Nehemiah 5
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Simplified)
1Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
1百姓和他们的妻大大呼号，埋怨他们的弟兄 犹大 人。
2And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many: Yet us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and live.
2有的说：「我们和儿女人口众多，要去得粮食度命」；
3And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.
3有的说：「我们典了田地、葡萄园、房屋，要得粮食充饥」；
4And others said: Let us borrow money for the king’s tribute, and let us give up 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。
5And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.
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。」
6And I was exceedingly angry when I heard their cry according to these words.
6我听见他们呼号说这些话，便甚发怒。
7And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and magistrates, and said to them: Do you every one exact usury of your brethren? And I gathered together a great 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 I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to our ability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and will you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held their peace, and found not what to answer.
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。
9And I said to them: The thing you do is not good: why walk you not in the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the Gentiles our 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。
10Both I and my brethren, and my servants, have lent money and corn to many: let us all agree not to call for it again; let us forgive the debt that is owing to us.
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。
11Restore ye to them this day their fields, and their vineyards, and their oliveyards, and their houses: and the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which you mere wont to exact of them, give it rather for 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。」
12And they said: We will restore, and we will require nothing of them: and we will do as thou sayest. And I called the priests and took an oath of them, to do according to what I had said.
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。
13Moreover I shook my lap, and said: So may God shake every man that shall not accomplish this word, out of his house, and out of his labours, thus may he be shaken out, and become empty. And all the multitude said: Amen. And they praised God. And the people did according to what was said.
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。
14And from the day, in which the king commanded me to be governor in the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my brethren did not eat the yearly allowance that was due to the governors.
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。
15But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sides: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the 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。
16Moreover I built in the work of the wall, and I bought no land, and all my servants were gathered together to the work.
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。
17The Jews also and the magistrates to the number of one hundred and fifty men, were at my table, besides them that came to us from among the nations that were round about us.
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。
18And there was prepared for me day by day one ox, and six choice rams, besides fowls, and once in ten days I gave store of divers wines, and many other things: yet I did not require my yearly allowance as governor: for the people were very much impoverished.
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, O my God, for good according to 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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