Nehemiah 6

1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—

1 参巴拉、多比雅、阿拉伯人基善和我们其余的敌人听说我已修完城墙，没有留下任何缺口——那时我还没有为城门安上门扇——

2 Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm me.

2 参巴拉和基善就派人告诉我说：“来，我们在阿挪平原的一个村庄见面吧。”其实他们想要害我。

3 So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to go down to you?”

3 我派使者回复他们说：“我正在做一件大工程，不能下去见你们。我怎能停止工作下去见你们呢？”

4 Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.

4 他们四次派人来告诉我，每次我都这样拒绝了。

5 The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same message by his young servant, who had in his hand an unsealed letter

5 参巴拉第五次派人送来一封未封口的信，

6 that read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,

6 上面写着：“各国都在谣传，基善也说，你和犹太人计划谋反，因而才修建城墙，据说你要做他们的王。

7 and you have even appointed prophets in Jerusalem to proclaim on your behalf: ‘There is a king in Judah.’ Soon these rumors will reach the ears of the king. So come, let us confer together.”

7 你还派先知在耶路撒冷指着你宣讲说，‘犹大有王了。’如今王必听到这些传闻。所以你还是来与我们一同商议吧。”

8 Then I sent him this reply: “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”

8 我就派人答复他说：“你所说的并非事实，是你心里捏造的。”

9 For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will never be finished.” But now, my God, strengthen my hands.

9 因为他们想恐吓我们，以为我们会吓得手发软，无法完成工程。但上帝啊，求你使我的手有力量！

10 Later, I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house. He said: “Let us meet at the house of God inside the temple. Let us shut the temple doors because they are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you!”

10 我到米希达别的孙子、第来雅的儿子示玛雅的家中，那时他正闭门不出。他对我说：“我们在上帝的殿里会面，要关上殿门，因为他们要来杀你，要在夜间杀你。”

11 But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Should one like me go into the temple to save his own life? I will not go!”

11 但我回答说：“像我这样的人岂能逃跑？岂能进入殿里保命？我决不进去。”

12 I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

12 我察觉上帝并没有差派他，他是被多比雅和参巴拉收买才说预言攻击我的。

13 He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would sin by doing as he suggested, so they could give me a bad name in order to discredit me.

13 他们收买他是为了恐吓我，使我依从他去犯罪，好毁坏我的名声来羞辱我。

14 O my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who tried to intimidate me.

14 我的上帝啊，多比雅、参巴拉、女先知挪亚底及其他先知企图恐吓我，求你记住他们。

15 So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.

15 以禄月 二十五日城墙竣工，前后用了五十二天。

16 When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and disheartened, for they realized that this task had been accomplished by our God.

16 我们的敌人和周围各国听说后，都感到惧怕和气馁，因为他们知道这工作是在上帝的帮助下完成的。

17 Also in those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters kept coming to them.

17 在那些日子，多比雅和犹大贵族之间多有书信来往。

18 For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, since he was a son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.

18 在犹大有很多人与多比雅结盟，因为他是亚拉的儿子示迦尼的女婿，他儿子约哈难又娶了比利迦的儿子米书兰的女儿为妻。

19 Moreover, these nobles kept reporting to me Tobiah’s good deeds, and they relayed my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.

19 他们常告诉我有关多比雅的善行，并把我的话告诉他。多比雅不断写信恐吓我。