Nehemija 9

1 Potom dvadeset èetvrtoga dana toga mjeseca skupiše se sinovi Izrailjevi posteæi i u kostrijeti i posuvši se zemljom.

And in the four and twentieth day of the month the children of Israel came together with fasting and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.

2 I odvoji se sjeme Izrailjevo od svijeh tuðinaca, i stadoše te ispovijedahu grijehe svoje i bezakonja otaca svojih.

And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

3 I stajahu na svom mjestu, te im se èitaše zakon Gospoda Boga njihova èetvrt dana, a drugu èetvrt ispovijedahu se i poklanjahu se Gospodu Bogu svojemu.

And they rose up to stand: and they read in the book of the law of the Lord their God, four times in the day, and four times they confessed, and adored the Lord their God.

4 A Isus i Vanije, Kadmilo, Sevanija, Vunije, Serevija, Vanije i Hananije popevši se na mjesto podignuto za Levite vapijahu glasom velikim ka Gospodu Bogu svojemu.

And there stood up upon the seep of the Levites, Josue, and Bani, and Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and Chanani: and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.

5 I rekoše Leviti Isus i Kadmilo, Vanije, Asavnija, Serevija, Odija, Sevanija i Petaja: ustanite, blagosiljajte Gospoda Boga svojega od vijeka do vijeka; i da se blagosilja ime tvoje slavno i uzvišeno svrh svakoga blagoslova i hvale.

And the Levites Josue and Cedmihel, Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia, Oduia, Sebnia, and Phathahia, said: Arise, bless the Lord your God from eternity to eternity: and blessed be the high name of thy glory with all blessing and praise.

6 Ti si sam Gospod; ti si stvorio nebo, nebesa nad nebesima i svu vojsku njihovu, zemlju i sve što je na njoj, mora i sve što je u njima, i ti oživljavaš sve to, i vojska nebeska tebi se klanja.

Thou thyself, O Lord alone, thou hast made heaven, and the heaven of heavens, and all the host thereof: the earth and all things that are in it: the seas and all that are therein: and thou givest life to all these things, and the host of heaven adoreth thee.

7 Ti si Gospod Bog, koji si izabrao Avrama i izveo iz Ura Haldejskoga i nadio mu ime Avraam;

Thou, O Lord God, art he who chosest Abram, and broughtest him forth out of the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of Abraham.

8 I našao si srce njegovo vjerno pred sobom, i uèinio si s njim zavjet da æeš dati zemlju Hanansku, Hetejsku, Amorejsku, Ferezejsku i Jevusejsku i Gergesejsku, da æeš dati sjemenu njegovu, i ispunio si rijeèi svoje, jer si pravedan.

And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words, because thou art just.

9 Jer si pogledao na muku otaca naših u Misiru, i viku njihovu èuo si na Moru Crvenom;

And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt: and thou didst hear their cry by the Red Sea.

10 I uèinio si znake i èudesa na Faraonu i na svijem slugama njegovijem i na svem narodu zemlje njegove, jer si znao da su obijesno postupali s njima; i stekao si sebi ime, kao što se vidi danas.

And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharao, and upon all his servants, and upon the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as it is at this day.

11 I more si razdvojio pred njima, te prijeðoše posred mora suhim, i bacio si u dubine one koji ih gnahu kao kamen u vodu.

And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.

12 I u stupu od oblaka vodio si ih danju a noæu u stupu ognjenom svijetleæi im putem kojim æe iæi.

And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of Are by night, that they might see the way by which they went.

13 I sišao si na goru Sinajsku i govorio s njima s neba, i dao im sudove prave i zakone istinite, uredbe i zapovijesti dobre.

Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts.

14 I obznanio si im subotu svoju svetu, i dao im zapovijesti i uredbe i zakon preko Mojsija sluge svojega.

Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and didst prescribe to them commandments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand of Moses thy servant.

15 I hljeb s neba dao si im u gladi njihovoj, i vodu iz kamena izveo si im u žeði njihovoj, i rekao si im da idu i naslijede zemlju za koju si podigao ruku svoju da æeš im je dati.

And thou gavest them bread from heaven in their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock in their thirst, and thou saidst to them that they should go in, and possess the land, upon which thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it them.

16 Ali oni i oci naši uzobijestiše se i otvrdnuše vratom svojim i ne slušaše zapovijesti tvojih.

But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments.

17 Ne htješe slušati, i ne opominjaše se èudesa tvojih koja si im èinio, nego otvrdnuše vratom svojim, i u odmetu svom postavljaše sebi voða da se vrate u ropstvo svoje. Ali ti, Bože, koji opraštaš, koji si žalostiv i milostiv, koji dugo trpiš i velike si milosti, nijesi ih ostavio.

And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy wonders which thou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave the head to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But thou, a forgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full of compassion, didst not forsake them.

18 I onda kad naèiniše sebi tele liveno i rekoše: ovo je tvoj Bog koji te je izveo iz Misira, i huliše veoma,

Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and hail committed great blasphemies:

19 Ni onda ih radi velike milosti svoje nijesi ostavio u pustinji; stup od oblaka nije otstupao od njih danju vodeæi ih putem, niti stup ognjeni noæu svijetleæi im putem kojim æe iæi.

Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go.

20 I dao si im dobri svoj duh da ih urazumljuje, i mane svoje nijesi ustegao od usta njihovijeh, i vode si im dao u žeði njihovoj.

And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for their thirst.

