Nehemiah 4
1 But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
参巴拉听见我们修造城墙就发怒，大大恼恨，嗤笑犹大人，
2 And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, which are burned?"
对他弟兄和撒马利亚的军兵说：“这些软弱的犹大人做什么呢？要保护自己吗？要献祭吗？要一日成功吗？要从土堆里拿出火烧的石头再立墙吗？”
3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, "What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall."
亚扪人多比雅站在旁边，说：“他们所修造的石墙，就是狐狸上去也必跐倒。”
4 "Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their insults on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;
我们的 神啊，求你垂听，因为我们被藐视。求你使他们的毁谤归于他们的头上，使他们在掳到之地作为掠物。
5 do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders."
不要遮掩他们的罪孽，不要使他们的罪恶从你面前涂抹，因为他们在修造的人眼前惹动你的怒气。
6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.
这样，我们修造城墙，城墙就都连络，高至一半，因为百姓专心做工。
7 But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, then they were very angry;
参巴拉、多比雅、阿拉伯人、亚扪人、亚实突人听见修造耶路撒冷城墙，着手进行堵塞破裂的地方，就甚发怒。
8 and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion in it.
大家同谋要来攻击耶路撒冷，使城内扰乱。
9 But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
然而，我们祷告我们的 神，又因他们的缘故，就派人看守，昼夜防备。
10 Judah said, "The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall."
犹大人说：“灰土尚多，扛抬的人力气已经衰败，所以我们不能建造城墙。”
11 Our adversaries said, "They shall not know, neither see, until we come into their midst, and kill them, and cause the work to cease."
我们的敌人且说：“趁他们不知不见，我们进入他们中间，杀他们，使工作止住。”
12 It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, "Wherever you turn, they will attack us."
那靠近敌人居住的犹大人十次从各处来见我们，说：“你们必要回到我们那里。”
13 Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
所以我使百姓各按宗族拿刀、拿枪、拿弓站在城墙后边低洼的空处。
14 I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses."
我察看了，就起来对贵胄、官长，和其余的人说：“不要怕他们！当记念主是大而可畏的。你们要为弟兄、儿女、妻子、家产争战。”
15 It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work.
仇敌听见我们知道他们的心意，见 神也破坏他们的计谋，就不来了。我们都回到城墙那里，各做各的工。
16 It happened from that time forth that half of my servants would do the work and half of them held the spears, and the shields, and the bows, and the body armor; and the rulers stood behind the whole house of Judah
从那日起，我的仆人一半做工，一半拿枪、拿盾牌、拿弓、穿铠甲，官长都站在犹大众人的后边。
17 who were building the wall. And those who carried loads held their load with one hand and with the other held a weapon;
修造城墙的，扛抬材料的，都一手做工一手拿兵器。
18 and the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.
修造的人都腰间佩刀修造，吹角的人在我旁边。
19 I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, one far from another.
我对贵胄、官长，和其余的人说：“这工程浩大，我们在城墙上相离甚远；
20 Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us."
你们听见角声在哪里，就聚集到我们那里去。我们的 神必为我们争战。”
21 So we worked in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.
于是，我们做工，一半拿兵器，从天亮直到星宿出现的时候。
22 Likewise at the same time said I to the people, "Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day."
那时，我又对百姓说：“各人和他的仆人当在耶路撒冷住宿，好在夜间保守我们，白昼做工。”
23 So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.
这样，我和弟兄仆人，并跟从我的护兵都不脱衣服，出去打水也带兵器。
