Nehemiah 5
1 [Later, ] many of the men and their wives protested loudly about what [some of] the [other] Jews were doing.
| در این وقت جنجال بزرگی بر پا شد. عده‌ای از مردان و زنان از یهودیان همنژاد خود شکایت کردند. |
2 Some/One of them said, “We have many children. So we need a lot of grain to be able to eat and continue to live.”
| بعضی از آنها می‌گفتند: «تعداد افراد خانوادهٔ ما زیاد است و ما نان کافی نداریم که بخوریم و زنده بمانیم.» |
3 Others said, “The fields and vineyards and houses that we own, it has been necessary for us to (mortgage them/promise to give them to someone if we do not pay back to him the money he has loaned us) in order to get money to buy grain, during this (famine/time where there is not much food).”
| عده‌ای دیگر می‌گفتند: «ما مجبوریم مزرعه، باغ انگور و حتی خانه خود را گرو بگذاریم تا بتوانیم گندم تهیه کنیم و از گرسنگی تلف نشویم.» |
4 Others said, “We have [needed to] borrow money to pay the taxes that the king [commanded us to pay] on our fields and our vineyards.
| برخی دیگر نیز می‌گفتند: «ما پول قرض کرده‌ایم تا مالیات مزرعه و تاکستان خود را به پادشاه بپردازیم. |
5 We are Jews just like [IDM] they are. Our children are ([just as good as/equal with)] their children. But we have needed to sell some of our children to become slaves [in order to pay what we owe]. We have already sold some of our daughters to become slaves. Our fields and vineyards have been taken away from us, so now we do not have [the money to pay what we owe, and we are forced to sell our children to get money to pay those debts].”
| ما برادران ایشانیم و فرزندان ما هم مثل فرزندان ایشان یهودی‌اند، اما ما مجبوریم بچه‌های خود را بفروشیم. قبلاً بعضی از دختران خود را فروخته‌ایم و پول نداریم آنها را بازخرید کنیم، چون مزرعه‌ها و تاکستانهای ما هم در گرو است.» |
6 I was very angry when I heard these things that they were complaining about.
| وقتی این شکایت را شنیدم بسیار خشمگین شدم |
7 So I thought about what I could do about it. I told the leaders and officials [who were responsible for this work], “You are charging interest to your own relatives [when they borrow money from you]!” Then I called together a large group of people,
| و پس از فکر کردن، سران و بزرگان قوم را سرزنش کرده، گفتم: «چرا بر برادران یهودی خود ظلم می‌کنید؟» سپس عدهٔ زیادی را جمع کردم و این یهودیان را به پای میز محاکمه کشیده، |
8 and I said to their [leaders], “Some of our Jewish relatives have been forced to sell themselves to become slaves of people who have come from other countries. As much as we have been able to, we have been buying them back [out of slavery]. But now you are forcing your own relatives to sell themselves to you, their fellow Jews, as slaves!” [When I said that to them, ] they were silent. There was nothing that they could say [because they knew that what I said was true].
| گفتم: «ما تا آنجا که توانسته‌ایم برادران یهودی خود را که به اسارت فروخته شده بودند بازخرید کرده‌ایم. حال، شما ایشان را مجبور می‌کنید خود را به شما بفروشند. مگر ممکن است یک یهودی به برادر یهودی خود فروخته شود؟» آنها برای دفاع از خود جوابی نداشتند. |
9 Then I said to them, “What you are doing is terrible [EUP]! You certainly ought to [RHQ] obey God and do what is right! If you did that, our enemies who do not revere Yahweh [would see that we are doing what is right and] would not ridicule us.
| در ادامهٔ حرفهایم گفتم: «کاری که شما می‌کنید خوب نیست! مگر از خدا نمی‌ترسید؟ چرا می‌خواهید کاری کنید که دشمنان، ما را مسخره کنند. |
10 My fellow Jews and I and my servants have lent money and grain to people [without charging interest]. So you all should stop charging interest on these loans.
| من و برادران و افرادم به برادران یهودی، بدون سود پول و غله قرض می‌دهیم. از شما هم می‌خواهم از رباخواری دست بردارید. |
11 Also, you must give back to them their fields, their vineyards, their olive tree orchards, and their houses that you have taken from them. You must also give back to them the interest that you charged them when they borrowed money, grain, wine, and [olive] oil from you, and you must do it today!”
