尼希米记 4
1 参巴拉听见我们修造城墙就发怒，大大恼恨，嗤笑犹大人，
But when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, then was he wroth and sore grieued, and mocked the Iewes,
2 对他弟兄和撒马利亚的军兵说：“这些软弱的犹大人做什么呢？要保护自己吗？要献祭吗？要一日成功吗？要从土堆里拿出火烧的石头再立墙吗？”
And sayde before his brethren and the armie of Samaria, thus he sayde, What doe these weake Iewes? wil they fortifie them selues? wil they sacrifice? will they finish it in a day? will they make the stones whole againe out of the heapes of dust, seeing they are burnt?
3 亚扪人多比雅站在旁边，说：“他们所修造的石墙，就是狐狸上去也必跐倒。”
And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and said, Although they buylde, yet if a foxe goe vp, he shall euen breake downe their stonie wall.
4 我们的 神啊，求你垂听，因为我们被藐视。求你使他们的毁谤归于他们的头上，使他们在掳到之地作为掠物。
Heare, O our God (for we are despised) and turne their shame vpon their owne head, and giue them vnto a pray in the lande of their captiuitie,
5 不要遮掩他们的罪孽，不要使他们的罪恶从你面前涂抹，因为他们在修造的人眼前惹动你的怒气。
And couer not their iniquitie, neither let their sinne be put out in thy presence: for they haue prouoked vs before the builders.
6 这样，我们修造城墙，城墙就都连络，高至一半，因为百姓专心做工。
So we built the wall, and all the wall was ioyned vnto the halfe thereof, and the heart of the people was to worke.
7 参巴拉、多比雅、阿拉伯人、亚扪人、亚实突人听见修造耶路撒冷城墙，着手进行堵塞破裂的地方，就甚发怒。
But when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodims heard that the walles of Ierusalem were repayred, (for the breaches began to be stopped) then they were very wroth,
8 大家同谋要来攻击耶路撒冷，使城内扰乱。
And conspired all together to come and to fight against Ierusalem, and to hinder them.
9 然而，我们祷告我们的 神，又因他们的缘故，就派人看守，昼夜防备。
The we prayed vnto our God, and set watchmen by them, day and night, because of them.
10 犹大人说：“灰土尚多，扛抬的人力气已经衰败，所以我们不能建造城墙。”
And Iudah said, The strength of the bearers is weakened, and there is much earth, so that we are not able to build the wall.
11 我们的敌人且说：“趁他们不知不见，我们进入他们中间，杀他们，使工作止住。”
Also our aduersaries had sayde, They shall not knowe, neither see, till we come into the middes of them and slay them, and cause the worke to cease.
12 那靠近敌人居住的犹大人十次从各处来见我们，说：“你们必要回到我们那里。”
But when the Iewes (which dwelt beside them) came, they told vs ten times, From all places whence ye shall returne, they wil be vpon vs.
13 所以我使百姓各按宗族拿刀、拿枪、拿弓站在城墙后边低洼的空处。
Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall vpon the toppes of the stones, and placed the people by their families, with their swordes, their speares and their bowes.
14 我察看了，就起来对贵胄、官长，和其余的人说：“不要怕他们！当记念主是大而可畏的。你们要为弟兄、儿女、妻子、家产争战。”
Then I behelde, and rose vp, and said vnto the Princes, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not afrayde of them: remember the great Lord, and fearefull, and fight for your brethren, your sonnes, and your daughters, your wiues, and your houses.
15 仇敌听见我们知道他们的心意，见 神也破坏他们的计谋，就不来了。我们都回到城墙那里，各做各的工。
And when our enemies heard that it was knowen vnto vs, then God brought their counsell to nought, and we turned all againe to the wall, euery one vnto his worke.
16 从那日起，我的仆人一半做工，一半拿枪、拿盾牌、拿弓、穿铠甲，官长都站在犹大众人的后边。
And from that day, halfe of the yong men did the labour, and the other halfe part of them helde the speares, and shieldes, and bowes, and habergins: and the rulers stoode behinde all the house of Iudah.
17 修造城墙的，扛抬材料的，都一手做工一手拿兵器。
They that buylded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, and they that laded, did the worke with one hand, and with the other helde the sworde.
18 修造的人都腰间佩刀修造，吹角的人在我旁边。
For euery one of the buylders had his sworde girded on his loynes, and so buylded: and he that blewe the trumpet, was beside me.
19 我对贵胄、官长，和其余的人说：“这工程浩大，我们在城墙上相离甚远；
Then saide I vnto the Princes, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The worke is great and large, and we are separated vpon the wall, one farre from another.
20 你们听见角声在哪里，就聚集到我们那里去。我们的 神必为我们争战。”
In what place therefore ye heare the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither vnto vs: our God shall fight for vs.
21 于是，我们做工，一半拿兵器，从天亮直到星宿出现的时候。
So we laboured in the worke, and halfe of them helde the speares, from the appearing of the morning, till the starres came foorth.
22 那时，我又对百姓说：“各人和他的仆人当在耶路撒冷住宿，好在夜间保守我们，白昼做工。”
And at the same time said I vnto the people, Let euery one with his seruant lodge within Ierusalem, that they may be a watch for vs in the night, and labour in the day.
23 这样，我和弟兄仆人，并跟从我的护兵都不脱衣服，出去打水也带兵器。
So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my seruants, nor the men of the warde, (which followed me) none of vs did put off our clothes, saue euery one put them off for washing.