21 I èetrdeset godina hranio si ih u pustinji, ništa im nije nedostajalo: odijelo im ne ovetša i noge im ne otekoše.

Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was wanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were not worn.

22 I dao si im carstva i narode, i podijelio si ih po krajevima, jer naslijediše zemlju Sionovu, zemlju cara Esevonskoga, i zemlju cara Vasanskoga;

And thou gavest them kingdoms, and nations, and didst divide lots for them: and they possessed the land of Sehon, and the land of the king of Hesebon, and the land of Og king of Basan.

23 I umnožio si sinove njihove kao zvijezde nebeske, i uveo si ih u zemlju za koju si rekao ocima njihovijem da æe uæi u nju i naslijediti je.

And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to their fathers, that they should go in and possess it.

24 I uðoše sinovi njihovi i naslijediše zemlju, i pokorio si im Hananeje stanovnike zemaljske i predao ih u njihove ruke, i careve njihove i narode zemaljske, da èine od njih što im je volja.

And the children came and possessed the land, and thou didst humble before them the inhabitants of the land, the Chanaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as it pleased them.

25 I tako uzeše tvrde gradove i zemlju rodnu, i naslijediše kuæe pune svakoga dobra, studence iskopane, vinograde, maslinike i voæke mnoge, i jedoše i nasitiše se i ugojiše se, i blagovahu po velikoj tvojoj dobroti.

And they took strong cities and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods: cisterns made by others, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: and they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and abounded with delight in thy great goodness.

26 Ali te razgnjeviše i odmetnuše se tebe: baciše zakon tvoj za leða i proroke tvoje pobiše, koji im svjedoèahu da bi ih obratili k tebi, i huliše veoma.

But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great blasphemies.

27 Zato si ih davao u ruke neprijateljima njihovijem koji ih muèiše. A kad u nevolji svojoj vikaše k tebi, ti si ih uslišio s neba i po velikoj milosti svojoj davao si im izbavitelje, koji ih izbavljaše iz ruku neprijatelja njihovijeh.

And thou gavest them into the hands of their enemies, and they afflicted them. And in the time of their tribulation they cried to thee, and thou heardest from heaven, and according to the multitude of thy tender mercies thou gavest them saviours, to save them from the hands of their enemies.

28 Ali èim otpoèinuše, opet èiniše zlo pred tobom, zato si ih ostavljao u ruku neprijatelja njihovijeh da vladaju njima; a kad se obraæaše i vikaše k tebi, ti si ih uslišio s neba i izbavljao ih po milosti svojoj mnogo puta.

But after they had rest, they returned to do evil in thy sight: and thou leftest them in the hand of their enemies, and they had dominion over them. Then they returned, and cried to thee: and thou heardest from heaven, and deliveredst them many times in thy mercies.

29 I opominjao si ih da bi ih obratio k zakonu svojemu, ali oni bijahu obijesni i ne slušaše zapovijesti tvojih i griješiše o tvoje zakone, koje ko vrši živ æe biti kroz njih; i izmièuæi ramena svoja otvrdnuše vratom svojim i ne slušaše.

And thou didst admonish them to return to thy law. But they dealt proudly, and hearkened not to thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

30 I trpio si ih mnogo godina opominjuæi ih duhom svojim preko proroka svojih; ali ne slušaše; tada si ih dao u ruke narodima zemaljskim.

And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst testify against them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and they heard not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people of the lands.

31 Ali radi milosti svoje velike nijesi dao da sasvijem propadnu niti si ih ostavio, jer si Bog milostiv i žalostiv.

Yet in thy very many mercies thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them: because thou art a merciful and gracious God.

32 Sada dakle, Bože naš, Bože veliki, silni i strašni, koji èuvaš zavjet i milost, nemoj da je malo pred tobom što nas snaðe sva ova muka, careve naše, knezove i sveštenike naše i proroke naše i oce naše i sav narod tvoj od vremena careva Asirskih do danas.

Now therefore our God, great, strong and terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which hath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the king of Assur, until this day.

33 Ti si pravedan u svemu što nas je snašlo, jer si ti pravo uèinio a mi smo bezbožno radili.

And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.

34 I carevi naši, knezovi naši i oci naši ne izvršivaše zakona tvojega niti mariše za zapovijesti tvoje i svjedoèanstva tvoja, kojima si im svjedoèio.

Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies which thou hast testified among them.

35 Jer u carstvu svom i u velikom dobru tvom koje si im èinio, i u zemlji prostranoj i rodnoj koju si im dao, ne služiše tebi niti se povratiše od zlijeh djela svojih.

And they have not served thee in their kingdoms, and in thy manifold goodness, which thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land, which thou deliveredst before them, nor did they return from their most wicked devices.

36 Evo, mi smo danas robovi; i još u zemlji, koju si dao ocima našim da jedu rod njezin i dobra njezina, evo mi smo robovi u njoj.

Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which thou gavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good things thereof, and we ourselves are servants in it.

37 I ona rod svoj obilati raða carevima koje si postavio nad nama za grijehe naše, i koji gospodare nad našim tjelesima i nad stokom našom po svojoj volji, te smo u velikoj tjeskobi.

And the fruits thereof grow up for the kings, whom thou hast set over us for our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our beasts, according to their will, and we are in great tribulation.

38 A radi svega toga èinimo tvrd zavjet i pišemo, a knezovi naši, Leviti naši, sveštenici naši peèate.

And because of all this we ourselves make a covenant, and write it, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests sign it.