¹But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

¹In ko je slišal Sanbalat, da stavimo obzidje, mu to silno zamrzi in se razjezi ter zasmehuje Jude.

²And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

²In govori pred brati svojimi in pred vojsko v Samariji in reče: Kaj delajo ti slabotni Judje? Ali naj se jim to pripusti? Bodo li darovali? bodo li neki dan dokončali? hočejo li v življenje povrniti kamenje z grobljišča, ki je vendar sežgano?

³Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

³Tobija Amonec, stoječ poleg njega, reče: Karkoli naj zidajo, če lisica pride nanj, poruši njih kameneni zid!

⁴Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

⁴Poslušaj, o naš Bog, ker smo zaničevani, in obrni njih zasmehovanje njim na glavo ter izroči jih oplenjenju v deželi ujetništva!

⁵And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

⁵Ne zakrivaj njih krivice in ne izbriši njih greha izpred obličja svojega! Ker so te dražili v jezo spričo zidalcev. –

⁶So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

⁶Mi pa smo zidali obzidje, in smo sklenili ves zid okrog do polovice višave, kajti ljudstvo je imelo pogum za delo.

⁷But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

⁷Ko pa so slišali Sanbalat in Tobija in Arabci in Amonci in Asdodci, da napreduje popravljanje zidovja jeruzalemskega in da že zazidavamo, kar je bilo razdrto, tedaj se silno razjeze.

⁸And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

⁸In vsi se vkup zarote, da pojdejo bojevat se zoper Jeruzalem in delat zmešnjavo v njem.

⁹Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

⁹Mi pa smo molili k Bogu svojemu in postavili stražo zoper nje, dan in noč, boječ se jih.

¹⁰And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

¹⁰In Juda reče: Moč je bremenarjem oslabela in groblje so še velike, tako da ne moremo zidati zidu.

¹¹And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.

¹¹Naši nasprotniki so pa rekli: Ne bodo zvedeli, ne videli, dokler ne pridemo mednje ter jih pobijemo, in tako ustavimo delo.

¹²And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.

¹²Zgodi se pa, ko so prišli Judje, ki so poleg njih prebivali, in so nam dobro desetkrat povedali, od vseh krajev: Morate se vrniti k nam!

¹³Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

¹³tedaj sem postavil na spodnje kraje prostora za zidom, na goljave, ljudstvo po njih rodovinah ž njih meči, sulicami in loki.

¹⁴And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

¹⁴In ko sem vse ogledal, sem vstal in velel plemenitnikom in načelnikom in drugemu ljudstvu: Nikar se jih ne bojte, spominjajte se Gospoda, velikega in groznega, in bojujte se za brate svoje, za sinove in hčere svoje, za žene in hiše svoje!

¹⁵And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.

¹⁵Ko so pa slišali sovražniki naši, da nam je bilo povedano, in je Bog uničil njih naklep, smo se vrnili vsi na zid, vsak k delu svojemu.

¹⁶And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

¹⁶In bilo je od tega dne, da je polovica mojih hlapcev opravljala delo, druga polovica pa je držala sulice in ščite, loke in oklepe, in poglavarji so stali za vso družino Judovo,

¹⁷They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.

¹⁷ki je delala na zidu. In bremenarji so nakladali, vsak z eno roko delajoč, z drugo pa držeč orožje.

¹⁸For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

¹⁸In zidar je vsak imel meč pripasan k ledju, in tako so zidali. In trobentač je stal poleg mene.

¹⁹And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.

¹⁹In dejal sem plemenitnikom in načelnikom in drugemu ljudstvu: Dela je veliko in na široko in daleč smo narazen raztrošeni po zidu;

²⁰In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.

²⁰na kateremkoli kraju zaslišite trobente glas, tja se zberite k nam. Bog naš se bo bojeval za nas!

²¹So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

²¹Tako smo se trudili pri delu in polovica jih je držala sulice od jutranje zarje, dokler so zvezde prisvetile.

²²Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.

²²Tudi sem velel tisti čas ljudstvu: Slednji ostani s hlapcem svojim čez noč v Jeruzalemu, da nam bodo po noči v stražo in po dne za delo!Niti jaz, ne bratje moji, ne možje na straži za mano, nihče ni slekel obleke, vsakemu je bilo orožje ob desnici.

²³So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.

²³Niti jaz, ne bratje moji, ne možje na straži za mano, nihče ni slekel obleke, vsakemu je bilo orožje ob desnici.