Nehemiah 4
1 When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the city wall, he was very angry. He was enraged/furious. He made fun of us Jews.
| وقتی سنبلط شنید که ما یهودیان مشغول تعمیر حصار هستیم به شدت خشمگین شد و در حضور همراهان و افسران سامری، ما را مسخره کرده، گفت: «این یهودیان ضعیف چه می‌کنند؟ آیا می‌خواهند حصار را دوباره بسازند؟ آیا می‌خواهند قربانی تقدیم کنند؟ آیا می‌خواهند در یک روز کار را به پایان برسانند؟ آیا می‌خواهند سنگها را از میان توده‌های خاکروبه زنده کنند، سنگهایی که سوخته شده است؟» |
2 While his colleagues and officials of the army troops who had come from Samaria were listening, he said, “What do these feeble/pathetic Jews [think they] are doing? Do they think that if they offer enough/many sacrifices, [their gods will hear them and enable] them to finish building the wall in one day? The stones [that were in the wall previously have been weakened by] being burned in a fire. Those stones that they are pulling out of the rubbish/garbage heaps—do they think that they can make them strong again?” [RHQ]
3 Tobiah was [standing] beside Sanballat. He said, “That stone wall [that they are building] is very weak; so if even a fox climbed up on it, the wall would fall down!”
| طوبیای عَمّونی که در کنار او ایستاده بود با ریشخند گفت: «حصار آنقدر سست است که حتی اگر یک روباه از روی آن رد شود، خراب خواهد شد!» |
4 Then I prayed. I said, “Our God, hear us, because they are ridiculing us! Cause the words of their insults to fall back on them! Allow their enemies to come and capture them and force them to go to a foreign land!
| آنگاه من دعا کردم: «ای خدای ما، دعای ما را بشنو! ببین چگونه ما را مسخره می‌کنند. بگذار هر چه به ما می‌گویند بر سر خودشان بیاید. آنها را به سرزمینی بیگانه تبعید کن تا مزه اسیری را بچشند. |
5 They are guilty; they have [said things that] caused you to be angry while the people here who are building the wall are listening; so punish them!”
| این بدی ایشان را فراموش نکن و گناهانشان را نبخش، زیرا به ما که حصار را می‌سازیم اهانت کرده‌اند.» |
6 But after some time, we finished building the wall around the whole city, up to half as high as the first wall had been. We were able to do that because we worked very hard.
| پس به بازسازی حصار ادامه دادیم و چیزی نگذشت که نصف بلندی آن تمام شد، چون مردم با اشتیاق زیاد کار می‌کردند. |
7 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the men from Arabia, the people from the Ammon [people-group] and from Ashdod [city] heard that the work on the wall was continuing and that we were filling in the gaps in the wall, they became very angry.
| وقتی سنبلط، طوبیا، عربها، عمونی‌ها و اشدودی‌ها شنیدند که کار به سرعت پیش می‌رود و شکافهای دیوار تعمیر می‌شود، بسیار خشمگین شدند، |
8 They all planned to come and fight against the people of Jerusalem [MTY] and to cause trouble.
| و توطئه چیدند تا به اورشلیم حمله‌ور شده، اغتشاش برپا کنند. |
9 But we prayed to our God [to protect us], and we put men [around the walls] to guard [the city] day and night.
| ما به حضور خدای خود دعا کردیم و برای حفظ جان خود، در شهر نگهبانانی قرار دادیم تا شب و روز نگهبانی بدهند. |
10 Then the people of [MTY] Judah started to say, “The men who are working [on the wall] are becoming very tired. There is a lot of [heavy] rubble that we must remove; we ourselves cannot finish the work.
| از طرف دیگر، کارفرمایان گفتند: «کارگران خسته شده‌اند. آوار آنقدر زیاد است که ما به تنهایی نمی‌توانیم آن را جمع کنیم و حصار را تعمیر نماییم.» |
11 “Besides, our enemies are saying, ‘Before the Jews see us, we will swoop down on them and kill them and stop their work [on the wall]!’”
| در ضمن، دشمنان ما توطئه می‌چیدند که مخفیانه بر سر ما بریزند و نابودمان کنند و کار را متوقف سازند. |
12 The Jews who were living near our enemies came and told us many times, “You should leave the city and go to other places, in order that your enemies will not attack you!”
