Nehemiah 9
1 And on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
Dvadeset i četvrtoga dana toga mjeseca skupiše se Izraelci na post, u pokorničkim vrećama i posuti prašinom.
2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
Rod se Izraelov odvojio od svih tuđinaca: pristupili su i ispovijedali svoje grijehe i bezakonja svojih otaca.
3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Jehovah their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshipped Jehovah their God.
Stajali su, svatko na svome mjestu, i čitali knjigu Zakona Jahve, Boga svoga, četvrtinu dana; za druge su četvrtine ispovijedali svoje grijehe i klanjali se Jahvi, Bogu svome.
4 Then stood up upon the platform of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, Chenani, and cried with a loud voice to Jehovah their God.
A Ješua, Bani, Kadmiel, Šebanija, Buni, Šerebja, Bani i Kenani, popevši se na poviše mjesto za levite, vapili su snažnim glasom Jahvi, Bogu svome.
5 And the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, said, Stand up, bless Jehovah your God from eternity to eternity. And let [men] bless the name of thy glory, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
I govorahu leviti Ješua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hašabneja, Šerebja, Hodija, Šebanija i Petahja: “Ustanite, blagoslivljajte Jahvu, Boga našega! Blagoslovljen da si, Jahve, Bože naš, odvijeka dovijeka! I neka je blagoslovljeno tvoje Ime slavno, iznad svakog blagoslova i hvale uzvišeno.
6 Thou art the Same, thou alone, Jehovah, who hast made the heaven of heavens, and all their host, the earth and all that is therein, the seas and all that is therein. And thou quickenest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Ti si, Jahve, Jedini! Ti si stvorio nebo, i nebesa nad nebesima, i vojsku njihovu, zemlju i sve što je na njoj, mora i što je u njima. Ti sve to oživljavaš, i vojske se nebeske tebi klanjaju.
7 Thou art the Same, Jehovah Elohim, who didst choose Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
Ti si, Jahve, Bog, koji si Abrama izabrao, iz Ura kaldejskoga njega izveo i dao mu ime Abraham.
8 and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest the covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, — to give it to his seed; and thou hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous.
Vjerno si srce njegovo pred sobom našao i Savez s njim sklopio da ćeš mu dati zemlju kanaansku, i hetitsku i amorejsku, i perižansku, jebusejsku i girgašansku, njemu i potomstvu njegovu. I svoja si obećanja ispunio, jer si pravedan.
9 And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;
Nevolju si otaca naših u Egiptu vidio, i vapaj si njihov čuo kraj Mora crvenoga.
10 and didst shew signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants, and upon all the people of his land; for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them, and thou didst make thee a name, as it is this day.
Znacima si se i čudesima oborio na faraona i na sve sluge njegove, i na sav narod zemlje njegove; jer znao si kolika je bila protiv njih drskost njihova. Sebi si ime stekao koje do danas traje.
11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they went through the midst of the sea on dry [ground]; and their pursuers thou threwest into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
More si pred njima razdvojio: prešli su usred mora po suhu. U dubine si utopio progonitelje njihove kao kamen među vode silovite.
12 And thou leddest them in the day by a pillar of cloud, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
Stupom oblaka danju si ih vodio, a noću si stupom ognjenim svijetlio im po putu kojim su hodili.
13 And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
Na goru si Sinajsku sišao i s neba im govorio; i dao si im pravedne naredbe, čvrste zakone, zapovijedi izvrsne i uredbe.
14 And thou madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant.
Ti si im objavio svoju svetu subotu, zapovijedi, naredbe i Zakon si im propisao po glasu sluge svoga Mojsija.
15 And thou gavest them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst say to them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
S neba si ih hranio kruhom za njihove gladi, za njihovu si žeđ iz stijene vodu izveo. Ti si im zapovjedio da pođu zaposjesti zemlju za koju si se zakleo da ćeš im dati.
16 But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
Ali se oni i oci naši uzjoguniše, vratove ukrutiše i zapovijedi tvojih nisu slušali.
17 and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not.
Poslušnost su odbili, zaboravili čudesa što si ih za njih učinio; ukrutili su vratove, a u glavu uvrtjeli da u ropstvo se svoje vrate, u Egipat. Ali ti si Bog praštanja, milosrdan i blag, na gnjev si spor, a u milosrdđu velik: i nisi ih ostavio!
18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt! and they had wrought great provocation,
Čak su načinili tele saliveno, 'To bog je tvoj', rekoše, 'koji te izveo iz Egipta!' I teško su hulili,
19 yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness. The pillar of the cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them on the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
a ti u beskrajnom milosrđu nisi ih napuštao u pustinji: stup se oblaka nije pred njima skrivao, danju ih je putem vodio, a stup je plameni noću pred njima svijetlio putem kojim su hodili.
20 Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
Dao si im svoga Duha dobrog da ih naučiš mudrosti, mÓane svoje nisi uskratio njihovim ustima, i u žeđi si im vode pružio.
