نَحَمْيا 2
| وَفِي ذَاتِ يَوْمٍ مِنْ شَهْرِ نِيسَانَ، فِي السَّنَةِ الْعِشْرِينَ مِنْ حُكْمِ أَرْتَحْشَشْتَا الْمَلِكِ، حِينَ أُحْضِرَتِ الْخَمْرُ لِلْمَلِكِ فَتَنَاوَلْتُهَا وَقَدَّمْتُهَا لَهُ بِوَجْهٍ مُكَمَّدٍ. وَلَمْ يَسْبِقْ لِي أَنْ مَثَلْتُ أَمَامَهُ مَغْمُوماً | ١ 1 |
And it comes to pass, in the month of Nisan, the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, wine [is] before him, and I lift up the wine, and give to the king, and I had not been sad before him;
| فَسَأَلَنِي الْمَلِكُ: «مَالِي أَرَى وَجْهَكَ مُكَمَّداً وَأَنْتَ غَيْرُ مَرِيضٍ؟ هَذَا لَيْسَ سِوَى كَآبَةِ قَلْبٍ». فَسَاوَرَنِي خَوْفٌ عَظِيمٌ. | ٢ 2 |
and the king says to me, “Why [is] your face sad, and you not sick? This is nothing except sadness of heart”; and I fear very much,
| وَقُلْتُ لِلْمَلِكِ: «لِيَحْيَ الْمَلِكُ إِلَى الأَبَدِ! كَيْفَ لَا يَنْقَبِضُ وَجْهِي، وَالْمَدِينَةُ الَّتِي دُفِنَ فِيهَا آبَائِي قَدْ صَارَتْ خَرَاباً، وَأَبْوَابُهَا قَدِ الْتَهَمَتْهَا النِّيرَانُ؟» | ٣ 3 |
and say to the king, “Let the king live for all time! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of the graves of my fathers, [is] a desolation, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”
| فَسَأَلَنِي الْمَلِكُ: «أَيَّ شَيْءٍ تَطْلُبُ؟» فَصَلَّيْتُ إِلَى إِلَهِ السَّمَاءِ، | ٤ 4 |
And the king says to me, “For what are you seeking?” And I pray to the God of the heavens,
| وَأَجَبْتُ الْمَلِكَ: «إِذَا طَابَ لِلْمَلِكِ، وَحَظِيَ عَبْدُكَ بِرِضَاكَ، فَإِنَّنِي أَلْتَمِسُ أَنْ تُرْسِلَنِي إِلَى يَهُوذَا، إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ الَّتِي دُفِنَ فِيهَا آبَائِي فَأَبْنِيَهَا». | ٥ 5 |
and say to the king, “If [it is] good to the king, and if your servant is pleasing before you, that you send me to Judah, to the city of the graves of my fathers, and I have built it.”
| فَسَأَلَنِي الْمَلِكُ الَّذِي كَانَتِ الْمَلِكَةُ تَجْلِسُ إِلَى جِوَارِهِ: «كَمْ تَطُولُ غَيْبَتُكَ، وَمَتَى تَرْجِعُ؟» فَحَدَّدْتُ لَهُ مَوْعِدَ رُجُوعِي، إذْ طَابَ لَهُ أَنْ يُرْسِلَنِي. | ٦ 6 |
And the king says to me (and the queen is sitting near him), “How long is your journey? And when do you return?” And it is good before the king, and he sends me away, and I set to him a time.
