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

¹Ora, quando Sambalate ouviu que edificávamos o muro, ardeu em ira,indignou-se muito e escarneceu dos judeus;

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?”

²e falou na presença de seus irmãos e do exército de Samária, dizendo: Que fazem estes fracos judeus? Fortificar-se-ão? Oferecerão sacrifícios? Acabarão a obra num só dia? Vivificarão dos montões de pó as pedras que foram queimadas?

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.”

³Ora, estava ao lado dele Tobias, o amonita, que disse: Ainda que edifiquem,vindo uma raposa derrubará o seu muro de pedra.

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;

⁴Ouve, ó nosso Deus, pois somos tão desprezados; faze recair o opróbrio deles sobre as suas cabaças, e faze com que eles sejam um despojo numa terra de cativeiro.

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

⁵Não cubras a sua iniquidade, e não se risque de diante de ti o seu pecado, pois que te provocaram � ira na presença dos edificadores.

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

⁶Assim edificamos o muro; e todo o muro se completou até a metade da sua altura; porque o coração do povo se inclinava a trabalhar.

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;

⁷Mas, ouvindo Sambalate e Tobias, e os arábios, o amonitas e os asdoditas, que ia avante a reparação dos muros de Jerusalém e que já as brechas se começavam a fechar, iraram-se sobremodo;

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

⁸e coligaram-se todos, para virem guerrear contra Jerusalém e fazer confusão

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

⁹Nós, porém, oramos ao nosso Deus, e pusemos guarda contra eles de dia e de noite.

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.”

¹⁰Então disse Judá: Desfalecem as forças dos carregadores, e há muito escombro; não poderemos edificar o muro.

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

¹¹E os nossos inimigos disseram: Nada saberão nem verão, até que entremos no meio deles, e os matemos, e façamos cessar a obra.

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.”

¹²Mas sucedeu que, vindo os judeus que habitavam entre eles, dez vezes nos disseram: De todos os lugares de onde moram subirão contra nós.

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.

¹³Pelo que nos lugares baixos por detrás do muro e nos lugares abertos, dispus o povo segundo suas famílias com as suas espadas, com as suas lanças, e com os seus arcos.

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.”

¹⁴Olhei, levantei-me, e disse aos nobres, aos magistrados e ao resto do povo: Não os temais! Lembrai-vos do Senhor, grande e temível, e pelejai por vossos irmãos, vossos filhos, vossas filhas, vossas mulheres e vossas casas.

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.

¹⁵Quando os nossos inimigos souberam que nós tínhamos sido avisados, e que Deus tinha dissipado o conselho deles, todos voltamos ao muro, cada um para a sua obra.

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.

¹⁶Desde aquele dia metade dos meus moços trabalhavam na obra, e a outra metade empunhava as lanças, os escudos, os arcos, e as couraças; e os chefes estavam por detrás de toda a casa de Judá.

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;

¹⁷Os que estavam edificando o muro, e os carregadores que levavam as cargas, cada um com uma das mãos fazia a obra e com a outra segurava a sua arma;

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

¹⁸e cada um dos edificadores trazia a sua espada � cinta, e assim edificavam. E o que tocava a trombeta estava no meu lado.

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.

¹⁹Disse eu aos nobres, aos magistrados e ao resto do povo: Grande e extensa é a obra, e nós estamos separados no muro, longe uns dos outros;

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

²⁰em qualquer lugar em que ouvirdes o som da trombeta, ali vos ajuntareis conosco. O nosso Deus pelejará por nós.

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

²¹Assim trabalhávamos na obra; e metade deles empunhava as lanças desde a subida da alva até o sair das estrelas.

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.”

²²Também nesse tempo eu disse ao povo: Cada um com o seu moço pernoite em Jerusalém, para que de noite nos sirvam de guardas, e de dia trabalhem.

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.

²³Desta maneira nem eu, nem meus irmãos, nem meus moços, nem os homens da guarda que me acompanhavam largávamos as nossas vestes; cada um ia com a arma � sua direita.