Nehemiah 2
1 And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king: that wine was before him, and I took up the wine, and gave it to the king: and I was as one languishing away before his face.
А месеца Нисана године двадесете Артаксеркса цара беше вино пред њим, и ја узевши вино дадох га цару. А пре не бејах невесео пред њим.
2 And the king said to me: Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou dost not appear to be sick? this is not without cause, but some evil, I know not what, is in thy heart. And I was seized with an exceeding great fear:
И рече ми цар: Што си лица невеселог, кад ниси болестан? Није друго него туга у срцу. А ја се уплаших врло.
3 And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my countenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire?
И рекох цару: Да је жив цар до века! Како не бих био лица невеселог, кад је град где су гробови мојих отаца опустео и врата му огњем спаљена?
4 Then the king said to me: For what dost thou make request? And I prayed to the God of heaven,
А цар ми рече: Шта хоћеш? Тада се помолих Богу небеском,
5 And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, and if thy servant hath found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldst send me into Judea to the city of the sepulchre of my father, and I will build it.
И рекох цару: Ако је угодно цару и ако ти је мио слуга твој, пошљи ме у Јудеју у град где су гробови отаца мојих да га саградим.
6 And the king said to me, and the queen that sat by him: For how long shall thy journey be, and when wilt thou return? And it pleased the king, and he sent me: and I fixed him a time.
А цар ми рече, а жена његова сеђаше до њега: Колико ти времена треба на пут, и кад ћеш се вратити? И би угодно цару, и пусти ме кад му казах време.
7 And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, let him give me letters to the governors of the country beyond the river, that they convey me over, till I come into Judea:
Потом рекох цару: Ако је угодно цару, да ми се да књига на кнезове преко реке да ме прате докле не дођем у Јудеју,
8 And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, to give me timber that I may cover the gates of the tower of the house, and the walls of the city, and the house that I shall enter into. And the king gave me according to the good hand of my God with me.
И књига на Асафа, чувара шуме цареве да ми да дрва за брвна на врата од двора уз дом Божји и за зид градски и за кућу у коју ћу ући. И даде ми цар, јер добра рука Бога мог беше нада мном.
9 And I came to the governors of the country beyond the river, and gave them the king’s letters. And the king had sent with me captains of soldiers, and horsemen.
И тако дођох са кнезовима преко реке, и дадох им књиге цареве. А цар посла са мном војводе и коњике.
10 And Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, heard it, and it grieved them exceedingly, that a man was come, who sought the prosperity of the children of Israel.
А кад то чу Санавалат Ороњанин и Товија, слуга Амонац, би им врло мрско што дође човек да се постара за добро синовима Израиљевим.
11 And I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Потом дођох у Јерусалим, и бих онде три дана.
12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me, and I told not any man what God had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem, and there was no beast with me, but the beast that I rode upon.
Па устах ноћу с неколико људи, а ником не казах шта ми је Бог мој дао у срце да учиним у Јерусалиму; и не имах кљусета са собом осим оног на коме јахах.
13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and before the dragon fountain, and to the dung gate, and I viewed the wall of Jerusalem which was broken down, and the gates thereof which were consumed with fire.
И изиђох ноћу на врата од долине, на извор змајевски, и на врата гнојна, и разгледах зидове јерусалимске како беху разваљени и како му врата беху огњем попаљена.
14 And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s aqueduct, and there was no place for the beast on which I rode to pass.
Отуда прођох на изворска врата и на царско језеро, а онде не беше места да кљусе пода мном пређе.
15 And I went up in the night by the torrent, and viewed the wall, and going back I came to the gate of the valley, and returned.
Зато јахах уз поток по ноћи и разгледах зид, па се вратих на врата од долине, и тако дођох натраг.
16 But the magistrates knew not whither I went, or what I did: neither had I as yet told any thing to the Jews, or to the priests, or to the nobles, or to the magistrates, or to the rest that did the work.
Али поглавари не знаху куда сам ишао ни шта сам радио, јер дотада не бејах ништа рекао ни Јудејцима ни свештеницима ни кнезовима ни поглаварима ни другима који управљаху послом.
17 Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no longer a reproach.
Зато им рекох: Видите у каквом смо злу, Јерусалим пуст и врата му попаљена огњем; дајте да зидамо зидове јерусалимске, да више не будемо руг.
18 And I shewed them how the hand of my God was good with me, and the king’s words, which he had spoken to me, and I said: Let us rise up, and build. And their hands were strengthened in good.
И казах им како је добра рука Бога мог нада мном и речи цареве које ми је рекао. Тада рекоше: Устанимо и зидајмо. И укрепише им се руке на добро.
19 But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, and Gossem the Arabian heard of it, and they scoffed at us, and despised us, and said: What is this thing that you do? are you going to rebel against the king?
А кад то чу Санавалат Ороњанин и Товија, слуга Амонац и Гисем Арапин, подсмеваше нам се и ругаше нам се говорећи: Шта то радите? Да се нећете одметнути цару?
20 And I answered them, and said to them: The God of heaven he helpeth us, and we are his servants: let us rise up and build: but you have no part, nor justice, nor remembrance in Jerusalem.
А ја им одговорих и рекох: Бог небески даће нам срећу, а ми, слуге Његове устасмо и зидамо; али ви немате дела ни права ни спомена у Јерусалиму.
