Nehemiah 5

1 and to be cry [the] people and woman: wife their great: large to(wards) brother: compatriot their [the] Jew

١ وَارْتَفَعَ صُرَاخُ الشَّعْبِ وَنِسَائِهِمْ بِالشَّكْوَى احْتِجَاجاً عَلَى إِخْوَتِهِمِ الْيَهُودِ الْمُسْتَغِلِّينَ،

2 and there which to say son: child our and daughter our we many and to take: take grain and to eat and to live

٢ فَمِنْ قَائِلٍ: إِنَّنَا رُزِقْنَا بَنِينَ وَبَنَاتٍ كَثِيرِينَ، دَعْنَا نَأْخُذُ قَمْحاً حَتَّى نَأْكُلَ وَنَحْيَا.

3 and there which to say land: country our and vineyard our and house: home our we to pledge and to take: take grain in/on/with famine

٣ وَمِنْ قَائِلٍ: إِنَّا رَهَنَّا حُقُولَنَا وَكُرُومَنَا وَبُيُوتَنَا لِقَاءَ الْحِنْطَةِ لِنَدْفَعَ عَنَّا الْجُوعَ.

4 and there which to say to borrow silver: money to/for tribute [the] king land: country our and vineyard our

٤ وَمِنْ قَائِلٍ: إِنَّنَا اسْتَقْرَضْنَا فِضَّةً لِنَدْفَعَ خَرَاجَ الْمَلِكِ عَلَى حُقُولِنَا وَكُرُومِنَا،

5 and now like/as flesh brother: compatriot our flesh our like/as son: child their son: child our and behold we to subdue [obj] son: child our and [obj] daughter our to/for servant/slave and there from daughter our to subdue and nothing to/for god: power hand: power our and land: country our and vineyard our to/for another

٥ وَمَعَ أَنَّ لَحْمَنَا مِنْ لَحْمِ إِخْوَتِنَا وَأَوْلادَنَا كَأَوْلادِهِمْ، فَإِنَّ عَلَيْنَا أَنْ نُخْضِعَ أَبْنَاءَنَا وَبَنَاتِنَا لِلْعُبُودِيَّةِ، بَلْ إِنَّ بَعْضَ بَنَاتِنَا مُسْتَعْبَدَاتٌ، وَلَيْسَ بِيَدِنَا حِيلَةٌ، لأَنَّ حُقُولَنَا وَكُرُومَنَا مَرْهُونَةٌ لِلآخَرِينَ.

6 and to be incensed to/for me much like/as as which to hear: hear [obj] outcry their and [obj] [the] word [the] these

٦ وَحِينَ سَمِعْتُ صُرَاخَ شَكْوَاهُمْ وَكَلامَهُمْ غَضِبْتُ جِدّاً.

7 and to advise heart my upon me and to contend [emph?] with [the] noble and with [the] ruler and to say [emph?] to/for them interest man: anyone in/on/with brother: compatriot his you(m. p.) (to lift: aid *Q(K)*) and to give: make upon them assembly great: large

٧ وَبَعْدَ أَنْ تَدَبَّرْتُ الأَمْرَ فِي نَفْسِي عَنَّفْتُ الأَشْرَافَ وَالوُلاةَ قَائِلاً: «إِنَّكُمْ تَأْخُذُونَ الرِّبَا مِنْ إِخْوَتِكُمْ». ثُمَّ عَقَدْتُ اجْتِمَاعاً عَظِيماً لِمُقَاضَاتِهِمْ.

8 and to say [emph?] to/for them we to buy [obj] brother: compatriot our [the] Jew [the] to sell to/for nation like/as sufficiency in/on/with us and also you(m. p.) to sell [obj] brother: compatriot your and to sell to/for us and be quiet and not to find word

٨ وَقُلْتُ لَهُمْ: «إِنَّنَا بِحَسَبِ طَاقَتِنَا افْتَدَيْنَا بِالأَمْوَالِ إِخْوَتَنَا الْيَهُودَ الَّذِينَ بِيعُوا لِلأُمَمِ، وَهَا أَنْتُمْ تَبِيعُونَ إِخْوَتَكُمْ لَهُمْ، وَهُمْ يَعُودُونَ فَيَبِيعُونَهُمْ لَنَا». فَسَكَتُوا وَلَمْ يَجِدُوا جَوَاباً.

