尼希米記 2
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1亞達薛西 王二十年尼散月，在王面前擺酒，我拿起酒來奉給王。我素來在王面前沒有愁容。
1And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king: that wine was before him, and I took up the wine, and gave it to the king: and I was as one languishing away before his face.
2王對我說：「你既沒有病，為甚麼面帶愁容呢？這不是別的，必是你心中愁煩。」於是我甚懼怕。
2And the king said to me: Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou dost not appear to be sick? this is not without cause, but some evil, I know not what, is in thy heart. And I was seized with an exceeding great fear:
3我對王說：「願王萬歲！我列祖墳墓所在的那城荒涼，城門被火焚燒，我豈能面無愁容嗎？」
3And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my countenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire?
4王問我說：「你要求甚麼？」於是我 默 禱天上的上帝。
4Then the king said to me: For what dost thou make request? And I prayed to the God of heaven,
5我對王說：「僕人若在王眼前蒙恩，王若喜歡，求王差遣我往 猶大 ，到我列祖墳墓所在的那城去，我好重新建造。」
5And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, and if thy servant hath found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldst send me into Judea to the city of the sepulchre of my father, and I will build it.
6那時王后坐在王的旁邊。王問我說：「你去要多少日子？幾時回來？」我就定了日期。於是王喜歡差遣我去。
6And the king said to me, and the queen that sat by him: For how long shall thy journey be, and when wilt thou return? And it pleased the king, and he sent me: and I fixed him a time.
7我又對王說：「王若喜歡，求王賜我詔書，通知大 河西 的省長准我經過，直到 猶大 ；
7And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, let him give me letters to the governors of the country beyond the river, that they convey me over, till I come into Judea:
8又賜詔書，通知管理王園林的 亞薩 ，使他給我木料，做屬殿營樓之門的橫樑和城牆，與我自己房屋使用的。」王就允准我，因我上帝施恩的手幫助我。
8And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, to give me timber that I may cover the gates of the tower of the house, and the walls of the city, and the house that I shall enter into. And the king gave me according to the good hand of my God with me.
9王派了軍長和馬兵護送我。我到了 河西 的省長那裏，將王的詔書交給他們。
9And I came to the governors of the country beyond the river, and gave them the king’s letters. And the king had sent with me captains of soldiers, and horsemen.
10和倫 人 參巴拉 ，並為奴的 亞捫 人 多比雅 ，聽見有人來為 以色列 人求好處，就甚惱怒。
10And Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, heard it, and it grieved them exceedingly, that a man was come, who sought the prosperity of the children of Israel.
11我到了 耶路撒冷 ，在那裏住了三日。
11And I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
12我夜間起來，有幾個人也一同起來；但上帝使我心裏要為 耶路撒冷 做甚麼事，我並沒有告訴人。除了我騎的牲口以外，也沒有別的牲口在我那裏。
12And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me, and I told not any man what God had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem, and there was no beast with me, but the beast that I rode upon.
13當夜我出了 谷門 ，往 野狗井 去，到了 糞廠門 ，察看 耶路撒冷 的城牆，見城牆拆毀，城門被火焚燒。
13And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and before the dragon fountain, and to the dung gate, and I viewed the wall of Jerusalem which was broken down, and the gates thereof which were consumed with fire.
14我又往前，到了 泉門 和 王池 ，但所騎的牲口沒有地方過去。
14And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s aqueduct, and there was no place for the beast on which I rode to pass.
15於是夜間沿溪而上，察看城牆，又轉身進入 谷門 ，就回來了。
15And I went up in the night by the torrent, and viewed the wall, and going back I came to the gate of the valley, and returned.
16我往哪裏去，我做甚麼事，官長都不知道。我還沒有告訴 猶大 平民、祭司、貴冑、官長，和其餘做工的人。
16But the magistrates knew not whither I went, or what I did: neither had I as yet told any thing to the Jews, or to the priests, or to the nobles, or to the magistrates, or to the rest that did the work.
17以後，我對他們說：「我們所遭的難， 耶路撒冷 怎樣荒涼，城門被火焚燒，你們都看見了。來吧，我們重建 耶路撒冷 的城牆，免得再受凌辱！」
17Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no longer a reproach.
18我告訴他們我上帝施恩的手怎樣幫助我，並王對我所說的話。他們就說：「我們起來建造吧！」於是他們奮勇做這善工。
18And I shewed them how the hand of my God was good with me, and the king’s words, which he had spoken to me, and I said: Let us rise up, and build. And their hands were strengthened in good.
19但 和倫 人 參巴拉 ，並為奴的 亞捫 人 多比雅 和 阿拉伯 人 基善 聽見就嗤笑我們，藐視我們，說：「你們做甚麼呢？要背叛王嗎？」
19But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, and Gossem the Arabian heard of it, and they scoffed at us, and despised us, and said: What is this thing that you do? are you going to rebel against the king?
20我回答他們說：「天上的上帝必使我們亨通。我們作他僕人的，要起來建造；你們卻在 耶路撒冷 無分、無權、無紀念。」
20And I answered them, and said to them: The God of heaven he helpeth us, and we are his servants: let us rise up and build: but you have no part, nor justice, nor remembrance in Jerusalem.
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