서 차지하라 명하셨사오나 16저희와 우리 열조가 교만히 하고 목을 굳게 하여 주의 명령을 듣지 아니하고 17거역하며 주께서 저희 가운데 행하신 기사를 생각지 아니하고 목을 굳게하며 패역하여 스스로 한 두목을 세우고 종 되었던 땅으로 돌아가고자 하였사오나 오직 주는 사유하시는 하나님이시라 은혜로우시며 긍휼히 여기시며 더디 노하시며 인자가 풍부하시므로 저희를 버리지 아니하셨나이다 18또 저희가 송아지를 부어 만들고 이르기를 이는 곧 너희를 인도하여 애굽에서 나오게 하신 하나님이라 하여 크게 설만하게 하였사오나 19주께서는 연하여 긍휼을 베푸사 저희를 광야에 버리지 아니하시고 낮에는 구름 기둥으로 길을 인도하시며 밤에는 불 기둥으로 그 행할 길을 비취사 떠나게 아니하셨사오며 20또 주의 선한 신을 주사 저희를 가르치시며 주의 만나로 저희 입에 끊어지지 않게 하시고 저희의 목마름을 인하여 물을 주시사 21사십 년 동안을 들에서 기르시되 결핍함이 없게 하시므로 그 옷이 해어지지 아니하였고 발이 부릍지 아니하였사오며 22또 나라들과 족속들을 저희에게 각각 나누어 주시매 저희가 시혼의 땅 곧 헤스본 왕의 땅과 바산 왕 옥의 땅을 차지하였나이다 23주께서 그 자손을 하늘의 별 같이 많게 하시고 전에 그 열조에게 명하사 들어가서 차지하라고 하신 땅으로 인도하여 이르게 하셨으므로 24그 자손이 들어가서 땅을 차지하되 주께서 그 땅 가나안 거민으로 저희 앞에 복종케 하실 때에 가나안 사람과 그 왕들과 본토 여러 족속을 저희 손에 붙여 임의로 행하게 하시매 25저희가 견고한 성들과 기름진 땅을 취하고 모든 아름다운 물건을 채운 집과 파서 만든 우물과 포도원과 감람원과 허다한 과목을 차지하여 배불리 먹어 살찌고 주의 큰 복을 즐겼사오나 26저희가 오히려 순종치 아니하고 주를 거역하며 주의 율법을 등 뒤에 두고 주께로 돌아오기를 권면하는 선지자들을 죽여 크게 설만하게 행하였나이다 27그러므로 주께서 그 대적의 손에 붙이사 곤고를 당하게 하시매 저희가 환난을 당하여 주께 부르짖을 때에 주께서 하늘에서 들으시고 크게 긍휼을 발하사 구원자들을 주어 대적의 손에서 구원하셨거늘 28저희가 평강을 얻은 후에 다시 주 앞에서 악을 행하므로 주께서 그 대적의 손에 버려 두사 대적에게 제어를 받게 하시다가 저희가 돌이켜서 주께 부르짖으매 주께서 하늘에서 들으시고 여러번 긍휼을 발하사 건져내시고 29다시 주의 율법을 복종하게 하시려고 경계하셨으나 저희가 교만히 행하여 사람이 준행하면 그 가운데서 삶을 얻는 주의 계명을 듣지 아니하며 주의 규례를 범하여 고집하는 어깨를 내어밀며 목을 굳게 하여 듣지 아니하였나이다 30그러나 주께서 여러 해 동안 용서하시고 또 선지자로 말미암아 주의 신으로 저희를 경계하시되 저희가 듣지 아니하므로 열방 사람의 손에 붙이시고도 31주의 긍휼이 크시므로 저희를 아주 멸하지 아니하시며 버리지도 아니하셨사오니 주는 은혜로우시고 긍휼히 여기시는 하나님이심이니이다 32우리 하나님이여 광대하시고 능하시고 두려우시며 언약과 인자를 지키시는 하나님이여 우리와 우리 열왕과 방백들과 제사장들과 선지자들과 열조와 주의 모든 백성이 앗수르 열왕의 때로부터 오늘날까지 당한바 환난을 이제 작게 여기시지 마옵소서 33그러나 우리의 당한 모든 일에 주는 공의로우시니 우리는 악을 행하였사오나 주는 진실히 행하셨음이니이다 34우리 열왕과 방백들과 제사장들과 열조가 주의 율법을 지키지 아니하며 주의 명령과 주의 경계하신 말씀을 순종치 아니하고 35저희가 그 나라와 주의 베푸신 큰 복과 자기 앞에 주신 넓고 기름진 땅을 누리면서도 주를 섬기지 아니하며 악행을 그치지 아니한고로 36우리가 오늘날 종이 되었삽는데 곧 주께서 우리 열조에게 주사 그 실과를 먹고 그 아름다운 소산을 누리게 하신 땅에서 종이 되었나이다 37우리의 죄로 인하여 주께서 우리 위에 세우신 이방 열왕이 이 땅의 많은 소산을 얻고 저희가 우리의 몸과 육축을 임의로 관할하오니 우리의 곤난이 심하오며 38우리가 이 모든 일을 인하여 이제 견고한 언약을 세워 기록하고 우리의 방백들과 레위 사람들과 제사장들이 다 인을 치나이다 하였느니라

1Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them. 2The seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. 3They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God. 4Then Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God. 5Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise! 6You are Yahweh, 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. 7You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham, 8and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous. 9“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea, 10and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and 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 this day. 11You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters. 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. 13“You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, 14and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant, 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. 16“But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments, 17and refused to obey, neither were they 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. 18Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies; 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 the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 25They took fortified cities, and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness. 26“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies. 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 hand of their adversaries. 28But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left you them in the hand 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, 29and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, 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. 30Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. 31“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God. 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, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day. 33However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly; 34neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them. 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, neither did they turn from their wicked works. 36“Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it. 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. 38Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”

