Nehemiah 2
1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
A mjeseca Nisana godine dvadesete Artakserksa cara bijaše vino pred njim, i ja uzev vino dadoh ga caru. A preðe ne bijah neveseo pred njim.
2 And the king said unto me: 'Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart.' Then I was very sore afraid.
I reèe mi car: što si lica nevesela, kad nijesi bolestan? nije drugo nego tuga u srcu. A ja se uplaših vrlo.
3 And I said unto the king: 'Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?'
I rekoh caru: da je živ car dovijeka! kako ne bih bio lica nevesela, kad je grad gdje su grobovi mojih otaca opustio i vrata mu ognjem spaljena?
4 Then the king said unto me: 'For what dost thou make request?' So I prayed to the God of heaven.
A car mi reèe: šta hoæeš? Tada se pomolih Bogu nebeskomu,
5 And I said unto the king: 'If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.'
I rekoh caru: ako je ugodno caru i ako ti je mio sluga tvoj, pošlji me u Judeju u grad gdje su grobovi otaca mojih da ga sagradim.
6 And the king said unto me, the queen also sitting by him: 'For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return?' So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
A car mi reèe, a žena njegova sjeðaše do njega: koliko ti vremena treba na put, i kad æeš se vratiti? I bi ugodno caru, i pusti me kad mu kazah vrijeme.
7 Moreover I said unto the king: 'If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through till I come unto Judah;
Potom rekoh caru: ako je ugodno caru, da mi se da knjiga na knezove preko rijeke da me prate dokle ne doðem u Judeju,
8 and a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's park, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertaineth to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into.' And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
I knjiga na Asafa èuvara šume careve da mi da drva za brvna na vrata od dvora uz dom Božji i za zid gradski i za kuæu u koju æu uæi. I dade mi car, jer dobra ruka Boga mojega bješe nada mnom.
9 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.
I tako doðoh ka knezovima preko rijeke, i dadoh im knjige careve. A car posla sa mnom vojvode i konjike.
10 And when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, for that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
A kad to èu Sanavalat Oronjanin i Tovija sluga Amonac, bi im vrlo mrsko što doðe èovjek da se postara za dobro sinovima Izrailjevijem.
11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Potom doðoh u Jerusalim, i bih ondje tri dana.
12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
Pa ustah noæu s nekoliko ljudi, a nikomu ne kazah što mi je Bog moj dao u srce da uèinim u Jerusalimu; i ne imah kljuseta sa sobom osim onoga na kom jahah.
13 And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the dragon's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
I izidoh noæu na vrata od doline, na izvor zmajevski, i na vrata gnojna, i razgledah zidove Jerusalimske kako bjehu razvaljeni i kako mu vrata bjehu ognjem popaljena.
14 Then I went on to the fountain gate and to the king's pool; but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
Otuda proðoh na izvorska vrata i na carsko jezero, a ondje ne bješe mjesta da kljuse poda mnom prijeðe.
15 Then went I up in the night in the valley, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
Zato jahah uz potok po noæi i razgledah zid, pa se vratih na vrata od doline, i tako doðoh natrag.
16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
Ali poglavari ne znadijahu kuda sam išao ni šta sam radio, jer do tada ne bijah ništa rekao ni Judejcima ni sveštenicima ni knezovima ni poglavarima ni drugima koji upravljahu poslom.
17 Then said I unto them: 'Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire; come and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.'
Zato im rekoh: vidite u kakvom smo zlu, Jerusalim pust i vrata mu popaljena ognjem; dajte da zidamo zidove Jerusalimske, da više ne budemo rug.
18 And I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also of the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said: 'Let us rise up and build.' So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
I kazah im kako je dobra ruka Boga mojega nada mnom i rijeèi careve koje mi je rekao. Tada rekoše: ustanimo i zidajmo. I ukrijepiše im se ruke na dobro.
19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said: 'What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?'
A kad to èu Sanavalat Oronjanin i Tovija sluga Amonac i Gisem Arapin, potsmijevaše nam se i rugaše nam se govoreæi: šta to radite? da se neæete odmetnuti caru?
20 Then answered I them, and said unto them: 'The God of heaven, He will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build; but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.'
A ja im odgovorih i rekoh: Bog nebeski daæe nam sreæu, a mi sluge njegove ustasmo i zidamo; ali vi nemate dijela ni prava ni spomena u Jerusalimu.
