Nehemiah 6
1 Now it happened that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem, an Arab, and our other enemies, had heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no interruption remaining in it, (even though, at that time, I had not set up the double doors at the gates, )
| سنبلط، طوبیا، جشم عرب و بقیه دشمنان ما شنیدند که کار تعمیر حصار رو به اتمام است (هر چند تمام درهای دروازه‌ها را کار نگذاشته بودیم)، |
2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying: “Come, and let us strike a pact together in the villages, on the plain of Ono.” But they were thinking that they would do me harm.
| پس سنبلط و جشم برای من پیغام فرستادند که در یکی از دهات دشت اونو به دیدن ایشان بروم. ولی من پی بردم که می‌خواهند به من آسیبی برسانند؛ |
3 Therefore, I sent messengers to them, saying: “I am doing a great work, and I cannot descend, lest perhaps it may be neglected when I go out and descend to you.”
| پس جوابشان را اینطور دادم: «من مشغول کار مهمی هستم و نمی‌توانم دست از کارم بکشم و به دیدن شما بیایم.» |
4 Then they sent to me, with this same word, four times. And I responded to them with the same word as before.
| ایشان چهار بار برای من همان پیغام را فرستادند و من هم هر بار همان جواب را دادم. |
5 And Sanballat sent his servant to me a fifth time, with the former word, and he had a letter in his hand written in this manner:
| بار پنجم، مأمور سنبلط با یک نامهٔ سرگشاده پیش من آمد؛ |
6 “It has been heard among the Gentiles, and Geshem has said it, that you and the Jews are planning to rebel, and because of this, you are building the wall and thinking to raise yourself as a king over them. For this reason,
| مضمون نامه چنین بود: «جشم به من می‌گوید که بین مردم شایع شده که تو و یهودیان قصد شورش دارید، و به همین جهت است که دور شهر اورشلیم حصار می‌کشی؛ و بنا به این گزارش، تو می‌خواهی پادشاه ایشان بشوی. |
7 you also have stationed prophets, who preach about you in Jerusalem, saying: ‘There is a king in Judea!’ But the king will hear about these words. Therefore, come now, so that we may go to counsel together.”
| از این گذشته انبیایی تعیین کرده‌ای تا در اورشلیم مردم را دور خود جمع کنند و بگویند که نحمیا پادشاه یهوداست. مطمئن باش این خبرها به گوش اردشیر پادشاه خواهد رسید. پس بهتر است پیش من بیایی تا در این مورد با هم مشورت کنیم.» |
8 And I sent to them, saying: “There has been nothing done according to these words, which you have spoken. For you are inventing these things from your own heart.”
| جواب دادم: «آنچه می‌گویی حقیقت ندارد. اینها ساخته و پرداخته خودت است.» |
9 For all these men wished to frighten us, thinking that our hands would cease from the work, and that we would cease. For this reason, I strengthened my hands all the more.
| آنها می‌خواستند با این حرفها ما را بترسانند تا از کار دست بکشیم. ولی من دعا کردم تا خدا مرا تقویت کند. |
10 And I entered into the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, in secret. And he said: “Let us consult together in the house of God, in the midst of the temple. And let us close the doors of the temple. For they will come to kill you, and they will arrive in the night to put you to death.”
| شمعیا (پسر دلایا و نوه مِهیطَبئیل) در خانهٔ خود بست نشسته بود و من به دیدنش رفتم. وقتی مرا دید، گفت: «باید هر چه زودتر در خانهٔ خدا مخفی بشویم و درها را قفل کنیم. چون امشب می‌آیند تو را بکشند!» |
11 And I said: “How could anyone like me flee? And who like me should enter the temple, so that he may live? I will not enter.”
| ولی من جواب دادم: «آیا می‌شود مردی مثل من از خطر فرار کند؟ من حق ندارم برای حفظ جانم داخل خانهٔ خدا بشوم. من هرگز این کار را نمی‌کنم.» |
12 And I understood that God had not sent him, but he had spoken to me as if he were prophesying, and that Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
| بعد فهمیدم که پیغام شمعیا از طرف خدا نبود، بلکه طوبیا و سنبلط او را اجیر کرده بودند تا مرا بترسانند و وادار کنند به خانهٔ خدا فرار کنم و مرتکب گناه بشوم تا بتوانند مرا رسوا کنند. |
13 For he had accepted money, so that I would be afraid, and would sin, and so that they would have some evil with which to rebuke me.
14 Remember me, O Lord, because of Tobiah and Sanballat, because of their works of this kind. Then, too, Noadiah, a prophetess, and the rest of the prophets, would have made me afraid.
| آنگاه دعا کردم: «ای خدای من، طوبیا و سنبلط را به سزای اعمالشان برسان و نیز به یاد آور که چگونه نوعدیه نبیه و سایر انبیا می‌خواستند مرا بترسانند.» |
15 Now the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Elul, in fifty-two days.
| سرانجام کار بازسازی حصار اورشلیم در بیست و پنجم ماه ایلول تمام شد. این کار پنجاه و دو روز طول کشید. |
16 Then it happened that, when all our enemies had heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they were downcast within themselves. For they knew that this work had been accomplished by God.
| وقتی دشمنان ما که در سرزمینهای مجاور ما بودند این را دیدند، رسوا شدند و فهمیدند که این کار با کمک خدای ما تمام شده است. |
17 But also, in those days, many letters were being sent by the nobles of the Jews to Tobiah, and were arriving from Tobiah to them.
| در این مدت نامه‌های زیادی بین طوبیا و بزرگان یهودا رد و بدل شد. |
18 For there were many in Judea who had sworn an oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah, the son of Arah, and because Jehohanan, his son, had married the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah.
| در یهودا بسیاری با او همدست شده بودند، چون هم خودش داماد شکنیا (پسر آرح) بود و هم پسرش یهوحانان با دختر مشلام (پسر برکیا) ازدواج کرده بود. |
19 Moreover, they praised him before me, and they reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters, so that he might make me afraid.
| مردم پیش من از طوبیا تعریف می‌کردند، و هر چه از من می‌شنیدند به او خبر می‌دادند. طوبیا هم برای اینکه مرا بترساند، نامه‌های تهدیدآمیز برایم می‌نوشت. |
