¹Aga kui Sanballat ja Toobija, araablased, ammonlased ja asdodlased kuulsid, et Jeruusalemma müüride parandamine edenes, et mahakistud kohad hakkasid kinni saama, siis nad vihastusid väga.

¹But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

²Ja nad kõik pidasid üheskoos vandenõu, et tulla Jeruusalemma vastu sõdima ja temale tüli tegema.

²He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”

³Aga me palusime oma Jumalat ja panime nende vastu vahimehi päeval ja öösel, et nende eest kaitset leida.

³Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”

⁴Juudas öeldi: 'Kandja ramm raugeb, prügi on palju - meil pole jaksu ehitada müüri.'

⁴“Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

⁵Meie vaenlased aga mõtlesid: 'Enne kui nad märkavad ja näevad, tuleme meie nende sekka ja tapame nad ning lõpetame töö.'

⁵don’t cover their iniquity, and don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”

⁶Kui juudid, kes elasid nende naabruses, tulid ja ütlesid meile vähemalt kümme korda, et kõigist paigust, kus nad elavad, tullakse meile kallale,

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

⁷siis ma panin mehi madalamatesse paikadesse müüri taha, lahtistele kohtadele, ja seadsin rahva üles suguvõsade kaupa mõõkade, piikide ja ambudega.

⁷But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, then they were very angry;

⁸Siis ma vaatasin ja võtsin kätte ning ütlesin suurnikele ja ülemaile ning muule rahvale: 'Ärge kartke neid! Mõelge suurele ja kardetavale Issandale ja võidelge oma vendade, poegade ja tütarde, naiste ja kodade eest!'

⁸and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

⁹Ja kui meie vaenlased kuulsid, et see meile oli teatavaks saanud ja Jumal nende nõu oli tühistanud, siis me pöördusime kõik tagasi müüri juurde, igaüks oma tööle.

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

¹⁰Ja sellest päevast alates tegid tööd ainult pooled minu noortest meestest ja pooled kandsid piike, kilpe, ambusid ja soomusrüüsid; ja vürstid seisid kogu Juuda soo taga,

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

¹¹kes müüri ehitas. Ja koormakandjad kandsid, tehes ühe käega tööd ja hoides teisega viskoda.

¹¹Our adversaries said, “They shall not know, neither see, until we come into their midst, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”

¹²Ja ehitajail oli ehitades igaühel oma mõõk vööle seotud; ja minu kõrval oli sarvepuhuja.

¹²It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

¹³Ja ma ütlesin suurnikele, ülemaile ja muule rahvale: 'Töö on suur ja laialdane ja me oleme hajali piki müüri, üksteisest kaugel.

¹³Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

¹⁴Aga kust te kuulete sarvehäält, sinna paika kogunege meie juurde! Meie Jumal sõdib meie eest.'

¹⁴I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”

¹⁵Nõnda me siis tegime tööd, aga pooled hoidsid piike, koiduajast kuni tähtede ilmumiseni.

¹⁵It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work.

¹⁶Sel ajal ma ütlesin ka rahvale, et igaüks jääks oma sulasega ööseks Jeruusalemma, et nad oleksid meil öösel valves ja päeval töös.

¹⁶It happened from that time forth, that half of my servants worked in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

¹⁷Ja meie, ei mina ega mu vennad, ei mu sulased ega vahimehed, kes mulle järgnesid, ei võtnud endil riideid seljast; igaüks võttis end lahti ainult vette minnes.

¹⁷They all built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands worked in the work, and with the other held his weapon;

¹⁸and the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.

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

²⁰Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”

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

²²Likewise at the same time said I to the people, “Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.”

²³So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.