Nehemiah 6
1 And it cometh to pass, when it hath been heard by Sanballat, and Tobiah, and by Geshem the Arabian, and by the rest of our enemies, that I have builded the wall, and there hath not been left in it a breach, (also, till that time the doors I had not set up in the gates, )
参巴拉、多比雅、阿拉伯人基善和我们其余的仇敌听见我已经修完了城墙，其中没有破裂之处（那时我还没有安门扇），
2 that Sanballat sendeth, also Geshem, unto me, saying, 'Come and we meet together in the villages, in the valley of Ono;' and they are thinking to do to me evil.
参巴拉和基善就打发人来见我，说：“请你来，我们在阿挪平原的一个村庄相会。”他们却想害我。
3 And I send unto them messengers, saying, 'A great work I am doing, and I am not able to come down; why doth the work cease when I let it alone, and have come down unto you?'
于是我差遣人去见他们，说：“我现在办理大工，不能下去。焉能停工下去见你们呢？”
4 and they send unto me, according to this word, four times, and I return them [word] according to this word.
他们这样四次打发人来见我，我都如此回答他们。
5 And Sanballat sendeth unto me, according to this word, a fifth time, his servant, and an open letter in his hand;
参巴拉第五次打发仆人来见我，手里拿着未封的信，
6 it is written in it, 'Among the nations it hath been heard, and Gashmu is saying: Thou and the Jews are thinking to rebel, therefore thou art building the wall, and thou hast been to them for a king — according to these words!
信上写着说：“外邦人中有风声，迦施慕也说，你和犹大人谋反，修造城墙，你要作他们的王；
7 And also, prophets thou hast appointed to call for thee in Jerusalem, saying, A king [is] in Judah, and now it is heard by the king according to these words; and now come, and we take counsel together.'
你又派先知在耶路撒冷指着你宣讲，说在犹大有王。现在这话必传与王知；所以请你来，与我们彼此商议。”
8 And I send unto him, saying, 'It hath not been according to these words that thou art saying, for from thine own heart thou art devising them;'
我就差遣人去见他，说：“你所说的这事，一概没有，是你心里捏造的。”
9 for all of them are making us afraid, saying, 'Their hands are too feeble for the work, and it is not done;' and now, strengthen Thou my hands.
他们都要使我们惧怕，意思说，他们的手必软弱，以致工作不能成就。 神啊，求你坚固我的手。
10 And I have entered the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabeel — and he is restrained — and he saith, 'Let us meet at the house of God, at the inside of the temple, and we shut the doors of the temple, for they are coming in to slay thee — yea, by night they are coming in to slay thee.'
我到了米希大别的孙子、第来雅的儿子示玛雅家里；那时，他闭门不出。他说：“我们不如在 神的殿里会面，将殿门关锁；因为他们要来杀你，就是夜里来杀你。”
11 And I say, 'A man such as I — doth he flee? and who as I, that doth go in unto the temple, and live? — I do not go in.'
我说：“像我这样的人岂要逃跑呢？像我这样的人岂能进入殿里保全生命呢？我不进去！”
12 And I discern, and lo, God hath not sent him, for in the prophecy he hath spoken unto me both Tobiah and Sanballat hired him,
我看明 神没有差遣他，是他自己说这话攻击我，是多比雅和参巴拉贿买了他。
13 so that he [is] an hireling, that I may fear and do so, and I had sinned, and it had been to them for an evil name that they may reproach me.
贿买他的缘故，是要叫我惧怕，依从他犯罪，他们好传扬恶言毁谤我。
14 Be mindful, O my God, of Tobiah, and of Sanballat, according to these his works, and also, of Noadiah the prophetess, and of the rest of the prophets who have been making me afraid.
我的 神啊，多比雅、参巴拉、女先知挪亚底，和其余的先知要叫我惧怕，求你记念他们所行的这些事。
15 And the wall is completed in the twenty and fifth of Elul, on the fifty and second day;
以禄月二十五日，城墙修完了，共修了五十二天。
16 and it cometh to pass, when all our enemies have heard, and all the nations who are round about us see, that they fall greatly in their own eyes, and know that by our God hath this work been done.
我们一切仇敌、四围的外邦人听见了便惧怕，愁眉不展；因为见这工作完成是出乎我们的 神。
17 Also, in those days the freemen of Judah are multiplying their letters going unto Tobiah, and those of Tobiah are coming in unto them;
在那些日子，犹大的贵胄屡次寄信与多比雅，多比雅也来信与他们。
18 for many in Judah are sworn to him, for he [is] son-in-law to Shechaniah son of Arah, and Jehohanan his son hath taken the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah;
在犹大有许多人与多比雅结盟；因他是亚拉的儿子，示迦尼的女婿，并且他的儿子约哈难娶了比利迦儿子米书兰的女儿为妻。
19 also, his good deeds they have been saying before me, and my words they have been taking out to him; letters hath Tobiah sent to make me afraid.
他们常在我面前说多比雅的善行，也将我的话传与他。多比雅又常寄信来，要叫我惧怕。
