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尼希米記-Nehemiah 第 6 章

6:1	參巴拉、多比雅、亞拉伯人基善、和我們其餘的仇敵，聽見我已經建造了城牆，其中沒有破裂之處，(不過到那時我還沒有在城門上安門扇，) And when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arabian and the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that no breach remained in it (though as yet I had not set up the doors in the gates),
6:2	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。他們卻圖謀害我。 Sanballat and Geshem sent word to me, saying, Come; let us meet together among the villages in the plain of Ono. But they intended to do me harm.
6:3	於是我差遣人去見他們，說，我現在辦理大工，不能下去。我為何放開工作，下去見你們，使工作停頓呢？ And I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it to come down to you?
6:4	他們四次這樣打發人來見我，我都如此回答。 And they sent word to me four times in this way, and I answered them in this way.
6:5	參巴拉第五次這樣打發仆人來見我，手裏拿著未封的信， Then Sanballat sent his servant to me in this way the fifth time, with an open letter in his hand,
6:6	信上寫著說，外邦人中有風聲，基善也說，你和猶大人謀反，因此你建造城牆。照他們這些話，你要作他們的王。 In which was written: It is reported among the nations, and Geshem says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; therefore you are building the wall. And, according to these words, you are to be their king.
6:7	你又設立申言者在耶路撒冷指著你宣告說，在猶大有王了！現在這些話必傳與王知；所以請你來，與我們彼此商議。 And you have also set up prophets to declare in Jerusalem concerning you, saying, There is a king in Judah! And now a report will be made to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
6:8	我就差遣人去見他，說，你所說的這些事，一概沒有，是你自己心裏捏造的。 Then I sent word to him, saying, None of these things that you are saying have happened; rather you have invented them in your own heart.
6:9	他們都要使我們懼怕，意思說，他們的手必軟弱不能作工，以致工作不能成就。現在，神阿，求你堅固我的手。 For all of them tried to frighten us, thinking, Their hands will be weakened from working, and it will not be done. But now strengthen my hands!
6:10	我到了米希大別的孫子，第來雅的兒子示瑪雅家；那時，他閉門不出。他說，我們不如在神的殿，在殿堂中會麵，將殿堂的門關鎖；因為他們要來殺你，就是在夜裏來殺你。 And I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who had shut himself up. And he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple; and let us shut the doors of the temple, for they are coming to slay you; indeed at night they are coming to slay you.
6:11	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！ But I said, Should a man like me flee? And who, being like me, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
6:12	我看出神並沒有差遣他，是他自己這樣申言攻擊我，是多比雅和參巴拉賄買了他。 Then I perceived that surely God had not sent him but that he spoke this prophecy against me and that Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
6:13	賄買他的緣故，是要叫我懼怕，依從他這樣行，以致犯罪，他們就有理由傳揚惡言毀謗我。 He had been hired for this reason, that I would be frightened and that I would act in such a way as to sin; then they would have cause for an evil report in order to reproach me.
6:14	我的神阿，求你記得多比雅和參巴拉，照著他們所作的這些事報應他們，也要記得女申言者挪亞底和其餘的申言者，他們想要叫我懼怕。 Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these works of theirs, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets, who tried to frighten me.
6:15	以祿月二十五日，城牆修完了，共修了五十二天。 So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Elul, in fifty-two days.
6:16	我們一切的仇敵聽見了，四圍的外邦人都懼怕，愁眉不展；因為知道這工作完成是出於我們的神。 And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that surrounded us were afraid and fell very low in their own eyes, for they knew that this work was done with the help of our God.
6:17	再者，在那些日子，猶大的貴胄屢次寄信與多比雅，多比雅也來信與他們。 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came to them;
6:18	在猶大有許多人與多比雅結盟，因他是亞拉兒子示迦尼的女婿，並且他的兒子約哈難娶了比利迦兒子米書蘭的女兒為妻。 For many in Judah were sworn to his cause because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as his wife.
6:19	他們常在我麵前說多比雅的善行，也將我的話傳與他。多比雅又寄一些信來，要叫我懼怕。 They also spoke of his good deeds before me and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.

尼希米記-Nehemiah 第 6 章