Nehemaia 6
1 Anante Sanbalati'ma, Tobia'ma, Araputi ne' Gesemu'ene mago'a ha' vahetimo'za, nagrama mago kankamuma otre'nama kuma keginama huvagaroa nanekea antahi'naze. Hianagi kuma keginamofo kafaramintera kahana hageonte'noe.
Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem, and our other enemies heard [a report] that we had finished rebuilding the wall, and that now there were no more (gaps/places where the wall was not finished) (although we had not yet put the doors in the gates).
2 Sanbalatike Gesemukea amanage huke kea atrenantena'e, Kagra enketa Keferimie nehaza kumama Ono agupofima me'nere atru hanune huke hu'na'e. Hianagi zanagra nagri nazeri haviza hunaku havige hu'na'e.
So Sanballat and Geshem sent [a message] to me, in which they said “Come and talk with us at a place in Ono Plain [north of Jerusalem].” But [I knew that] really they wanted to harm me [if I went there].
3 Anagema hake'na ana kezani'amofo nona'a amanage hu'na kea atrezamantoge'za, mago'a vahe'mo'za eri'za vu'naze. Nagra ra eri'za eri agafa hunte'nena e'neruanki'na ana eri'zana atre'na uoramigahue. Na'agafare eri'zana atresanugeno me'nesige'na tanagritega uramigahue?
So I sent messengers to them, to tell them, “I am doing an important work, and I cannot go down [there]. (Why should I stop doing this work just to go down to [talk with] you?/I do not want to stop doing this work just to go down to [talk with] you.)” [RHQ]
4 Hianagi zanagra ana netremokea anahukna nanekea 4'a zupa atrenantakeno e'ne. Hige'na anama atrenantakeno'ma eterema hia knarera, ko'ma ese zupama kezanire'ma ke nonama hu'noa nanekege'za atrezanante'noe.
They sent me the same message four times, and each time when I replied to them I said the same thing.
5 Anama hugeno'a 5 furera, ko'ma atrenanta'a nanekegna kea Sanbalati'a avontafete kreteno, fukina reokamareno amne amigeno eri'za vahe'amo erino e'ne.
Then Sanballat sent one of his servants to me, bringing a fifth message. This one was written, but it was not sealed. [He did that in order that others would read the message that the servant was carrying] in his hand.
6 Ana avompina amanage huno krente'ne, Nagra Sanbalati'nama zaho kema antahuana tvaontire'ma mani'naza kumapi vahe'mo'za nehazageno, Gesemu'enema hiana, kagrane Jiu vahe'mota kuma kegina nehuta, kini ne'mofo agorga omaniku nehaze. Ana nehanagenka kagra Nehemaiaga kini zamia maniku nehane.
This is what was written in the message: “Some people in the nearby countries have heard a report that you and the other Jews are rebuilding the wall [in order to be able to resist attacks], because you are planning to revolt [against the king of Babylon]. And the report also says that you are planning to become the king [of the Israelis]. Geshem says that what they have reported is true.
7 Ana nehunka kasnampa vahe huhampri zamantanke'za Jerusalemi kumapi huama hu'za, Juda moparera mago kini mani'ne hu'za nehaze. Ana hu'neankino ana kemo'a Pesia kini nete vugahie. E'ina hu'negu kagra egeta, ana zamofo nanekea erinte fatgo ha'maneno.
[People are also saying that] you have appointed some prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem that you, [Nehemiah, ] are now the king in Judea. King [Artaxerxes] will certainly hear these reports, [and then you will be in big trouble]. So I suggest that we should meet together to talk about this matter.”
8 Hagi Sanbalati kerera nona'a amanage hu'na avona kre'noe. Amama hana nanekemo'a magore huno tamagea omne'neanki, kagra'a antahintahifinti eri fore nehane.
[When I read that message, ] I sent [the messenger] back to Sanballat to say, “None of what you are saying is true. You have (made this up/concocted this) in your own head/mind.”
9 Na'ankure ha' vahetimo'za amanage hu'za antahi'naze, nanekefinti zamazeri koro hanunke'za, zamesra hu'za eri'zana eri vagaoresaze hu'za anara hu'naze. Hianagi Anumzamoka nazana eri hankavetige'na eri'zana eri'neno hu'na nunamuna hu'noe.
[I said that because I knew that] they were trying to cause us to be afraid, with the result that we would stop working [on the wall]. So I actually became more determined (OR, I prayed to God to help me) [to continue the work].
