Nehemiah 2
1 And it comes to pass, in the month of Nisan, the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, wine [is] before him, and I lift up the wine, and give to the king, and I had not been sad before him;
Pripetilo se je v mesecu nisánu, v dvanajstem letu kralja Artakserksa, da je bilo pred njim vino. Vzel sem vino in ga izročil kralju. Torej poprej v njegovi prisotnosti nisem bil žalosten.
2 and the king says to me, “Why [is] your face sad, and you not sick? This is nothing except sadness of heart”; and I fear very much,
Zato mi je kralj rekel: »Zakaj je tvoje obličje žalostno, ker vidim, da nisi bolan? To ni nič drugega kakor bridkost srca.« Potem sem bil zelo boleče prestrašen
3 and say to the king, “Let the king live for all time! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of the graves of my fathers, [is] a desolation, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”
in rekel kralju: »Naj kralj živi na veke. Zakaj naj bi moje obličje ne bilo žalostno, ko [pa] mesto, kraj mavzolejev mojih očetov, leži opustošeno in so njegova velika vrata použita z ognjem?«
4 And the king says to me, “For what are you seeking?” And I pray to the God of the heavens,
Potem mi je kralj odgovoril: »Za kaj delaš zahtevo?« Tako sem molil k Bogu nebes.
5 and say to the king, “If [it is] good to the king, and if your servant is pleasing before you, that you send me to Judah, to the city of the graves of my fathers, and I have built it.”
Kralju sem rekel: »Če kralju ugaja in je tvoj služabnik našel naklonjenost v tvojem pogledu, da bi me hotel poslati v Judejo, v mesto mavzolejev mojih očetov, da ga lahko zgradim.«
6 And the king says to me (and the queen is sitting near him), “How long is your journey? And when do you return?” And it is good before the king, and he sends me away, and I set to him a time.
Kralj mi je rekel (tudi kraljica je sedela ob njem): »Kako dolgo bo trajalo tvoje potovanje? In kdaj se boš vrnil?« Tako je kralju ugajalo, da me pošlje, in določil sem mu čas.
7 And I say to the king, “If [it is] good to the king, let letters be given to me for the governors beyond the River, that they let me pass over until I come to Judah:
Poleg tega sem kralju rekel: »Če to ugaja kralju, naj mi bodo dana pisma, za voditelje onkraj reke, da me lahko pošljejo preko, dokler ne pridem v Judejo,
8 and a letter to Asaph, keeper of the paradise that the king has, that he give to me trees for beams [for] the gates of the palace that the house has, and for the wall of the city, and for the house into which I enter”; and the king gives to me, according to the good hand of my God on me.
in pismo Asáfu, čuvaju kraljevega gozda, da mi bo lahko dal les, da naredim bruna za velika vrata palače, ki so spadala k hiši in za mestno obzidje in za hišo, v katero bom vstopil.« In kralj mi je zagotovil, glede na dobro roko mojega Boga nad menoj.
9 And I come to the governors beyond the River, and give to them the letters of the king; and the king sends with me heads of a force, and horsemen;
Potem sem prišel k voditeljem preko reke in jim dal kraljeva pisma. Torej kralj je z menoj poslal vojne poveljnike in konjenike.
10 and Sanballat the Horonite hears, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and it is evil to them—a great evil—that a man has come to seek good for the sons of Israel.
Ko sta Sanbalát Horónčan in služabnik Tobija, Amónec, slišala o tem, ju je to silno užalostilo, da je tja prišel človek, da išče blaginjo Izraelovih otrok.
11 And I come to Jerusalem, and I am there three days,
Tako sem prišel v Jeruzalem in bil tam tri dni.
12 and I rise by night, I and a few men with me, and have not declared to a man what my God is giving to my heart to do for Jerusalem, and there is no beast with me except the beast on which I am riding.
Vstal sem ponoči, jaz in nekaj malega mož z menoj. Niti nisem nobenemu možu povedal, kaj je Bog položil na moje srce, da storim pri Jeruzalemu. Niti ni bila z menoj nobena žival, razen živali, na kateri sem jahal.
13 And I go out through the Valley Gate by night, and to the front of the Dragon Fountain, and to the Refuse Gate, and I am inspecting the walls of Jerusalem, that are broken down, and its gates consumed with fire.
Ponoči sem odšel ven pri Dolinskih velikih vratih, celo pred zmajevim vodnjakom in do gnojne odprtine in ogledal sem si jeruzalemske zidove, ki so bili porušeni in njegova velika vrata, ki so bila použita z ognjem.
14 And I pass over to the Fountain Gate, and to the King’s Pool, and there is no place for the beast under me to pass over,
Potem sem odšel naprej do velikih studenčnih vrat in do kraljevega ribnika, toda tam ni bilo prostora za žival, ki je bila pod menoj, da gre mimo.
15 and I am going up through the brook by night, and am inspecting the wall, and turn back, and come in through the Valley Gate, and turn back.
Potem sem ponoči odšel gor, poleg potoka in gledal obzidje in se obrnil nazaj in vstopil pri velikih dolinskih vratih in tako sem se vrnil.
16 And the prefects have not known to where I have gone, and what I am doing; and to the Jews, and to the priests, and to the nobles, and to the prefects, and to the rest of those doing the work, until now I have not declared [it];
Vladarji niso vedeli, kam sem odšel ali kaj sem storil, niti do tega trenutka tega še nisem povedal Judom, niti duhovnikom, niti plemičem, niti vladarjem, niti preostalim, ki so opravljali delo.
17 and I say to them, “You are seeing the evil that we are in, in that Jerusalem [is] desolate, and its gates have been burned with fire; come and we build the wall of Jerusalem, and we are not a reproach anymore.”
Potem sem jim rekel: »Vi vidite stisko, v kateri smo, kako Jeruzalem leži opustošen in so njegova velika vrata požgana z ognjem. Pridite in gradimo jeruzalemsko obzidje, da ne bomo več v grajo.«
18 And I declare to them the hand of my God that is good on me, and also the words of the king that he said to me, and they say, “Let us rise, and we have built”; and they strengthen their hands for good.
Potem sem jim povedal o roki svojega Boga, ki je bila dobra nad menoj, kot tudi kraljeve besede, ki mi jih je govoril. Rekli so: »Vzdignimo se in gradimo.« Tako so okrepili svoje roke za to dobro delo.
19 And Sanballat the Horonite hears, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, “What [is] this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
Toda ko so Sanbalát Horónčan in služabnik Tobija, Amónec in Arabec Gešem to slišali, so se smejali do norčevanja, nas prezirali in rekli: »Kaj je ta stvar, ki jo počnete. Ali se hočete upreti zoper kralja?«
20 And I return them word, and say to them, “The God of the heavens—He gives prosperity to us, and we His servants rise and have built; and to you there is no portion, and right, and memorial in Jerusalem.”
Potem sem jim odgovoril in jim rekel: »Bog nebes, on nas bo naredil uspešne, zato bomo mi, njegovi služabniki, vstali in gradili. Toda vi nimate deleža niti pravice niti spomina v Jeruzalemu.«
