尼希米記 6
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1參巴拉 、 多比雅 、 阿拉伯 人 基善 和我們其餘的仇敵聽見我已經修完了城牆，其中沒有破裂之處（那時我還沒有安門扇）的，
1And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gossem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it, (though at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,)
2參巴拉 和 基善 就打發人來見我，說：「請你來，我們在 阿挪 平原的一個村莊相會。」他們卻想害我。
2Sanaballat and Gossem Rent to me, saying: Come, and let us make a league together in the villages, in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
3於是我差遣人去見他們，說：「我現在辦理大工，不能下去。焉能停工下去見你們呢？」
3And I sent messengers to them, saying: I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down, lest it be neglected whilst I come, and go down to you.
4他們這樣四次打發人來見我，我都如此回答他們。
4And they sent to me according to this word, four times: and I answered them after the same manner.
5參巴拉 第五次打發僕人來見我，手裏拿着未封的信，
5And Sanaballat sent his servant to me the fifth time according to the former word, and he had a letter in his hand written in this manner:
6信上寫着說：「外邦人中有風聲， 迦施慕 也說，你和 猶大 人謀反，修造城牆，你要作他們的王；
6It is reported amongst the Gentiles, and Gossem hath said it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel, and therefore thou buildest the wall, and hast a mind to set thyself king over them: for which end
7你又派先知在 耶路撒冷 指着你宣講，說在 猶大 有王。現在這話必傳與王知；所以請你來，與我們彼此商議。」
7Thou hast also set up prophets, to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying: There is a king in Judea. The king will hear of these things: therefore come now, that we may take counsel together.
8我就差遣人去見他，說：「你所說的這事，一概沒有，是你心裏捏造的。」
8And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.
9他們都要使我們懼怕，意思說，他們的手必軟弱，以致工作不能成就。 上帝啊 ，求你堅固我的手。
9For all these men thought to frighten us, thinking that our hands would cease from the work, and that we would leave off. Wherefore I strengthened my hands the more:
10我到了 米希大別 的孫子、 第來雅 的兒子 示瑪雅 家裏；那時，他閉門不出。他說：「我們不如在上帝的殿裏會面，將殿門關鎖；因為他們要來殺你，就是夜裏來殺你。」
10And I went into the house of Samaia the son of Delaia, the son of Metabeel privately. And he said: Let us consult together in the house of God in the midst of the temple: and let us shut the doors of the temple, for they will come to kill thee, and in the night they will come to slay thee.
11我說：「像我這樣的人豈要逃跑呢？像我這樣的人豈能進入殿裏保全生命呢？我不進去！」
11And I said: Should such a man as I Bee? and who is there that being as I am, would go into the temple, to save his life? I will not go in.
12我看明上帝沒有差遣他，是他自己說這話攻擊我，是 多比雅 和 參巴拉 賄買了他。
12And I understood that God had not sent him, but that he had spoken to me as if he had been prophesying, and Tobias, and Sanaballat had hired him.
13賄買他的緣故，是要叫我懼怕，依從他犯罪，他們好傳揚惡言毀謗我。
13For he had taken money, that I being afraid should do this thing, and sin, and they might have some evil to upbraid me withal.
14我的上帝啊， 多比雅 、 參巴拉 、女先知 挪亞底 ，和其餘的先知要叫我懼怕，求你記念他們所行的這些事。
14Remember me, O Lord, for Tobias and Sanaballat, according to their works of this kind: and Noadias the prophet, and the rest of the prophets that would have put me in fear.
15以祿 月 二十五 日 ，城牆修完了，共修了五十二天。
15But the wall was finished the five and twentieth day of the month of Elul, in two and fifty days.
16我們一切仇敵、四圍的外邦人聽見了便懼怕，愁眉不展；因為見這工作完成是出乎我們的上帝。
16And it came to pass when all our enemies heard of it, that all nations which were round about us, were afraid, and were cast down within themselves, for they perceived that this work was the work of God.
17在那些日子， 猶大 的貴冑屢次寄信與 多比雅 ， 多比雅 也來 信 與他們。
17Moreover in those days many letters were sent by the principal men of the Jews to Tobias, and from Tobias there came letters to them.
18在 猶大 有許多人與 多比雅 結盟；因他是 亞拉 的兒子， 示迦尼 的女婿，並且他的兒子 約哈難 娶了 比利迦 兒子 米書蘭 的女兒為妻。
18For there were many in Judea sworn to him, because he was the son in law of Sechenias the son of Area, and Johanan his son had taken to wife the daughter of Mosollam the son of Barachias.
19他們常在我面前說 多比雅 的善行，也將我的話傳與他。 多比雅 又常寄信來，要叫我懼怕。
19And they praised him also before me, and they related my words to him: And Tobias sent letters to put me in fear.
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