| وَقُلْتُ: «إِنِ اسْتَحْسَنَ الْمَلِكُ فَلْيَبْعَثْ مَعِي رَسَائِلَ إِلَى وُلاةِ عَبْرِ نَهْرِ الْفُرَاتِ، لِيَسْمَحُوا لِي بِاجْتِيَازِ أَرَاضِيهِمْ حَتَّى أَصِلَ إِلَى يَهُوذَا، | ٧ 7 |
And I say to the king, “If [it is] good to the king, let letters be given to me for the governors beyond the River, that they let me pass over until I come to Judah:
| وَرِسَالَةً إِلَى آسَافَ الْمَسْؤولِ عَنْ غَابَاتِ الْمَلِكِ لِيُعْطِيَنِي أَخْشَاباً أَصْنَعُ مِنْهَا دَعَائِمَ بَوَّابَاتِ الْقَلْعَةِ الْمُجَاوِرَةِ لِلْهَيْكَلِ، وَسُورِ الْمَدِينَةِ، وَالدَّارِ الَّتِي سَأُقِيمُ فِيهَا». فَوَافَقَ الْمَلِكُ عَلَى طَلَبِي بِفَضْلِ رِعَايَةِ إِلَهِي الصَّالِحَةِ لِي. | ٨ 8 |
and a letter to Asaph, keeper of the paradise that the king has, that he give to me trees for beams [for] the gates of the palace that the house has, and for the wall of the city, and for the house into which I enter”; and the king gives to me, according to the good hand of my God on me.
| فَجِئْتُ إِلَى وُلاةِ عَبْرِ النَّهْرِ، وَسَلَّمْتُهُمْ رَسَائِلَ الْمَلِكِ. وَكَانَ الْمَلِكُ قَدْ أَمَرَ بَعْضَ ضُبَّاطِ الْجَيْشِ وَالْفُرْسَانِ بِمُرَافَقَتِي. | ٩ 9 |
And I come to the governors beyond the River, and give to them the letters of the king; and the king sends with me heads of a force, and horsemen;
| وَعِنْدَمَا عَلِمَ سَنْبَلَّطُ الْحُورُونِيُّ وَطُوبِيَّا الْعَبْدُ الْعَمُّونِيُّ بِوُصُولِي، سَاءَهُمَا جِدّاً أَنْ يَأْتِيَ رَجُلٌ يَسْعَى لِخَيْرِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ١٠ 10 |
and Sanballat the Horonite hears, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and it is evil to them—a great evil—that a man has come to seek good for the sons of Israel.
| وَبعْدَ أَنْ وَصَلْتُ أُورُشَلِيمَ مَكَثْتُ هُنَاكَ ثَلاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ، | ١١ 11 |
And I come to Jerusalem, and I am there three days,
| ثُمَّ قُمْتُ لَيْلاً بِرُفْقَةِ نَفَرٍ قَلِيلٍ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ، مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ أُطْلِعَ أَحَداً عَمَّا أَثْقَلَ إِلَهِي بِهِ قَلْبِي لأَصْنَعَهُ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ. وَلَمْ يَكُنْ مَعِي بَهِيمَةٌ سِوَى الْبَهِيمَةِ الَّتِي أَمْتَطِيهَا. | ١٢ 12 |
and I rise by night, I and a few men with me, and have not declared to a man what my God is giving to my heart to do for Jerusalem, and there is no beast with me except the beast on which I am riding.
| فَتَسَلَّلْتُ لَيْلاً مِنْ بَابِ الْوَادِي، نَحْوَ عَيْنِ التِّنِّينِ، حَتَّى وَصَلْتُ إِلَى بَوَّابَةِ الدِّمْنِ. وَشَرَعْتُ أَتَفَرَّسُ فِي أَسْوَارِ أُورُشَلِيمَ الْمُنْهَدِمَةِ وَأَبْوَابِهَا الْمُحْتَرِقَةِ، | ١٣ 13 |
And I go out through the Valley Gate by night, and to the front of the Dragon Fountain, and to the Refuse Gate, and I am inspecting the walls of Jerusalem, that are broken down, and its gates consumed with fire.
