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

¹A stalo sa, keď počul Sanballat, že znova staviame múr, rozpálil sa hnevom a veľmi sa rozľútil a posmieval sa Židom

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?”

²a povedal pred svojimi bratmi a pred vojskom Samárie a riekol: Čo to robia tí mizerní Židia? Či im to ponechajú? Či budú obetovať? Či dokončia za deň? Či azda vzkriesia tie kamene z hromád prachu, ktoré sú predsa spálené?!

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.”

³A Tobiáš Ammonský bol vedľa neho a povedal: Ale aj to, čo vystavia, ak prijde hore líška, sborí ich kamenný múr. -

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;

⁴Počuj, náš Bože, lebo opovrhujú nami, a obráť ich potupu na ich hlavu a vydaj ich v lúpež v zemi zajatia.

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

⁵A neprikry ich neprávosti, a ich hriech nech nie je vytretý zpred tvojej tvári, pretože ťa popudzovali pred staväjúcimi.

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

⁶A tak sme staväli múr, až bol celý múr spojený až do svojej polovice. A srdce ľudu bolo ochotné konať.

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;

⁷A stalo sa, keď počul Sanballat, Tobiáš, Arabi, Ammoniti a Ašdóďania, že sa opravujú múry Jeruzalema, že sa začaly zatarasovať trhliny, veľmi sa rozpálili hnevom.

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

⁸A spikli sa všetci dovedna, že prijdú bojovať proti Jeruzalemu a že v ňom spôsobia zmätok.

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

⁹Preto sme sa modlili svojmu Bohu a postavili sme stráž proti nim vodne i vnoci, pretože sme sa ich báli.

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.”

¹⁰A Júda povedal: Klesá sila nosiča, a narúcaného prachu je mnoho, nuž my nebudeme môcť staväť na múre.

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

¹¹A naši protivníci riekli: Nezvedia ani neuvidia, len až vojdeme do ich stredu a pobijeme ich a zastavíme to dielo.

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.”

¹²A stalo sa, keď prišli Židia, ktorí bývali vedľa nich, že nám riekli aj desaťkrát, a to z každého toho miesta, vraj navráťte sa k nám!

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.

¹³Preto som postavil stráž od dola miesta za múrom, na otvorených miestach, a postavil som ľud po čeľadiach s ich mečami, s ich kopijami a s ich lukami.

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.”

¹⁴A keď som to videl, vstal som a riekol som popredným a pohlavárom správy a ostatným z ľudu: Nebojte sa ich, ale pamätajte na Pána, veľkého a strašného, a bojujte za svojich bratov, za svojich synov a za svoje dcéry, za svoje ženy a za svoje domy!

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.

¹⁵A stalo sa, keď počuli naši nepriatelia, že nám je to oznámené, vtedy zmaril Bôh ich radu, a tak sme sa všetci navrátili k múru, každý ku svojej práci.

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.

¹⁶Ale bolo od toho dňa tak, že jedna polovica mojich sluhov konala prácu, a ich druhá polovica držala kopije, štíty a luky a mala oblečené panciere, a kniežatá stály za celým domom Júdovým.

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;

¹⁷A teda tí, ktorí staväli na múre, jako aj tí, ktorí nosili bremä, robili; každý jednou svojou rukou robil dielo a druhou držal zbraň.

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

¹⁸A tak tedy tí, ktorí staväli, každý mal svoj meč pripásaný na svojich bedrách, a tak staväli, a trubač stál vedľa mňa.

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.

¹⁹A povedal som popredným a pohlavárom správy jako aj ostatným z ľudu: Práce je mnoho a je rozsiahla, a my sme roztrúsení po múre, ďaleko jeden od druhého.

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

²⁰Preto na miesto, z ktorého by ste počuli zvuk trúby, ta sa shromaždíte k nám. Náš Bôh bude bojovať za nás.

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

²¹A tak sme pracovali na diele, a polovica ich držala kopije od skorého rána, ako vzišla zora, až dokiaľ nevyšly hviezdy.

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.”

²²Toho času som tiež povedal ľudu: Každý aj so svojím sluhom nech nocuje vnútri v Jeruzaleme, a budú nám vnoci strážou a vodne budú konať prácu.

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.

²³A tak ani ja ani moji bratia ani moji služobníci ani mužovia stráže, ktorí boli za mnou, nevyzliekali sme svojich šiat. Každý išiel so svojou zbraňou po vodu.