< نحمیا 6 >
سنبلط، طوبیا، جشم عرب و بقیه دشمنان ما شنیدند که کار تعمیر حصار رو به اتمام است (هر چند تمام درهای دروازهها را کار نگذاشته بودیم)، | 1 |
Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways);
پس سنبلط و جشم برای من پیغام فرستادند که در یکی از دهات دشت اونو به دیدن ایشان بروم. ولی من پی بردم که میخواهند به من آسیبی برسانند؛ | 2 |
Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying, Come, let us have a meeting in one of the little towns in the lowland of Ono. But their purpose was to do me evil.
پس جوابشان را اینطور دادم: «من مشغول کار مهمی هستم و نمیتوانم دست از کارم بکشم و به دیدن شما بیایم.» | 3 |
And I sent men to them saying, I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come down: is the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come down to you?
ایشان چهار بار برای من همان پیغام را فرستادند و من هم هر بار همان جواب را دادم. | 4 |
And four times they sent to me in this way, and I sent them the same answer.
بار پنجم، مأمور سنبلط با یک نامهٔ سرگشاده پیش من آمد؛ | 5 |
Then Sanballat sent his servant to me a fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
مضمون نامه چنین بود: «جشم به من میگوید که بین مردم شایع شده که تو و یهودیان قصد شورش دارید، و به همین جهت است که دور شهر اورشلیم حصار میکشی؛ و بنا به این گزارش، تو میخواهی پادشاه ایشان بشوی. | 6 |
And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpose to be their king;
از این گذشته انبیایی تعیین کردهای تا در اورشلیم مردم را دور خود جمع کنند و بگویند که نحمیا پادشاه یهوداست. مطمئن باش این خبرها به گوش اردشیر پادشاه خواهد رسید. پس بهتر است پیش من بیایی تا در این مورد با هم مشورت کنیم.» | 7 |
And that you have prophets preaching about you in Jerusalem, and saying, There is a king in Judah: now an account of these things will be sent to the king. So come now, and let us have a discussion.
جواب دادم: «آنچه میگویی حقیقت ندارد. اینها ساخته و پرداخته خودت است.» | 8 |
Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, they are only a fiction you have made up yourself.
آنها میخواستند با این حرفها ما را بترسانند تا از کار دست بکشیم. ولی من دعا کردم تا خدا مرا تقویت کند. | 9 |
For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.
شمعیا (پسر دلایا و نوه مِهیطَبئیل) در خانهٔ خود بست نشسته بود و من به دیدنش رفتم. وقتی مرا دید، گفت: «باید هر چه زودتر در خانهٔ خدا مخفی بشویم و درها را قفل کنیم. چون امشب میآیند تو را بکشند!» | 10 |
And I went to the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us have a meeting in the house of God, inside the Temple, and let the doors be shut: for they will come to put you to death; truly, in the night they will come to put you to death.
ولی من جواب دادم: «آیا میشود مردی مثل من از خطر فرار کند؟ من حق ندارم برای حفظ جانم داخل خانهٔ خدا بشوم. من هرگز این کار را نمیکنم.» | 11 |
And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.
بعد فهمیدم که پیغام شمعیا از طرف خدا نبود، بلکه طوبیا و سنبلط او را اجیر کرده بودند تا مرا بترسانند و وادار کنند به خانهٔ خدا فرار کنم و مرتکب گناه بشوم تا بتوانند مرا رسوا کنند. | 12 |
Then it became clear to me that God had not sent him: he had given this word of a prophet against me himself: and Tobiah and Sanballat had given him money to do so.
For this reason they had given him money, in order that I might be overcome by fear and do what he said and do wrong, and so they would have reason to say evil about me and put shame on me.
آنگاه دعا کردم: «ای خدای من، طوبیا و سنبلط را به سزای اعمالشان برسان و نیز به یاد آور که چگونه نوعدیه نبیه و سایر انبیا میخواستند مرا بترسانند.» | 14 |
Keep in mind, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat and what they did, and Noadiah, the woman prophet, and the rest of the prophets whose purpose was to put fear into me.
سرانجام کار بازسازی حصار اورشلیم در بیست و پنجم ماه ایلول تمام شد. این کار پنجاه و دو روز طول کشید. | 15 |
So the wall was complete on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
وقتی دشمنان ما که در سرزمینهای مجاور ما بودند این را دیدند، رسوا شدند و فهمیدند که این کار با کمک خدای ما تمام شده است. | 16 |
And when our haters had news of this, all the nations round about us were full of fear and were greatly shamed, for they saw that this work had been done by our God.
در این مدت نامههای زیادی بین طوبیا و بزرگان یهودا رد و بدل شد. | 17 |
And further, in those days the chiefs of Judah sent a number of letters to Tobiah, and his letters came to them.
در یهودا بسیاری با او همدست شده بودند، چون هم خودش داماد شکنیا (پسر آرح) بود و هم پسرش یهوحانان با دختر مشلام (پسر برکیا) ازدواج کرده بود. | 18 |
For in Judah there were a number of people who had made an agreement by oath with him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah, the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken as his wife the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah.
مردم پیش من از طوبیا تعریف میکردند، و هر چه از من میشنیدند به او خبر میدادند. طوبیا هم برای اینکه مرا بترساند، نامههای تهدیدآمیز برایم مینوشت. | 19 |
And they said much before me of the good he had done, and gave him accounts of my words. And Tobiah sent letters with the purpose of causing me fear.