Nehemiah 5
1 Then the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews.
百姓和他们的妻大大呼号，埋怨他们的弟兄犹大人。
2 For there were some who said, “With our sons and daughters we are many. So let us get grain that we may eat and stay alive.”
有的说：“我们和儿女人口众多，要去得粮食度命”；
3 There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain during the famine.”
有的说：“我们典了田地、葡萄园、房屋，要得粮食充饥”；
4 Some also said, “We have borrowed money to pay the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards.
有的说：“我们已经指着田地、葡萄园，借了钱给王纳税。
5 Yet now our flesh and blood is the same as our brothers, and our children are the same as their children. We are forced to sell our sons and our daughters to become slaves. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved. But it is not in our power to help it because other men now own our fields and our vineyards.”
我们的身体与我们弟兄的身体一样；我们的儿女与他们的儿女一般。现在我们将要使儿女作人的仆婢，我们的女儿已有为婢的；我们并无力拯救，因为我们的田地、葡萄园已经归了别人。”
6 I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words.
我听见他们呼号说这些话，便甚发怒。
7 Then I thought about this, and brought charges against the nobles and officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his own brother.” I held a great assembly against them
我心里筹划，就斥责贵胄和官长说：“你们各人向弟兄取利！”于是我招聚大会攻击他们。
8 and said to them, “We, as much as we are able, have bought back from slavery our Jewish brothers who had been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers and sisters that they may be sold back to us!” They were silent and never found a word to say.
我对他们说：“我们尽力赎回我们弟兄，就是卖与外邦的犹大人；你们还要卖弟兄，使我们赎回来吗？”他们就静默不语，无话可答。
9 Also I said, “What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations that are our enemies?
我又说：“你们所行的不善！你们行事不当敬畏我们的 神吗？不然，难免我们的仇敌外邦人毁谤我们。
10 I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. But we must stop charging interest on these loans.
我和我的弟兄与仆人也将银钱粮食借给百姓；我们大家都当免去利息。
11 Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses and the percentage of the money, the grain, the new wine, and the oil that you exacted from them.”
如今我劝你们将他们的田地、葡萄园、橄榄园、房屋，并向他们所取的银钱、粮食、新酒，和油，百分之一的利息都归还他们。”
12 Then they said, “We will return what we took from them, and will require nothing from them. We will do as you say.” Then I called the priests, and made them swear to do as they had promised.
众人说：“我们必归还，不再向他们索要，必照你的话行。”我就召了祭司来，叫众人起誓，必照着所应许的而行。
13 I shook out the fold of my robe and said, “So may God shake out of his house and possessions every man who does not keep his promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised Yahweh and the people did as they had promised.
我也抖着胸前的衣襟，说：“凡不成就这应许的，愿 神照样抖他离开家产和他劳碌得来的，直到抖空了。”会众都说：“阿们！”又赞美耶和华。百姓就照着所应许的去行。
14 So from the time I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food provided for the governor.
自从我奉派作犹大地的省长，就是从亚达薛西王二十年直到三十二年，共十二年之久，我与我弟兄都没有吃省长的俸禄。
15 But the former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people, and took from them forty shekels of silver for their daily food and wine. Even their servants oppressed the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.
在我以前的省长加重百姓的担子，每日索要粮食和酒，并银子四十舍客勒，就是他们的仆人也辖制百姓；但我因敬畏 神不这样行。
16 I also continued to work on the wall, and we bought no land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work.
并且我恒心修造城墙，并没有置买田地；我的仆人也都聚集在那里做工。
17 At my table were the Jews and the officials, 150 men, besides those who came to us from among the nations who were around us.
除了从四围外邦中来的犹大人以外，有犹大平民和官长一百五十人在我席上吃饭。
18 Now what was prepared each day was one ox, six choice sheep, and also birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance, yet for all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the demands were too heavy on the people.
每日预备一只公牛，六只肥羊，又预备些飞禽；每十日一次，多预备各样的酒。虽然如此，我并不要省长的俸禄，因为百姓服役甚重。
19 Call me to mind, my God, for good, because of all that I have done for this people.
我的 神啊，求你记念我为这百姓所行的一切事，施恩与我。