9 (and to say *Q(K)*) not pleasant [the] word: thing which you(m. p.) to make: do not in/on/with fear God our to go: walk from reproach [the] nation enemy our

٩ ثُمَّ اسْتَطْرَدْتُ: «هَذَا تَصَرُّفٌ سَيِّئٌ. أَلا تَسْلُكُونَ فِي خَوْفِ إِلَهِنَا تَفَادِياً لِتَعْيِيرِ الأُمَمِ أَعْدَائِنَا؟

10 and also I brother: male-sibling my and youth my to lend in/on/with them silver: money and grain to leave: forsake please [obj] [the] interest [the] this

١٠ لَقَدْ أَقْرَضْتُ أَنَا وَغِلْمَانِي الشَّعْبَ أَيْضاً فِضَّةً وَقَمْحاً، فَلْنَمْتَنِعْ عَنْ تَقَاضِي الرِّبَا.

11 to return: return please to/for them like/as [the] day land: country their vineyard their olive their and house: home their and hundred [the] silver: money and [the] grain [the] new wine and [the] oil which you(m. p.) to lend in/on/with them

١١ رُدُّوا لَهُمْ هَذَا الْيَوْمَ حُقُولَهُمْ وَكُرُومَهُمْ وَزَيْتُونَهُمْ وَبُيُوتَهُمْ، وَالنِّسْبَةَ الْمِئَوِيَّةَ مِنَ الرِّبَا الَّتِي تَتَقَاضَوْنَهَا عَلَى الْفِضَّةِ وَالْقَمْحِ وَالْخَمْرِ وَالزَّيْتِ».

12 and to say to return: rescue and from them not to seek so to make: do like/as as which you(m. s.) to say and to call: call to [obj] [the] priest and to swear them to/for to make: do like/as Chronicles [the] this

١٢ فَأَجَابُوا: «نَرُدُّ وَلا نُطَالِبُهُمْ بِرِبَا، صَانِعِينَ كُلَّ مَا قُلْتَ». فَاسْتَدْعَيْتُ الْكَهَنَةَ وَاسْتَحْلَفْتُهُمْ أَنْ يَعْمَلُوا بِمُقْتَضَى هَذَا التَّعَهُّدِ،

13 also bosom my to shake and to say [emph?] thus to shake [the] God [obj] all [the] man which not to arise: establish [obj] [the] word: promised [the] this from house: home his and from toil his and thus to be to shake and worthless and to say all [the] assembly amen and to boast: praise [obj] LORD and to make: do [the] people like/as Chronicles [the] this

١٣ ثُمَّ نَفَضْتُ حِجْرِي قَائِلاً: «هَكَذَا يَنْفُضُ اللهُ كُلَّ إِنْسَانٍ لَا يُنَفِّذُ هَذَا التَّعَهُّدَ فِي بَيْتِهِ وَفِي عَمَلِهِ، فَيُصْبِحُ شَرِيداً مُعْدَماً». فَأَجَابَتْ كُلُّ الْجَمَاعَةِ: «آمِين». وَسَبَّحَتِ الرَّبَّ. وَنَفَّذَ الشَّعْبُ نَصَّ هَذَا التَّعَهُّدِ.