| ثُمَّ اجْتَزْتُ إِلَى بَابِ الْعَيْنِ، وَمِنْهُ إِلَى بِرْكَةِ الْمَلِكِ، حَيْثُ لَمْ يَكُنْ مَوْضِعٌ تَعْبُرُ عَلَيْهِ الْبَهِيمَةُ الَّتِي أَمْتَطِيهَا. | ١٤ 14 |
And I pass over to the Fountain Gate, and to the King’s Pool, and there is no place for the beast under me to pass over,
| ثُمَّ تَابَعْتُ صُعُودِي لَيْلاً بِمُحَاذَاةِ الْوَادِي، وَرُحْتُ أَتَأَمَّلُ فِي السُّورِ، ثُمَّ عُدْتُ رَاجِعاً عَبْرَ بَابِ الْوَادِي | ١٥ 15 |
and I am going up through the brook by night, and am inspecting the wall, and turn back, and come in through the Valley Gate, and turn back.
| وَلَمْ يَعْرِفِ الْوُلاةُ وَسِوَاهُمْ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ وَالْكَهَنَةِ وَالأَشْرَافِ وَبَاقِي الْعُمَّالِ إِلَى أَيْنَ ذَهَبْتُ، وَلا مَا أَنَا مُزْمِعٌ فِعْلَهُ، لأَنَّنِي لَمْ أُطْلِعْ أَحَداً عَلَى شَيْءٍ. | ١٦ 16 |
And the prefects have not known to where I have gone, and what I am doing; and to the Jews, and to the priests, and to the nobles, and to the prefects, and to the rest of those doing the work, until now I have not declared [it];
| ثُمَّ قُلْتُ لَهُمْ: أَنْتُمْ تَشْهَدُونَ مَا نَحْنُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ ضِيقٍ، فَأُورُشَلِيمُ خَرِبَةٌ وَأَبْوَابُهَا مُحْتَرِقَةٌ، فَهَيَّا بِنَا نَبْنِي سُورَ أُورُشَلِيمَ فَلا نُقَاسِي بَعْدُ مِنَ الْعَارِ. | ١٧ 17 |
and I say to them, “You are seeing the evil that we are in, in that Jerusalem [is] desolate, and its gates have been burned with fire; come and we build the wall of Jerusalem, and we are not a reproach anymore.”
| وَأَطْلَعْتُهُمْ عَمَّا رَعَانِي بِهِ إِلَهِي مِنْ عِنَايَةٍ صَالِحَةٍ، وَعَلَى حَدِيثِ الْمَلِكِ الَّذِي خَاطَبَنِي بِهِ، فَقَالُوا: لِنَقُمْ وَنَبْنِ السُّورَ وَتَضَافَرُوا جَمِيعاً لِلْقِيَامِ بِالْعَمَلِ الصَّالِحِ. | ١٨ 18 |
And I declare to them the hand of my God that is good on me, and also the words of the king that he said to me, and they say, “Let us rise, and we have built”; and they strengthen their hands for good.
| وَعِنْدَمَا عَرَفَ سَنْبَلَّطُ الْحُورُونِيُّ وَطُوبِيَّا الْعَبْدُ الْعَمُّونِيُّ وَجَشَمٌ الْعَرَبِيُّ بِمَا نَنْوِي عَمَلَهُ، سَخِرُوا بِنَا وَاحْتَقَرُونَا قَائِلِينَ: أَيُّ أَمْرٍ أَنْتُمْ عَازِمُونَ عَلَيْهِ؟ أَتَتَمَرَّدُونَ عَلَى الْمَلِكِ؟ | ١٩ 19 |
And Sanballat the Horonite hears, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, “What [is] this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
| عِنْدَئِذٍ أَجَبْتُهُمْ: إِلَهُ السَّمَاءِ يُكَلِّلُ عَمَلَنَا بِالنَّجَاحِ، وَنَحْنُ عَبِيدُهُ نَقُومُ وَنَبْنِي. وَأَمَّا أَنْتُمْ فَلا نَصِيبَ لَكُمْ وَلا حَقَّ وَلا ذِكْرَ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ. | ٢٠ 20 |
And I return them word, and say to them, “The God of the heavens—He gives prosperity to us, and we His servants rise and have built; and to you there is no portion, and right, and memorial in Jerusalem.”
