尼希米記 2
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
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 Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
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 unto me: 'Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart.' Then I was very sore afraid.
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 unto the king: 'Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed 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 unto me: 'For what dost thou make request?' So 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 unto the king: 'If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may 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 unto me, the queen also sitting by him: 'For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return?' So it pleased the king to send me; and I set 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 ；
7Moreover I said unto the king: 'If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through till I come unto Judah;
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 unto Asaph the keeper of the king's park, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertaineth to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into.' And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon 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。
9Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army 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 when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, for that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
11我到了 耶路撒冷 ，在那裏住了三日。
11So 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; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save 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 valley gate, even toward the dragon's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof 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。
14Then I went on to the fountain gate and to the king's pool; but there was no place for the beast that was under me 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。
15Then went I up in the night in the valley, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so 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。
16And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor 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 said I unto them: 'Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire; come and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more 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 told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also of the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said: 'Let us rise up and build.' So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
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 when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said: 'What is this thing that ye do? will ye 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。」
20Then answered I them, and said unto them: 'The God of heaven, He will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build; but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.'
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