Nehemiah 9

1 In the foure and twentieth day of this moneth the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackecloth, and earth vpon them.

Dvadeset i četvrtoga dana toga mjeseca skupiše se Izraelci na post, u pokorničkim vrećama i posuti prašinom.

2 (And they that were of the seede of Israel were separated from all the strangers) and they stoode and confessed their sinnes 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 vp in their place and read in the booke of the Lawe of the Lord their GOD foure times on the day, and they confessed and worshipped the Lord their God foure times.

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 stoode vp vpon the staires of the Leuites Ieshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cryed with a loud voyce vnto the Lord 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 Leuites said, euen Ieshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodiiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah, Stande vp, and praise the Lord your God for euer, and euer, and let them praise thy glorious Name, O God, which excelleth aboue all thankesgiuing 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 Lord alone: thou hast made heauen, and the heauen of all heauens, with all their hoste, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and al that are in them, and thou preseruest them all, and the host of the heauen 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, O Lord, the God, that hast chosen Abram, and broughtest him out of Vr in Caldea, and madest his name 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 a couenant with him, to giue vnto his seede the lande of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, and Perizzites, and Iebusites, and Girgashites, and hast performed thy wordes, because thou art iust.

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 Thou hast also considered the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the red Sea,

Nevolju si otaca naših u Egiptu vidio, i vapaj si njihov čuo kraj Mora crvenoga.

10 And shewed tokens and wonders vpon Pharaoh, and on all his seruants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudely against them: therefore thou madest thee a Name, as appeareth 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 For thou didest breake vp the Sea before them, and they went through the middes of the Sea on dry lande: and those that pursued them, hast thou cast into the bottomes as a stone, in the mightie 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 leddest them in the day with a pillar of a cloude, and in the night with a pillar of fire to giue them light in the way that they went.

Stupom oblaka danju si ih vodio, a noću si stupom ognjenim svijetlio im po putu kojim su hodili.

13 Thou camest downe also vpon mount Sinai, and spakest vnto them from heauen, and gauest them right iudgements, and true lawes, ordinances and good commandements,

Na goru si Sinajsku sišao i s neba im govorio; i dao si im pravedne naredbe, čvrste zakone, zapovijedi izvrsne i uredbe.

14 And declaredst vnto them thine holy Sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, and ordinances, and lawes, by the hande of Moses thy seruant:

Ti si im objavio svoju svetu subotu, zapovijedi, naredbe i Zakon si im propisao po glasu sluge svoga Mojsija.

15 And gauest them bread from heauen for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rocke for their thirst: and promisedst them that they shoulde goe in, and take possession of the land: for the which thou haddest lift vp thine hand for to giue 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 and our fathers behaued them selues proudely, and hardened their neck, so that they hearkened not vnto thy commandements,

Ali se oni i oci naši uzjoguniše, vratove ukrutiše i zapovijedi tvojih nisu slušali.

17 But refused to obey, and would not remember thy marueilous works that thou haddest done for them, but hardened their neckes, and had in their heads to returne to their bondage by their rebellion: but thou, O God of mercies, gratious and full of compassion, of long suffring and of great mercie, yet 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 Moreouer, when they made them a molten calfe (and said, This is thy God that brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt) and committed great blasphemies,

Čak su načinili tele saliveno, 'To bog je tvoj', rekoše, 'koji te izveo iz Egipta!' I teško su hulili,

19 Yet thou for thy great mercies forsookest them not in the wildernesse: the pillar of the cloude departed not from them by day to leade them the way, neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way whereby they should goe.

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 gauest also thy good Spirite to instruct them, and withheldest not thy MAN from their mouth, and gauest 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 Thou didest also feede them fourtie yeres in ye wildernes: they lacked nothing: their clothes waxed not old, and their feete 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 gauest them kingdomes and people, and scatteredst them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon and the land of ye King of Heshbon, and 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 thou diddest multiplie their children, like the starres of the heauen, and broughtest them into the lande, whereof thou haddest spoken vnto their fathers, that they should goe, and possesse 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 So the children went in, and possessed the lande, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the lande, euen the Canaanites, and gauest them into their handes, with their Kings and the people of the lande, that they might do with them what 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 tooke their strong cities and the fat lande, and possessed houses, full of all goods, cisternes digged out, vineyardes, and oliues, and trees for foode in abundance, and they did eate, and were filled, and became fat, and liued in pleasure through thy great goodnesse.

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 Yet they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy Lawe behinde their backes, and slewe thy Prophets (which protested among them to turne them vnto thee) and committed great blasphemies.

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 Therefore thou deliueredst them into the hande of their enemies that vexed them: yet in the time of their affliction, when they cryed vnto thee, thou heardest them from the heauen, and through thy great mercies thou gauest them sauiours, who saued them out of the hande of their aduersaries.

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 returned to doe euill before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hande of their enemies, so that they had the dominion ouer them, yet when they conuerted and cryed vnto thee, thou heardest them from heauen, and deliueredst them according to thy great mercies many times,

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 protestedst among them that thou mightest bring them againe vnto thy Lawe: but they behaued them selues proudely, and hearkened not vnto thy commandements, but sinned against thy iudgements (which a man should doe and liue in them) and pulled away the shoulder, and were stiffenecked, and woulde not heare.

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 Yet thou diddest forbeare them many yeeres, and protestedst among them by thy Spirite, euen by the hande of thy Prophets, but they woulde not heare: therefore gauest thou them into the hande of the people 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 Yet for thy great mercies thou hast not consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gracious and mercifull God.

U velikom milosrđu svojem ti ih nisi uništio, ni ostavio ih nisi, jer si ti Bog milostiv i pun samilosti.

32 Nowe therefore our God, thou great God, mightie and terrible, that keepest couenant and mercie, let not all the affliction that hath come vnto vs, seeme a litle before thee, that is, to our Kings, to our princes, and to our Priests, and to our Prophets, and to our fathers, and to all thy people since the time of the Kings of Asshur vnto 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 Surely thou art iust in all that is come vpon vs: for thou hast dealt truely, but we haue done wickedly.

Ti si pravedan u svemu što nas je snašlo, jer si ti pokazao vjernost, a mi zloću svoju.

34 And our kings and our princes, our Priests and our fathers haue not done thy Lawe, nor regarded thy commandements nor thy protestations, wherewith thou hast protested among 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 haue not serued thee in their kingdome, and in thy great goodnesse that thou shewedst vnto them, and in the large and fat lande which thou diddest set before them, and haue not conuerted from their euill workes.

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 Beholde, we are seruants this day, and the lande that thou gauest vnto our fathers, to eate the fruite thereof, and the goodnesse thereof, beholde, we are seruants therein.

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 yeeldeth much fruit vnto the kings whom thou hast set ouer vs, because of our sinnes: and they haue dominion ouer our bodyes and ouer our cattell at their pleasure, and we are in great affliction.

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 Now because of all this we make a sure couenant, and write it, and our princes, our Leuites and our Priestes seale vnto it.

I zbog svega toga obvezujemo se pismeno na vjernost.” Na zapečaćenoj ispravi stajala su imena naših knezova, levita i svećenika ...