1But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, 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.
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?”
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, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”
3Tobija Amonec, stoječ poleg njega, reče: Karkoli naj zidajo, če lisica pride nanj, poruši njih kameneni zid!
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;
4Poslušaj, o naš Bog, ker smo zaničevani, in obrni njih zasmehovanje njim na glavo ter izroči jih oplenjenju v deželi ujetništva!
5don’t cover their iniquity, and don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
5Ne zakrivaj njih krivice in ne izbriši njih greha izpred obličja svojega! Ker so te dražili v jezo spričo zidalcev. –
6So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: 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 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;
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 they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
8In vsi se vkup zarote, da pojdejo bojevat se zoper Jeruzalem in delat zmešnjavo v njem.
9But we made our prayer to 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.
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.”
10In Juda reče: Moč je bremenarjem oslabela in groblje so še velike, tako da ne moremo zidati zidu.
11Our adversaries said, “They shall not know, neither see, until we come into their midst, and kill 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.
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.”
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 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.
13tedaj sem postavil na spodnje kraje prostora za zidom, na goljave, ljudstvo po njih rodovinah ž njih meči, sulicami in loki.
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.”
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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;
17ki je delala na zidu. In bremenarji so nakladali, vsak z eno roko delajoč, z drugo pa držeč orožje.
18and the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who 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.
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.
19In dejal sem plemenitnikom in načelnikom in drugemu ljudstvu: Dela je veliko in na široko in daleč smo narazen raztrošeni po zidu;
20Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”
20na kateremkoli kraju zaslišite trobente glas, tja se zberite k nam. Bog naš se bo bojeval za nas!
21So we worked in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning until 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 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.”
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 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.
23Niti jaz, ne bratje moji, ne možje na straži za mano, nihče ni slekel obleke, vsakemu je bilo orožje ob desnici.