1Voorts op den vier en twintigsten dag dezer maand verzamelden zich de kinderen Israels met vasten en met zakken, en aarde was op hen. 2En het zaad Israels scheidde zich af van alle vreemden. En zij stonden, en deden belijdenis van hun zonden en hunner vaderen ongerechtigheden. 3Want als zij opgestaan waren op hun standplaats, zo lazen zij in het wetboek des HEEREN, huns Gods, een vierendeel van den dag; en op een ander vierendeel deden zij belijdenis, en aanbaden den HEERE, hun God. 4Jesua nu, en Bani, Kadmiel, Sebanja, Bunni, Serebja, Bani en Chenani, stonden op het hoge gestoelte der Levieten, en riepen met luider stem tot den HEERE, hun God; 5En de Levieten, Jesua, en Kadmiel, Bani, Hasabneja; Serebja, Hodia, Sebanja, Petahja, zeiden: Staat op, looft den HEERE, uw God, van eeuwigheid tot in eeuwigheid; en men love den Naam Uwer heerlijkheid, die verhoogd is boven allen lof en prijs! 6Gij zijt die HEERE alleen, Gij hebt gemaakt den hemel, den hemel der hemelen, en al hun heir, de aarde en al wat daarop is, de zeeen en al wat daarin is, en Gij maakt die allen levend; en het heir der hemelen aanbidt U. 7Gij zijt die HEERE, de God, Die Abram hebt verkoren, en hem uit Ur der Chaldeen uitgevoerd; en Gij hebt zijn naam gesteld Abraham. 8En Gij hebt zijn hart getrouw gevonden voor Uw aangezicht, en hebt een verbond met hem gemaakt, dat Gij zoudt geven het land der Kanaanieten, der Hethieten, der Amorieten, en der Ferezieten, en der Jebusieten, en der Girgasieten, dat Gij het zijn zade zoudt geven; en Gij hebt Uw woorden bevestigd, omdat Gij rechtvaardig zijt. 9En Gij hebt aangezien onzer vaderen ellende in Egypte, en Gij hebt hun geroep gehoord aan de Schelfzee; 10En Gij hebt tekenen en wonderen gedaan aan Farao, en aan al zijn knechten, en aan al het volk zijns lands; want Gij wist, dat zij trotselijk tegen hen handelden; en Gij hebt U een Naam gemaakt, als het is te dezen dage. 11En Gij hebt de zee voor hun aangezicht gekliefd, dat zij in het midden der zee op het droge zijn doorgegaan; en hun vervolgers hebt Gij in de diepten geworpen, als een steen in sterke wateren. 12En Gij hebt ze des daags geleid met een wolkkolom, en des nachts met een vuurkolom, om hen te lichten op den weg, waarin zij zouden wandelen. 13En Gij zijt neergedaald op den berg Sinai, en hebt met hen gesproken uit den hemel; en Gij hebt hun gegeven rechtmatige rechten, en getrouwe wetten, goede inzettingen en geboden. 14En Gij hebt Uw heiligen sabbat bekend gemaakt; en Gij hebt hun geboden, en inzettingen en een wet bevolen, door de hand van Uw knecht Mozes. 15En Gij hebt hun brood uit den hemel gegeven voor hun honger, en hun water uit de steenrots voortgebracht voor hun dorst; en Gij hebt tot hen gezegd, dat zij zouden ingaan om te erven het land, waarover Gij Uw hand ophieft, dat Gij het hun zoudt geven. 16Maar zij en onze vaders hebben trotselijk gehandeld, en zij hebben hun nek verhard, en niet gehoord naar Uw geboden; 17En zij hebben geweigerd te horen, en niet gedacht aan Uw wonderen, die Gij bij hen gedaan hadt, en hebben hun nek verhard, en in hun wederspannigheid een hoofd gesteld, om weder te keren tot hun dienstbaarheid. Doch Gij, een God van vergevingen, genadig en barmhartig, lankmoedig, en groot van weldadigheid, hebt hen evenwel niet verlaten. 18Zelfs, als zij zich een gegoten kalf gemaakt hadden, en gezegd: Dit is uw God, Die u uit Egypte heeft opgevoerd; en grote lasteren gedaan hadden; 19Hebt Gij hen nochtans door Uw grote barmhartigheid niet verlaten in de woestijn; de wolkkolom week niet van hen des daags, om hen op den weg te leiden, noch de vuurkolom des nachts, om hen te lichten, en dat, op den weg, waarin zij zouden wandelen. 20En Gij hebt Uw goeden Geest gegeven om hen te onderwijzen; en Uw Manna hebt Gij niet geweerd van hun mond, en water hebt Gij hun gegeven voor hun dorst. 