Neemias 6
1 Succedeu mais que, ouvindo Sanballat, Tobias, Gesem, o arabio, e o resto dos nossos inimigos que eu tinha edificado o muro, e que n'elle já não havia brecha alguma; ainda que até este tempo não tinha posto as portas nos portaes;
Now it happened that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem, an Arab, and our other enemies, had heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no interruption remaining in it, (even though, at that time, I had not set up the double doors at the gates, )
2 Sanballat e Gesem enviaram a dizer: Vem, e congreguemo-nos juntamente nas aldeias, no valle d'Ono. Porém intentavam fazer-me mal.
Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying: “Come, and let us strike a pact together in the villages, on the plain of Ono.” But they were thinking that they would do me harm.
3 E enviei-lhes mensageiros a dizer: Faço uma grande obra, de modo que não poderei descer: porque cessaria esta obra, emquanto eu a deixasse, e fosse ter comvosco?
Therefore, I sent messengers to them, saying: “I am doing a great work, and I cannot descend, lest perhaps it may be neglected when I go out and descend to you.”
4 E da mesma maneira enviaram a mim quatro vezes; e da mesma maneira lhes respondi.
Then they sent to me, with this same word, four times. And I responded to them with the same word as before.
5 Então Sanballat da mesma maneira a quinta vez me enviou seu moço com uma carta aberta na sua mão;
And Sanballat sent his servant to me a fifth time, with the former word, and he had a letter in his hand written in this manner:
6 E na qual estava escripto: Entre as gentes se ouviu, e Gusmu diz: Tu e os judeos intentaes rebellar-vos, pelo que edificas o muro; e tu te farás rei d'elles segundo estas palavras;
“It has been heard among the Gentiles, and Geshem has said it, that you and the Jews are planning to rebel, and because of this, you are building the wall and thinking to raise yourself as a king over them. For this reason,
7 E que pozeste prophetas, para prégarem de ti em Jerusalem, dizendo: Este é rei em Judah: de modo que o rei o ouvirá, segundo estas palavras: vem pois agora e consultemos juntamente.
you also have stationed prophets, who preach about you in Jerusalem, saying: ‘There is a king in Judea!’ But the king will hear about these words. Therefore, come now, so that we may go to counsel together.”
8 Porém eu enviei a dizer-lhe: De tudo o que dizes coisa nenhuma succedeu; mas tu do teu coração o inventas.
And I sent to them, saying: “There has been nothing done according to these words, which you have spoken. For you are inventing these things from your own heart.”
9 Porque todos elles nos procuravam atemorizar, dizendo: As suas mãos largarão a obra, e não se effeituará. Agora pois, ó Deus, esforça as minhas mãos.
For all these men wished to frighten us, thinking that our hands would cease from the work, and that we would cease. For this reason, I strengthened my hands all the more.
10 E, entrando eu em casa de Semaias, filho de Delaias, o filho de Mehetabel (que estava encerrado), disse elle: Vamos juntamente á casa de Deus, ao meio do templo, e fechemos as portas do templo; porque virão matar-te: sim, de noite virão matar-te.
And I entered into the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, in secret. And he said: “Let us consult together in the house of God, in the midst of the temple. And let us close the doors of the temple. For they will come to kill you, and they will arrive in the night to put you to death.”
11 Porém eu disse: Um homem como eu fugiria? e quem ha, como eu, que entre no templo e viva? de maneira nenhuma entrarei.
And I said: “How could anyone like me flee? And who like me should enter the temple, so that he may live? I will not enter.”
12 E conheci que eis-que não era Deus quem o enviara; mas esta prophecia fallou contra mim, porquanto Tobias e Sanballat o alugaram.
And I understood that God had not sent him, but he had spoken to me as if he were prophesying, and that Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13 Para isto o alugaram, para me atemorisar, e para que assim fizesse, e peccasse, para que tivessem alguma causa para me infamarem, e assim me vituperarem.
For he had accepted money, so that I would be afraid, and would sin, and so that they would have some evil with which to rebuke me.
14 Lembra-te, meu Deus, de Tobias e de Sanballat, conforme a estas suas obras: e tambem da prophetiza Noadia, e dos mais prophetas que procuraram atemorisar-me.
Remember me, O Lord, because of Tobiah and Sanballat, because of their works of this kind. Then, too, Noadiah, a prophetess, and the rest of the prophets, would have made me afraid.
15 Acabou-se pois o muro aos vinte e cinco d'elul: em cincoenta e dois dias.
Now the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Elul, in fifty-two days.
16 E succedeu que, ouvindo-o todos os nossos inimigos, temeram, todos os gentios que havia em roda de nós, e abateram-se muito em seus proprios olhos; porque reconheceram que o nosso Deus fizera esta obra.
Then it happened that, when all our enemies had heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they were downcast within themselves. For they knew that this work had been accomplished by God.
17 Tambem n'aquelles dias alguns nobres de Judah escreveram muitas cartas, que iam para Tobias: e as cartas de Tobias vinham para elles.
But also, in those days, many letters were being sent by the nobles of the Jews to Tobiah, and were arriving from Tobiah to them.
18 Porque muitos em Judah se lhe ajuramentaram, porque era genro de Sechanias, filho d'Arah; e seu filho Johanan tomara a filha de Mesullam, filho de Berechias.
For there were many in Judea who had sworn an oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah, the son of Arah, and because Jehohanan, his son, had married the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah.
19 Tambem as suas bondades contavam perante mim, e as minhas palavras lhe levavam a elle: portanto Tobias escrevia cartas para me atemorizar.
Moreover, they praised him before me, and they reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters, so that he might make me afraid.