| یهودیانی که در شهرهای دشمنان ما زندگی می‌کردند بارها به ما هشدار دادند که مواظب حملهٔ دشمنان باشیم. |
13 So I put guards at the places where the wall was not very high yet and at places where there were gaps in the wall. I put guards to protect each of their family groups. I gave the guards daggers, spears, and bows [and arrows].
| پس، از هر خاندان نگهبانانی تعیین کردم و ایشان را با شمشیر و نیزه و کمان مجهز نمودم تا در پشت حصار بایستند و از قسمتهایی که در آنجا حصار هنوز ساخته نشده بود محافظت کنند. |
14 Then after I inspected everything, I summoned the leaders and [other] officials and [many of] the other people, and I said to them, “Do not be afraid of our enemies! Think about [what] Yahweh, who is great and glorious, [can do]! And fight to protect your friends, your families, and your homes!”
| سپس با در نظر گرفتن موقعیتی که داشتیم، سران قوم و مردم را جمع کردم و به ایشان گفتم: «از کسی نترسید! فراموش نکنید که خداوند، عظیم و مهیب است، پس به خاطر برادران و پسران و دختران و زنان و خانه‌های خود بجنگید!» |
15 Our enemies heard that we knew what they were planning to do and that God had (spoiled their plans/prevented them from doing what they planned). [But we were sure that God would defend us, ] so we all started to work on the wall again.
| دشمنان ما فهمیدند که ما به توطئه ایشان پی برده‌ایم و خدا نقشه‌شان را به هم زده است. پس ما سر کار خود بازگشتیم. |
16 But after that, only half of the men who were working for me worked on the wall. The others stood there on guard, holding their spears, shields, bows [and arrows], and [wearing their] coats made of metal plates. [To encourage the people] were building the wall, their leaders stood behind them.
| ولی از آن روز به بعد، نصف کارگران کار می‌کردند و نصف دیگر با نیزه و سپر و کمان و زره مسلح شده، نگهبانی می‌دادند. سران قوم از کسانی که مشغول بازسازی حصار بودند حمایت می‌کردند. حتی کسانی که بار می‌بردند با یک دست کار می‌کردند و با دست دیگر اسلحه حمل می‌نمودند. |
17 Those who carried [baskets of supplies on their heads/shoulders] and those who built the wall did their work with one hand, and held a weapon with the other hand.
18 All those who were building [the wall] had a dagger fastened to their side. The man who would blow the trumpet [if our enemies attacked] was standing at my side.
| هر یک از بنّایان نیز در حین کار شمشیر به کمر داشتند. شیپورچی کنار من ایستاده بود تا در صورت مشاهده خطر، شیپور را به صدا درآورد. |
19 Then I said to the officials, the other important men, and the other people, “This wall is very long, and we are far apart from each other along the wall.
| به سران قوم و مردم گفتم: «محل کار ما آنقدر وسیع است که ما روی حصار در فاصله‌ای دور از یکدیگر قرار داریم، |
20 If you hear the man blowing the trumpet, gather around us at that place. [Remember that] our God will fight for us!”
| پس هر وقت صدای شیپور را شنیدید فوری نزد من جمع شوید. خدای ما برای ما خواهد جنگید.» |
21 So we continued to work. Half of the men continued to hold their spears all day, from when the sun rose [in the morning] until the stars appeared [at night].
| ما از طلوع تا غروب آفتاب کار می‌کردیم و همیشه نصف مردها سر پست نگهبانی بودند. |
22 At that time, I also said to the people, “Tell every worker and his helper that they must stay inside Jerusalem at night. By doing that, they can guard us at night, and they can work [on the wall] during the daytime.”
| در ضمن به کارفرمایان و دستیاران ایشان گفتم که باید شبها در اورشلیم بمانند تا بتوانیم در شب نگهبانی بدهیم و در روز کار کنیم. |
23 During that time, none of us ever took off our clothes (OR, we wore our clothes all the time)—I and my relatives and my workers and the guards who were with me. And we had our weapons with us, in our hands.
| در تمام این مدت هیچ‌کدام از ما لباس خود را درنیاوردیم و همیشه با خود اسلحه داشتیم، هم من، هم برادرانم، هم افرادم و هم محافظانم. حتی وقتی برای آب خوردن می‌رفتیم، اسلحهٔ خود را به زمین نمی‌گذاشتیم. |