10 Anante mago zupa Mehetabeli negeho ne' Delaia nemofo Simai'a noma'a kafana erigino mani'nere nantu antente'na vugeno, amanage huno hu'ne, Anumzamofo mono nompima ruotage'ma hu'nefinka ome franekita, mono no kafana erigisanu'e. Na'ankure meni kenagera ha' vahekamo'za eme kahe friku keaga hu'naze.
[One day] I went to talk with Shemaiah, son of Delaiah and grandson of Mehetabel. I went to talk with him in his house, because he was not able (OR, allowed) to leave his house. He said to me, “You and I must enter the very sacred place in the temple and lock the doors, because people are going to come to kill you at night.”
11 Hianagi nagra amanage hu'na kenona hu'noe, Nagra amanahu vahe'mo'na korora fregahufi? Inankna hu'na kva vahe'mo'na korora frena vu'na mono nompina ome frakina nagura vazigahue? I'o, nagra anara ovutfa hugahue.
I replied, “I (am not that kind of person/do not do things like that) [RHQ]! I would not run and hide in the temple to save my life! No, I will not do that!”
12 Nagrama antahi ama'ma huana ama ana nanekea Anumzamo asamigeno onasami'ne. Hianagi Tobiake Sanbalatike zago nemike hakeno, havi kasnampa ke nagritera hu'ne.
When I thought [about what he had said], I realized that God had not told Shemaiah to say that to me. I realized that Tobiah and Sanballat had bribed him [to say that to me].
13 Hanki nagri'ma nazeri koro'ma hanake'na koroma fre'na vu'na mono nompima ome frakisua zamo'ma hanige'na kumi'ma hanugeke, havi nagi nenamike huhaviza hunantesnanku, zanagra zago nemike huntakeno koro kea hunante'ne.
They had bribed him to cause me to be afraid. They wanted me to [disobey God’s commands and] sin [by hiding in the temple]. If I did that, they would be able to ruin my reputation [MTY] and discredit me.
14 Hige'na zanazeri haviza hinogu Anumzamofontega nunamuma hu'na nagri Anumzamoka ko, Tobiake Sanbalatikema nagri'ma hunante'na'a zanavu zanavara negenka, kasnampa a' Naodia'ene mago'a kasnampa vahe'mo'zanema nazeri kore'ma hunaku'ma nehaza zana hago zamage'nane.
[So I prayed, ] “My God, do not forget what Tobiah and Sanballat have done. Punish them. And do not forget that the female prophet Noadiah and some of the other prophets have also tried to cause me to be afraid.”
15 Hanki Elul ikamofona 25 zupa Jerusalemi kuma keginama nehuna eri'zana erivaga re'none. Ana eri'zama eri'nonana 52'a zagegnamofo agu'afi eri'none.
On October 2 we finished rebuilding the wall. We did it all in 52 days.
16 Ana hunke'za tva'ontire'ma me'nea mopafima mani'naza ha' vahetimozama ana nanekema nentahi'za tusi koro hazageno, amuha zazamia omane'ne. Na'ankure zamagrama antahi'zana tagri Anumzamo taza higeta kuma kegina huvaga re'none.
When our enemies in the nearby countries heard about that, they realized that they had been humiliated, because everyone knew that it was because God helped us that we had been able to do this work [and that they had not been able to force us to quit].
17 Hagi ana knafina Juda ranra vahe'mo'za Tobiana rama'a zupa avona kre'za atrente'naze. Ana hazageno Tobia'a agranena anazanke huno avona atrezamantege'za avona omi ami hu'naze.
During this time, the Jewish leaders had been sending many messages/letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah had been sending messages back to them.
18 Ana hige'za Juda vahepintira hakare'a vahe'mo'za Tobiana kza hugahune hu'za kea hu hagerafite'za aza hu'naze. Na'ankure Tobia'a Ara negeho Sikania mofa ara erigeno, Tobia nemofo Jehohanani'a Berekia nemofo Mesulamu mofa eri'negu hu'za anara hu'naze.
Many people in Judea were closely associated with Tobiah, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah. Furthermore, Tobiah’s son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berekiah.
19 Ana hige'za ana ranra vahetamimo'za Tobia'ma hia knare avu'ava zama'agura eme nenasami'za, nagrama hua nanekenena ome asami'naze. Ana hazageno Tobia'a nazeri koro hunaku nagritega avona kre atrevava hu'ne.
People often talked in my presence about all the good things that Tobiah had done, and then they would tell him everything that I said. So Tobiah sent many letters to me to try to cause me to become afraid.
