尼希米记 6
1 参巴拉、多比雅、阿拉伯人基善和我们其余的仇敌听见我已经修完了城墙，其中没有破裂之处（那时我还没有安门扇），
And it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobijah, and Geshem 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 参巴拉和基善就打发人来见我，说：“请你来，我们在阿挪平原的一个村庄相会。”他们却想害我。
that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
3 于是我差遣人去见他们，说：“我现在办理大工，不能下去。焉能停工下去见你们呢？”
And I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down. Why should the work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you?
4 他们这样四次打发人来见我，我都如此回答他们。
And they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them in the same manner.
5 参巴拉第五次打发仆人来见我，手里拿着未封的信，
Then sent Sanballat his servant to me in this manner the fifth time, with an open letter in his hand,
6 信上写着说：“外邦人中有风声，迦施慕也说，你和犹大人谋反，修造城墙，你要作他们的王；
in which was written: It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says [it, that] thou and the Jews think to rebel, for which cause thou buildest the wall, and according to these words thou wilt become their king.
7 你又派先知在耶路撒冷指着你宣讲，说在犹大有王。现在这话必传与王知；所以请你来，与我们彼此商议。”
And thou hast also appointed prophets to proclaim concerning thee at Jerusalem saying, There is a king in Judah! And now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
8 我就差遣人去见他，说：“你所说的这事，一概没有，是你心里捏造的。”
And I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
9 他们都要使我们惧怕，意思说，他们的手必软弱，以致工作不能成就。 神啊，求你坚固我的手。
For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be slackened from the work, that it be not carried out. — Now therefore strengthen my hands!
10 我到了米希大别的孙子、第来雅的儿子示玛雅家里；那时，他闭门不出。他说：“我们不如在 神的殿里会面，将殿门关锁；因为他们要来杀你，就是夜里来杀你。”
And I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabeel, 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 kill thee; even in the night are they coming to kill thee.
11 我说：“像我这样的人岂要逃跑呢？像我这样的人岂能进入殿里保全生命呢？我不进去！”
And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, could go into the temple, and live? I will not go in.
12 我看明 神没有差遣他，是他自己说这话攻击我，是多比雅和参巴拉贿买了他。
And I perceived, and behold, God had not sent him; for he pronounced this prophecy against me; and Tobijah and Sanballat had hired him.
13 贿买他的缘故，是要叫我惧怕，依从他犯罪，他们好传扬恶言毁谤我。
Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have wherewith to spread an evil report, that they might reproach me.
14 我的 神啊，多比雅、参巴拉、女先知挪亚底，和其余的先知要叫我惧怕，求你记念他们所行的这些事。
My God, remember Tobijah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets who would have put me in fear.
15 以禄月二十五日，城墙修完了，共修了五十二天。
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.
16 我们一切仇敌、四围的外邦人听见了便惧怕，愁眉不展；因为见这工作完成是出乎我们的 神。
And it came to pass that when all our enemies heard [of it], all the nations that were about us were afraid and were much cast down in their own eyes, and they perceived that this work was wrought by our God.
17 在那些日子，犹大的贵胄屡次寄信与多比雅，多比雅也来信与他们。
Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobijah, and those of Tobijah came to them.
18 在犹大有许多人与多比雅结盟；因他是亚拉的儿子，示迦尼的女婿，并且他的儿子约哈难娶了比利迦儿子米书兰的女儿为妻。
For there were many in Judah sworn to him; for he was a son-in-law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
19 他们常在我面前说多比雅的善行，也将我的话传与他。多比雅又常寄信来，要叫我惧怕。
Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. [And] Tobijah sent letters to put me in fear.