14 also from day which to command [obj] me to/for to be governor their in/on/with land: country/planet Judah from year twenty and till year thirty and two to/for Artaxerxes [the] king year two ten I and brother: male-sibling my food: allowance [the] governor not to eat

١٤ كَمَا أَنَّنِي مُنْذُ أَنْ عُيِّنْتُ وَالِياً فِي أَرْضِ يَهُوذَا، مِنْ مُسْتَهَلِّ السَّنَةِ الْعِشْرِينَ مِنْ حُكْمِ أَرْتَحْشَشْتَا الْمَلِكِ، إِلَى السَّنَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ وَالثَّلاثِينَ، أَيْ طَوَالَ اثْنَتَيْ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً لَمْ آخُذْ مِنَ الشَّعْبِ الضَّرَائِبَ الْمُخَصَّصَةَ لِنَفَقَاتِ الْوَالِي لأَعِيشَ مِنْهَا أَنَا وَمُوَظَّفِيَّ،

15 and [the] governor [the] first: previous which to/for face: before my to honor: heavy upon [the] people and to take: take from them in/on/with food: allowance and wine after silver: money shekel forty also youth their to domineer upon [the] people and I not to make: do so from face: because fear God

١٥ عَلَى نَقِيضِ الْوُلاةِ السَّابِقِينَ الَّذِينَ ثَقَّلُوا الضَّرَائِبَ عَلَى الشَّعْبِ، وَابْتَزُّوا مِنْهُمْ خُبْزاً وَخَمْراً، فَضْلاً عَنْ أَرْبَعِينَ شَاقِلاً مِنَ الْفِضَّةِ (نَحْوِ أَرْبَعِ مِئَةٍ وَثَمَانِينَ جِرَاماً). كَمَا تَسَلَّطَ رِجَالُهُمْ عَلَى الشَّعْبِ. أَمَّا أَنَا فَلَمْ أَفْعَلْ هَكَذَا مِنْ خَوْفِ اللهِ،

16 and also in/on/with work [the] wall [the] this to strengthen: persevere and land: country not to buy and all youth my to gather there upon [the] work

١٦ وَبَدَلاً مِنْ ذَلِكَ كَرَّسْتُ نَفْسِي لِلْعَمَلِ فِي بِنَاءِ هَذَا السُّورِ، فَلَمْ أَشْتَرِ حَقْلاً، وَتَضَافَرَ رِجَالِي هُنَاكَ لِلْعَمَلِ عَلَى إِعَادَةِ إِنْشَائِهِ.

17 and [the] Jew and [the] ruler hundred and fifty man and [the] to come (in): come to(wards) us from [the] nation which around us upon table my

١٧ كَمَا شَارَكَنِي عَلَى مَائِدَتِي مِئَةٌ وَخَمْسُونَ رَجُلاً مِنَ الْيَهُودِ وَالْمُوَظَّفِينَ، فَضْلاً عَنِ الْوُفُودِ الْقَادِمَةِ إِلَيْنَا مِنَ الأُمَمِ الْمُجَاوِرَةِ،

18 and which to be to make: do to/for day one cattle one flock six to purify and bird to make: do to/for me and between ten day in/on/with all wine to/for to multiply and with this food: allowance [the] governor not to seek for to honor: heavy [the] service upon [the] people [the] this

١٨ فَكَانَ يُعَدُّ لِي فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ ثَوْرٌ وَسِتَّةٌ مِنْ خِيَارِ الْغَنَمِ عَلاوَةً عَلَى الطَّيْرِ، وَكَمِّيَّةٌ كَبِيرَةٌ مِنْ جَمِيعِ أَصْنَافِ الْخُمُورِ كُلَّ عَشَرَةِ أَيَّامٍ، وَمَعَ هَذَا لَمْ آخُذِ الضَّرَائِبَ الْمُخَصَّصَةَ لِنَفَقَاتِ الْوَالِي، لأَنَّ وَطْأَةَ الضَّرَائِبِ كَانَتْ ثَقِيلَةً عَلَى هَذَا الشَّعْبِ.

19 to remember [emph?] to/for me God my to/for welfare all which to make: do upon [the] people [the] this

١٩ فَاذْكُرْ لِي يَا إِلَهِي مَا صَنَعْتُهُ مِنْ خَيْرٍ لِهَذَا الشَّعْبِ، وَأَحْسِنْ إِلَيَّ.