21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes grew not old, and their feet swelled not.
Četrdeset godina krijepio si ih u pustinji: ništa im nije nedostajalo: niti im se odijelo deralo, niti su im noge oticale.
22 And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, and didst divide them by countries; and they possessed the land of Sihon, as well the land of the king of Heshbon, as the land of Og king of Bashan.
I dao si im kraljevstva i narode i razdijelio ih granicama: zaposjeli su zemlju Sihona, kralja hešbonskoga, i zemlju Oga, kralja bašanskoga.
23 And their children thou didst multiply as the stars of heaven, and thou broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers that they should go in to possess it.
I sinove si im umnožio kao zvijezde nebeske, i u zemlju si ih doveo za koju si rekao njihovim ocima da će ući u nju i zaposjesti je.
24 And the children went in and possessed the land; and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, both their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
Sinovi su ušli i pokorili zemlju, a ti si pred njima svladao stanovnike zemlje, Kanaance, i predao si u ruke njihove kraljeve i narode zemlje da rade s njima što ih je volja;
25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, wells digged, vineyards and olive-gardens, and fruit trees in abundance. And they did eat and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
osvojili su gradove tvrde i zemlju plodnu i naslijedili kuće pune svakog dobra, isklesane zdence, vinograde, maslinike i mnogo plodnog drveća: jeli su, sitili se i debljali i uživali u velikoj dobroti tvojoj.
26 But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Ali su se bunili i odvrgli tebe, i Zakon su tvoj bacili za leđa, ubijali su proroke, koji su ih obraćali da se tebi vrate, i grdno su hulili.
27 And thou gavest them into the hand of their oppressors, and they oppressed them; and in the time of their distress, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from the heavens, and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their oppressors.
U ruke si ih tada predao osvajačima, koji su ih tlačili. A u vrijeme muke svoje tebi su vapili i ti si ih s neba uslišio i u velikoj dobroti svojoj slao si im izbavitelje, koji su ih iz ruku tlačitelja njihovih izbavljali.
28 But when they had rest, they did evil again before thee; and thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies, and they had dominion over them; and again they cried unto thee, and thou heardest [them] from the heavens, and many times didst thou deliver them, according to thy mercies.
Ali čim bi se smirili, opet su pred tobom zlo činili, a ti si ih puštao u ruke neprijatelja njihovih, koji su ih mučili. I opet su k tebi vapili i ti si ih s neba uslišio: u milosrđu svojem mnogo si ih puta izbavio.
29 And thou testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law; but they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man do, he shall live in them); and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
Ti si ih opominjao da se vrate tvome Zakonu: ali se oni uzjoguniše, nepokorni tvojim zapovijedima; griješili su protiv naredaba tvojih, a čovjek živi kad ih obdržava. Leđa su izvlačili, šije ukrućivali i nisu slušali.
30 And many years didst thou forbear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; but they would not give ear: and thou gavest them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
Mnogo si godina bio strpljiv s njima i svojim si ih Duhom opominjao po službi svojih proroka; no nisu slušali. Tada si ih predao u ruke naroda zemaljskih.
31 Nevertheless for thy manifold mercies' sake, thou didst not make a full end of them nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
U velikom milosrđu svojem ti ih nisi uništio, ni ostavio ih nisi, jer si ti Bog milostiv i pun samilosti.
32 And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and loving-kindness, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the days of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
A sada, o Bože naš, veliki Bože, jaki i strašni, koji čuvaš Savez i dobrohotnost, neka ne bude pred licem tvojim neznatna sva ova nevolja koja je snašla nas, kraljeve naše i knezove, svećenike i proroke naše, očeve naše i sav narod tvoj od vremena asirskih kraljeva pa do danas.
33 But thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast acted according to truth, and we have done wickedly.
Ti si pravedan u svemu što nas je snašlo, jer si ti pokazao vjernost, a mi zloću svoju.
34 And our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers, have not performed thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
Kraljevi naši i knezovi, svećenici i oci naši nisu vršili Zakona tvoga, nisu osluškivali naredaba tvojih i opomena koje si im davao.
35 And they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land that thou didst set before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
Premda su bili u svom kraljevstvu, u velikim dobrima koja si im činio, u prostranoj i plodnoj zemlji koju si im dao, oni ti nisu služili i od svojih zlih djela nisu se odvraćali.
36 Behold, we are servants this day, and the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are bondmen in it.
Mi smo danas, evo, robovi i u zemlji koju si bio dao ocima našim da uživaju njene plodove i njena dobra, evo u njoj mi robujemo.
37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure; and we are in great distress.
Njeni obilni prihodi idu kraljevima koje si nam postavio zbog grijeha naših, i gospodare oni po volji svojoj tjelesima našim i stokom našom. Ah, u velikoj smo nevolji!
38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests are at the sealing.
I zbog svega toga obvezujemo se pismeno na vjernost.” Na zapečaćenoj ispravi stajala su imena naših knezova, levita i svećenika ...
