Nehemia 2
1 Ary tamin’ ny volana Nisana tamin’ ny taona faharoa-polo nanjakan’ i Artaksersesy, raha teo anoloany ny divay, dia noraisiko ka natolotro ny mpanjaka. Fa vao izay aho no mba nalahelo teo anatrehany.
And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never before been sad when the king was present.
2 Dia hoy ny mpanjaka tamiko: Nahoana no malahelo tarehy ianao, kanefa tsy marary tsinona? Tsy zavatra hafa izao, fa alahelom-po mihitsy. Dia raiki-tahotra indrindra aho
And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear;
3 ka nanao tamin’ ny mpanjaka hoe: Ho velona mandrakizay anie ny mpanjaka; nahoana no tsy halahelo tarehy aho, fa rava ny tanàna misy ny fasan-drazako, sady efa levon’ ny afo ny vavahadiny?
And said to the king, May the king be living for ever: is it not natural for my face to be sad, when the town, the place where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, has been made waste and its doorways burned with fire?
4 Dia hoy ny mpanjaka tamiko: Inona ary no angatahinao? Dia nivavaka tamin’ Andriamanitry ny lanitra aho aloha,
Then the king said to me, What is your desire? So I made prayer to the God of heaven.
5 dia vao niteny tamin’ ny mpanjaka hoe: Raha sitraky ny mpanjaka, ka mahita fitia eto imasonao ny mpanomponao, dia alefaso ho any Joda aho, ho any amin’ ny tanàna misy ny fasan-drazako mba hanamboarako izany.
And I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, and if your servant has your approval, send me to Judah, to the town where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, so that I may take in hand the building of it.
6 Ary hoy ny mpanjaka tamiko (ny vadin’ ny mpanjaka koa nipetraka teo anilany): Haharitra hoatrinona any anefa ianao, ary rahoviana no hiverina? Ka dia sitraky ny mpanjaka ny handefa ahy; ary dia nilaza fotoana taminy aho.
And the king said to me (the queen being seated by his side), How long will your journey take, and when will you come back? So the king was pleased to send me, and I gave him a fixed time.
7 Ary hoy koa aho tamin’ ny mpanjaka: Raha sitraky ny mpanjaka, aoka homena taratasy ho amin’ ireo governora any an-dafin’ ny ony aho, mba hamelany ahy handeha hatrany Joda,
Further, I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, let letters be given to me for the rulers across the river, so that they may let me go through till I come to Judah;
8 sy taratasy ho amin’ i Asafa, mpitandrina ny alan’ i ny mpanjaka mba hanomezany hazo hanaovako ny vavahadin’ ny lapa izay momba ny tempoly sy hanaovako ny mandan’ ny tanàna sy ny trano izay hitoerako. Dia nomen’ ny mpanjaka ahy izany araka ny soa nataon’ ny tànan’ Andriamanitro tamiko.
And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's park, so that he may give me wood to make boards for the doors of the tower of the house, and for the wall of the town, and for the house which is to be mine. And the king gave me this, for the hand of my God was on me.
9 Dia tonga tany amin’ ireo governora any an-dafin’ ny ony aho, ka natolotro azy ny taratasin’ ny mpanjaka. Ary ny mpanjaka efa naniraka manamboninahitra sy mpitaingin-tsoavaly hanatitra ahy.
Then I came to the rulers of the lands across the river and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.
10 Raha nahare izany Sanbala Horonita sy Tobia Amonita mpanompo, dia sosotra loatra izy, satria nisy lehilahy tonga hitady izay hahasoa ny Zanak’ Isiraely.
And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, hearing of it, were greatly troubled because a man had come to the help of the children of Israel.
11 Dia tonga tany Jerosalema aho ka nitoetra tany hateloana.
So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.
12 Ary nifoha tamin’ ny alina aho, dia izaho sy ny olom-bitsy nomba ahy; nefa tsy nisy olona nilazako izay natsindrin’ Andriamanitra ny foko hatao any Jerosalema; ary tsy nisy biby nentiko afa-tsy ilay nitaingenako ihany.
And in the night I got up, taking with me a small band of men; I said nothing to any man of what God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem: and I had no beast with me but the one on which I was seated.
13 Dia nandeha alina aho ka nivoaka tamin’ ny vavahady mankany amin’ ny lohasaha, tandrifin’ ny loharanon’ ny dragona, sy tamin’ ny vavahadin-jezika ka nizaha ny mandan’ i Jerosalema izay efa rava sy ny vavahadiny izay efa levon’ ny afo.
And I went out by night, through the doorway of the valley, and past the dragon's water-spring as far as the place where waste material was put, viewing the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and the doorways which had been burned with fire.
14 Dia nankany amin’ ny vavahadin-doharano sy ny farihin’ ny mpanjaka koa aho; nefa tsy nisy lalana azon’ ilay biby nitaingenako naleha akory.
Then I went on to the door of the fountain and to the king's pool: but there was no room for my beast to get through.
15 Dia niakatra teo amin’ ny lohasahan-driaka aho tamin’ ny alina ka nizaha ny manda, dia nitodika ka niditra tamin’ ny vavahady mankany amin’ ny lohasaha, dia niverina.
Then in the night, I went up by the stream, viewing the wall; then turning back, I went in by the door in the valley, and so came back.
16 Nefa ireo mpanapaka tsy nahalala izay nalehako, na izay nataoko; fa hatramin’ izay dia tsy mbola nolazaiko tamin’ ny Jiosy izany, na tamin’ ny mpisorona, na tamin’ ny manan-kaja, na tamin’ ny mpanapaka, na tamin’ ny vahoaka sisa izay nanao ny asa.
And the chiefs had no knowledge of where I had been or what I was doing; and I had not then said anything to the Jews or to the priests or the great ones or the chiefs or the rest of those who were doing the work.
17 Ary hoy izaho taminy: Hianareo mahita ny fahoriantsika, fa rava Jerosalema ary nodoran’ ny afo ny vavahadiny; koa andeha isika hanangana ny mandan’ i Jerosalema, mba tsy ho latsa intsony isika.
Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.
18 Dia nambarako azy ny tànan’ Andriamanitro izay nahasoa ahy, ary ny tenin’ ny mpanjaka koa izay nolazainy tamiko. Ary hoy izy: Eny, aoka ary isika hitsangana ka handrafitra azy. Koa dia nampahery ny tànany hanao izany soa izany izy.
Then I gave them an account of how the hand of my God was on me, helping me; and of the king's words which he had said to me. And they said, Let us get to work on the building. So they made their hands strong for the good work.
19 Fa nony ren’ i Sanbala Horonita sy Tobia Amonita mpanompo ary Gasema Arabo izany, dia nanaraby sy nanevateva anay izy nanao hoe: Inona izao zavatra ataonareo izao? Hikomy amin’ ny mpanjaka angaha ianareo?
But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?
20 Dia namaly azy aho ka nanao taminy hoe: Andriamanitry ny lanitra, Izy no hanambina anay, ka dia hitsangana handrafitra izahay mpanompony; fa ianareo tsy manana anjara, na rariny, na fahatsiarovana akory, atỳ Jerosalema.
Then answering them I said, The God of heaven, he will be our help; so we his servants will go on with our building: but you have no part or right or any name in Jerusalem.