21Alzo hebt Gij hen veertig jaren onderhouden in de woestijn; zij hebben geen gebrek gehad; hun klederen zijn niet veroud, en hun voeten niet gezwollen. 22Voorts hebt Gij hun koninkrijken en volken gegeven, en hebt hen verdeeld in hoeken. Alzo hebben zij erfelijk bezeten het land van Sihon, te weten, het land des konings van Hesbon, en het land van Og, koning van Basan. 23Gij hebt ook hun kinderen vermenigvuldigd, als de sterren des hemels; en Gij hebt hen gebracht in het land, waarvan Gij tot hun vaderen hadt gezegd, dat zij zouden ingaan om het erfelijk te bezitten. 24Alzo zijn de kinderen daarin gekomen, en hebben dat land erfelijk ingenomen; en Gij hebt de inwoners des lands, de Kanaanieten, voor hun aangezicht ten ondergebracht, en hebt hen in hun hand gegeven, mitsgaders hun koningen en de volken des lands, om daarmede te doen naar hun welgevallen. 25En zij hebben vaste steden en een vet land ingenomen, en erfelijk bezeten, huizen, vol van alle goed, uitgehouwen bornputten, wijngaarden, olijfgaarden en bomen van spijze, in menigte; en zij hebben gegeten, en zijn zat en vet geworden, en hebben in wellust geleefd, door Uw grote goedigheid. 26Maar zij zijn wederspannig geworden, en hebben tegen U gerebelleerd, en Uw wet achter hun rug geworpen, en Uw profeten gedood die tegen hen betuigden, om hen te doen wederkeren tot U; alzo hebben zij grote lasteren gedaan. 27Daarom hebt Gij hen gegeven in de hand hunner benauwers, die hen benauwd hebben; maar als zij in den tijd hunner benauwdheid tot U riepen, hebt Gij van den hemel gehoord, en hun naar Uw grote barmhartigheden verlossers gegeven, die hen uit de hand hunner benauwers verlosten. 28Maar als zij rust hadden, keerden zij weder om kwaad te doen voor Uw aangezicht; zo verliet Gij hen in de hand hunner vijanden, dat zij over hen heersten; als zij zich dan bekeerden, en U aanriepen, zo hebt Gij hen van den hemel gehoord, en hebt hen naar Uw barmhartigheden tot vele tijden uitgerukt. 29En Gij hebt tegen hen betuigd, om hen te doen wederkeren tot Uw wet; maar zij hebben trotselijk gehandeld, en niet gehoord naar Uw geboden, en tegen Uw rechten, tegen dezelve hebben zij gezondigd, door dewelke een mens, die ze doet, leven zal; en zij hebben hun schouder teruggetogen, en hun nek verhard, en niet gehoord. 30Doch Gij vertoogt het vele jaren over hen, en betuigdet tegen hen door Uw Geest, door den dient Uwer profeten, maar zij neigden het oor niet; daarom hebt Gij hen gegeven in de hand van de volken der landen. 31Doch door Uw grote barmhartigheden hebt Gij hen niet vernield, noch hen verlaten; want Gij zijt een genadig en barmhartig God. 32Nu dan, o onze God, Gij grote, Gij machtige, en Gij vreselijke God, Die het verbond en de weldadigheid houdt; laat voor Uw aangezicht niet gering zijn al de moeite, die ons getroffen heeft, onze koningen, onze vorsten, en onze priesteren; en onze profeten, en onze vaderen, en Uw ganse volk, van de dagen der koningen van Assur af tot op dezen dag. 33Doch Gij zijt rechtvaardig, in alles, wat ons overkomen is; want Gij hebt trouwelijk gehandeld, maar wij hebben goddelooslijk gehandeld. 34En onze koningen, onze vorsten, onze priesters en onze vaders hebben Uw wet niet gedaan; en zij hebben niet geluisterd naar Uw geboden, en naar Uw getuigenissen, die Gij tegen hen betuigdet. 35Want zij hebben U niet gediend in hun koninkrijk, en in Uw menigvuldig goed, dat Gij hun gaaft, en in dat wijde en dat vette land, dat Gij voor hun aangezicht gegeven hadt; en zij hebben zich niet bekeerd van hun boze werken. 36Zie, wij zijn heden knechten; ja, het land, dat Gij onzen vaderen gegeven hebt, om de vrucht daarvan, en het goede daarvan te eten, zie, daarin zijn wij knechten. 37En het vermenigvuldigt zijn inkomste voor den koningen, die Gij over ons gesteld hebt, om onzer zonden wil; en zij heersen over onze lichamen en over onze beesten, naar hun welgevallen; alzo zijn wij in grote benauwdheid. 38En in dit alles maken wij een vast verbond en schrijven het; en onze vorsten, onze Levieten en onze priesteren zullen het verzegelen.