| مزرعه‌ها، تاکستانها، باغهای زیتون و خانه‌هایشان را و نیز سودی را که از ایشان گرفته‌اید همین امروز پس بدهید.» |
12 The leaders replied, “We will do what you have said. We will return to them everything that we forced them to give to us, and we will not require that they give us anything more.” Then I summoned the priests, and I forced the leaders to vow in front of them that they would do what they had promised to do.
| سران و بزرگان جواب دادند: «آنچه گفتی انجام خواهیم داد. املاکشان را به ایشان پس خواهیم داد و از ایشان چیزی مطالبه نخواهیم کرد.» آنگاه کاهنان را احضار کردم و از سران و بزرگان خواستم در حضور ایشان قسم بخورند که این کار را خواهند کرد. |
13 I shook out the folds of my robe and said to them, “If you do not do what you have just now promised to do, I hope/desire that God will shake you like I am shaking my robe. He will take away your homes and everything else that you own.” They all replied, “Amen/May it be so!” And they praised Yahweh. Then they did what they had promised to do.
| سپس شال کمر خود را باز کرده، تکان دادم و گفتم: «خدا اینچنین شما را از خانه و دارایی‌تان بتکاند، اگر به قول خود وفا نکنید.» تمام قوم با صدای بلند گفتند: «آمین!» و از خداوند تشکر کردند و سران و بزرگان نیز به قول خود وفا کردند. |
14 I was appointed to be the governor of Judea in the twentieth year that Artaxerxes was the king [of Persia]. For the next twelve years, until he had been ruling for almost 32 years, neither I nor my officials accepted [the money that we were allowed/entitled to receive to buy] food because of my being the governor.
| در ضمن، در طول دوازده سالی که من حاکم یهودا بودم، یعنی از سال بیستم تا سال سی و دوم سلطنت اردشیر پادشاه پارس، نه خودم و نه برادرانم، از غذای مخصوص حاکمان استفاده نکردیم. |
15 The men who were governors before I became the governor had burdened the people by requiring them to pay a lot of taxes. They had forced each person to pay to them 40 silver coins every day, in addition to giving food and wine to them. Even their servants/officials oppressed the people. But I did not do that, because I revered God.
| حاکمان قبلی، علاوه بر خوراک و شرابی که از مردم می‌گرفتند، روزی چهل مثقال نقره نیز از ایشان مطالبه می‌کردند و مأموران آنها نیز بر مردم ظلم می‌کردند، ولی من هرگز چنین کاری نکردم، زیرا از خدا می‌ترسیدم. |
16 I also continued to work on the wall, and I did not take land from people [who were unable to pay back the money that they had borrowed from me]. All those who worked for me joined me to work on the wall.
| من در کار ساختن حصار شهر مشغول بودم و مزرعه‌ای برای خود نخریدم. از مأمورانم خواستم که وقت خود را صرف تعمیر حصار شهر کنند. |
17 Also, every day I was responsible to feed 150 Jewish officials, and also [official] visitors who came from nearby countries.
| از این گذشته، علاوه بر مهمانانی که از قومهای دیگر داشتم، هر روز صد و پنجاه نفر از مردم یهود و بزرگانشان سر سفرهٔ من خوراک می‌خوردند. |
18 Each day I [told my servants to] serve [us the meat from] one ox, six very good sheep, and chickens. And every ten days I gave them a large new supply of wine. But I knew that the people were burdened [by paying lots of taxes], so I did not accept [the money that I was entitled/allowed to receive to buy all this] food because of my being the governor.
| هر روز یک گاو، شش گوسفند پرواری و تعداد زیادی مرغ برای خوراک، و هر ده روز یکبار، مقدار زیادی از انواع گوناگون شرابها تدارک می‌دیدم. با وجود این، هرگز از مردم نخواستم سهمیهٔ مخصوص را که به حاکمان تعلق داشت به من بدهند، زیرا بار این مردم به قدر کافی سنگین بود. |
19 My God, do not forget me, and reward me because of all that I have done for these people.
| ای خدای من، مرا به یاد آور و به سبب آنچه برای این قوم کرده‌ام مرا برکت ده. |
