Nehemiah 5
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Simplified)
1About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
1百姓和他们的妻大大呼号，埋怨他们的弟兄 犹大 人。
2Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”
2有的说：「我们和儿女人口众多，要去得粮食度命」；
3Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”
3有的说：「我们典了田地、葡萄园、房屋，要得粮食充饥」；
4Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.
4有的说：「我们已经指着田地、葡萄园，借了钱给王纳税。
5We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
5我们的身体与我们弟兄的身体一样；我们的儿女与他们的儿女一般。现在我们将要使儿女作人的仆婢，我们的女儿已有为婢的；我们并无力拯救，因为我们的田地、葡萄园已经归了别人。」
6When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry,
6我听见他们呼号说这些话，便甚发怒。
7and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them
7我心里筹划，就斥责贵胄和官长说：「你们各人向弟兄取利！」于是我招聚大会攻击他们。
8and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.
8我对他们说：「我们尽力赎回我们弟兄，就是卖与外邦的 犹大 人；你们还要卖弟兄，使我们赎回来吗？」他们就静默不语，无话可答。
9So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?
9我又说：「你们所行的不善！你们行事不当敬畏我们的 神吗？不然，难免我们的仇敌外邦人毁谤我们。
10I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.
10我和我的弟兄与仆人也将银钱粮食借给百姓；我们大家都当免去利息。
11Please restore to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, along with the percentage of the money, grain, new wine, and oil that you have been assessing them.”
11如今我劝你们将他们的田地、葡萄园、橄榄园、房屋，并向他们所取的银钱、粮食、新酒，和油，百分之一的利息都归还他们。」
12“We will restore it,” they replied, “and will require nothing more from them. We will do as you say.” So I summoned the priests and required of the nobles and officials an oath that they would do what they had promised.
12众人说：「我们必归还，不再向他们索要，必照你的话行。」我就召了祭司来，叫众人起誓，必照着所应许的而行。
13I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake out of His house and possession every man who does not keep this promise. May such a man be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.
13我也抖着胸前的衣襟，说：「凡不成就这应许的，愿 神照样抖他离开家产和他劳碌得来的，直到抖空了。」会众都说：「阿们！」又赞美耶和华。百姓就照着所应许的去行。
14Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.
14自从我奉派作 犹大 地的省长，就是从 亚达薛西 王二十年直到三十二年，共十二年之久，我与我弟兄都没有吃省长的俸禄。
15The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.
15在我以前的省长加重百姓的担子， 每日 索要粮食和酒，并银子四十舍客勒，就是他们的仆人也辖制百姓；但我因敬畏 神不这样行。
16Instead, I devoted myself to the construction of the wall, and all my servants were gathered there for the work; we did not acquire any land.
16并且我恒心修造城墙，并没有置买田地；我的仆人也都聚集在那里做工。
17There were 150 Jews and officials at my table, besides the guests from the surrounding nations.
17除了从四围外邦中来的 犹大 人以外，有 犹大 平民和官长一百五十人在我席上吃饭。
18Each day one ox, six choice sheep, and some fowl were prepared for me, and once every ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine was provided. But I did not demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the people was so heavy.
18每日预备一只公牛，六只肥羊，又预备些飞禽；每十日一次，多预备各样的酒。虽然如此，我并不要省长的俸禄，因为百姓服役甚重。
19Remember me favorably, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.
19我的 神啊，求你记念我为这百姓所行的一切事，施恩与我。
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