Nehemiah 6
1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—
當桑巴拉特、托彼雅、阿剌伯人革笙和我們其他的仇敵，一聽說我重修了城牆，已沒有破口的地方，──雖然到那時，我還沒有在門上按裝門扇，──
2 Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm me.
桑巴拉特和革笙，便派人到我這裏說：「請來，我們在敖諾平原的一個村鎮中會晤。」其實他們是企圖謀害我。
3 So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to go down to you?”
我遂派使者去答覆他們說：「我作的工程浩大，不能前去。我怎能離開工作，到你們那裡去，而使工程停頓呢﹖」
4 Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.
他們如此連續四次，遣使者到我這裏，我也同樣答覆了他們。
5 The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same message by his young servant, who had in his hand an unsealed letter
隨後，桑巴拉特第五次，又同樣打發他的臣僕來，手中拿著一封未封的信，
6 that read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,
信上寫著說：「在各民族中傳說，而且革笙也證實此說：你和猶太人圖謀造反，為此你纔重修城牆；據說你還要為王。
7 and you have even appointed prophets in Jerusalem to proclaim on your behalf: ‘There is a king in Judah.’ Soon these rumors will reach the ears of the king. So come, let us confer together.”
並且你派定了先知，在耶路撒冷為你宣傳說：猶大有了王! 現今這些話勢必傳到君王那裏，所以請你來，我們互相商議商議。」
8 Then I sent him this reply: “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”
我遂派遣使者向他說：「決沒有像你所說的那些事，是你心中虛構的。」
9 For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will never be finished.” But now, my God, strengthen my hands.
其實，他們是企圖恐嚇我們，心想：「如此他們必放棄那工程，不在工作下去。」但我的力量更堅強了。
10 Later, I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house. He said: “Let us meet at the house of God inside the temple. Let us shut the temple doors because they are coming to kill you— by night they are coming to kill you!”
有一天，我來到默塔貝耳的孫子，德拉雅的兒子舍瑪雅的家裏，他正閉門在家，對我說：「我們上天主的殿，到聖所裏去會晤，關好聖所的門戶，因為他們要來殺你，且今夜要來殺你。」
11 But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Should one like me go into the temple to save his own life? I will not go!”
我答說：「像我這樣的人，能逃避到聖所中，保全生命嗎﹖我決不進去! 」
12 I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
我覺察出來，不是天主打發他向我講這預言，而是托彼雅和桑巴拉特賄賂了他，
13 He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would sin by doing as he suggested, so they could give me a bad name in order to discredit me.
要他恐嚇我，使我那樣去作犯罪的事，如此給他們留下一種壞名譽，好藉以辱罵我。
14 O my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who tried to intimidate me.
我的天主! 請你按照托彼雅和桑巴拉特之所行，記憶他們! 也不要忘卻諾阿狄雅女先知和其餘的先知，因為他們企圖使我恐懼。
15 So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.
「厄路耳」月二十五日，城垣完成，共計為時五十二日。
16 When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and disheartened, for they realized that this task had been accomplished by our God.
我們所有的仇敵一聽說這事，我們四周的人民一看見這事，都十分驚異，並承認這工程，是賴我們的天主而完成的。
17 Also in those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came back to them.
在此期間，猶大有些有權勢的人，給托彼雅寄了許多函件，托彼雅也有覆函寄回。
18 For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, since he was a son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.
因為猶大有許多人，與他宣示為盟，因他原是阿辣黑的兒子，舍加尼亞的女婿，他的兒子約哈南，又取了貝勒革雅的兒子默叔藍的女而為妻。
19 Moreover, these nobles kept reporting to me Tobiah’s good deeds, and they relayed my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.
他們常在我面前稱道他的善行，也將我的事向他報告，托彼雅遂來信恐嚇我。
