¹王许尼希米重建城墙

¹And 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王却问我：“你既然没有病，为什么面带愁容呢？这没有别的可能，必是心中愁烦。”我就非常惧怕，

²and 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对王说：“愿王万岁，我列祖坟墓所在的城成了荒芜之地，城门被火焚毁，我怎能不面带愁容呢？”

³and 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王问我：“你想要什么呢？”我就向天上的　神祷告，

⁴And the king saith to me, `For what art thou seeking?` and I pray unto the God of the heavens,

⁵然后对王说：“如果王认为好，仆人能在你面前蒙恩宠，就请你差派我往犹大，到我列祖坟墓所在的城去，让我重建那城。”

⁵and 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那时，王后坐在王的旁边。王问我：“你的行程需时多久？你什么时候回来？”王既然认为好，就差派我去，我也定了一个归期。

⁶And 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我又问王：“王若是认为好，请赐给我诏书，通知河西那边的省长准我经过，直至我到达犹大；

⁷And 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又赐诏书，给看守王的园林的亚萨，吩咐他给我木材，建造圣殿的营楼大门的横梁，以及建造城墙和我要入住的房屋。”因为我的　神施恩的手帮助我，王就赐给我这一切。

⁸and 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于是我到了河西那边的省长那里去，把王的诏书交给他们；王又派了军长和马兵护送我。

⁹And 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和伦人参巴拉和作臣仆的亚扪人多比雅听见有人来到，要为以色列求利益，他们就非常恼怒。

¹⁰and 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尼希米夜间巡视城墙我到了耶路撒冷，在那里停留了三天。

¹¹And I come in unto Jerusalem, and I am there three days,

¹²我在夜间起来，和几个人一起出去，我没有告诉任何人我的　神使我定意要为耶路撒冷作的事，除了我所骑的一头牲口以外，没有带着别的牲口。

¹²and 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我夜间出了谷门，向着龙泉走去，到了粪门，视察耶路撒冷破坏了的城墙和被火焚毁的城门。

¹³And 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我又往前走，到了泉门和王池，因为地方不够让我骑着牲口过去，

¹⁴And 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我只得在夜间沿溪而上，视察城墙，然后转回，经过谷门，回到城里。

¹⁵and 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没有一个官长知道我去过什么地方，作了什么事。我也一直没有告诉犹大人、或祭司、或贵胄、或官长，或其余作工的人。

¹⁶And 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尼希米鼓励人民重建城墙后来我对他们说：“你们都看见我们遭遇的患难：耶路撒冷成了荒芜之地，城门被火焚毁，你们都来吧！让我们重建耶路撒冷的城墙，免得我们再受凌辱。”

¹⁷and 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我告诉他们，我的　神施恩的手怎样帮助我，以及王对我所说的话；他们就说：“我们要起来建造！”于是他们奋勇着手作这善工。

¹⁸And 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但和伦人参巴拉和作臣仆的亚扪人多比雅，以及阿拉伯人基善听见了，就讥笑我们，藐视我们，说：“你们在干什么？你们要背叛王吗？”

¹⁹And 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我回答他们说：“天上的　神必使我们成功；我们是他的仆人，我们要起来建造，但你们在耶路撒冷无分、无权，无人记念。”

²⁰And 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.`