Книга Неемии 2
1 И бысть в месяце Нисане лета двадесятаго Артаксеркса царя, и вино бе предо мною: и взях вино и дах царю, и не бе ин пред ним.
And it cometh to pass, in the month of Nisan, the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, wine [is] before him, and I lift up the wine, and give to the king, and I had not been sad before him;
2 И рече ми царь: чесо ради лице твое прискорбно есть, а неси болезнуяй? И несть сие, разве скорбь сердца. И убояхся зело
and the king saith to me, 'Wherefore [is] thy face sad, and thou not sick? this is nothing except sadness of heart;' and I fear very much,
3 и рекох царю: царю, во веки живи: како не быти прискорбну лицу моему, понеже град, дом гробов отец моих опусте, и врата его сожжена суть огнем.
and say to the king, 'Let the king to the age live! wherefore should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of the graves of my fathers, [is] a waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?'
4 И рече ми царь: почто о сем ты вопрошаеши? И помолихся Господу Богу небесному
And the king saith to me, 'For what art thou seeking?' and I pray unto the God of the heavens,
5 и рекох ко царю: аще царю видится благо, и аще угоден будет раб твой пред тобою, да послеши мене во Иудею, во град гробов отец моих, и возсозижду его.
and say to the king, 'If to the king [it be] good, and if thy servant be pleasing before thee, that thou send me unto Judah, unto the city of the graves of my fathers, and I built it.'
6 Рече же ми царь, и наложница седяше близ его: до коего времене будет путь твой, и когда возвратишися? И угодно бысть пред лицем царевым, и посла мя, и положих ему время.
And the king saith to me (and the queen is sitting near him), 'How long is thy journey? and when dost thou return?' and it is good before the king, and he sendeth me away, and I set to him a time.
7 И рекох царю: аще царю видится благо, даждь мне послание ко воеводам стран за рекою, да преведут мене, дондеже прииду во Иудею,
And I say to the king, 'If to the king [it be] good, letters let be given to me for the governors beyond the River, that they let me pass over till that I come in unto Judah:
8 и послание ко Асафу стражу дубравы царевы, да даст ми древа покрыти врата столпа дому, и на стены градныхя, и на дом, в оньже вниду. И даде ми царь, якоже рука Божия благая (бе) со мною.
and a letter unto Asaph, keeper of the paradise that the king hath, that he give to me trees for beams [for] the gates of the palace that the house hath, and for the wall of the city, and for the house into which I enter;' and the king giveth to me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
9 И приидох ко воеводам стран за рекою и дах им послание царево: посла же царь со мною началники силы и конницы.
And I come in unto the governors beyond the River, and give to them the letters of the king; and the king sendeth with me heads of a force, and horsemen;
10 И услыша Санаваллат Аронитин и Товиа раб Аммонитин, и зло има бысть, яко прииде человек взыскати блага сыновом Израилевым.
and Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and it is evil to them — a great evil — that a man hath come in to seek good for the sons of Israel.
11 И приидох во Иерусалим и бых ту три дни.
And I come in unto Jerusalem, and I am there three days,
12 И востах нощию аз и мужие не мнози со мною, и ни комуже возвестих, что Бог дает в сердце мое сотворити со Израилем, и скота не бе со мною, токмо скот, на немже аз седях.
and I rise by night, I and a few men with me, and have not declared to a man what my God is giving unto my heart to do for Jerusalem, and there is no beast with me except the beast on which I am riding.
13 И внидох во врата Юдоли нощию, ко устию источника Смоковничнаго и ко вратом Гнойным, и бых размышляя о стене Иерусалимстей разореней и о вратах его пояденых огнем.
And I go out through the gate of the valley by night, and unto the front of the fountain of the dragon, and unto the gate of the dunghill, and I am measuring about the walls of Jerusalem, that are broken down, and its gates consumed with fire.
14 И приидох ко вратом Источника и ко купели цареве, и не бысть места скоту, на немже седях, да пройдет.
And I pass over unto the gate of the fountain, and unto the pool of the king, and there is no place for the beast under me to pass over,
15 И взыдох на стену потока нощию, и размышлях о стене, и бех во вратех Юдоли, и возвратихся.
and I am going up through the brook by night, and am measuring about the wall, and turn back, and come in through the gate of the valley, and turn back.
16 Стрегущии же не ведяху, камо ходих и что аз творю, и Иудеом и священником, и честным и воеводам и прочым творящым дела даже до тогда не сказах.
And the prefects have not known whither I have gone, and what I am doing; and to the Jews, and to the priests, and to the freemen, and to the prefects, and to the rest of those doing the work, hitherto I have not declared [it];
17 И рекох им: вы видите озлобление сие, в немже есмы, како Иерусалим опустошен, и врата его предана огню: приидите, и созиждем стены Иерусалима, и не будем ктому в поношение.
and I say unto them, 'Ye are seeing the evil that we are in, in that Jerusalem [is] waste, and its gates have been burnt with fire; come and we build the wall of Jerusalem, and we are not any more a reproach.'
18 И сказах им руку Божию, яже есть блага со мною, и словеса царева, яже глагола мне, и рекох: востанем и созиждем. И укрепишася руцы их во благое.
And I declare to them the hand of my God that is good upon me, and also the words of the king that he said to me, and they say, 'Let us rise, and we have built;' and they strengthen their hands for good.
19 И услыша Санаваллат Аронитин и Товиа раб Аммонитин и Гисам Аравитин, и посмеяшася нам, и приидоша к нам, и уничижиша, и рекоша: что дело сие, еже вы творите? Еда вы противу царя отметаетеся?
And Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, 'What [is] this thing that ye are doing? against the king are ye rebelling?'
20 И воздах им слово и рекох к ним: Бог Небесе, Той благопоспешит нам, и мы раби Его чистии, (востанем) и созиждем: вам же несть части и правды и памяти во Иерусалиме.
And I return them word, and say to them, 'The God of the heavens — He doth give prosperity to us, and we His servants rise and have built; and to you there is no portion, and right, and memorial in Jerusalem.'
