느헤미야 2

1아닥사스다 왕 이십년 니산월에 왕의 앞에 술이 있기로 내가 들어 왕에게 드렸는데 이 전에는 내가 왕의 앞에서 수색이 없었더니 2왕이 내게 이르시되 네가 병이 없거늘 어찌하여 얼굴에 수색이 있느냐 이는 필연 네 마음에 근심이 있음이로다 그 때에 내가 크게 두려워하여 3왕께 대답하되 왕은 만세수를 하옵소서 나의 열조의 묘실 있는 성읍이 이제까지 황무하고 성문이 소화되었사오니 내가 어찌 얼굴에 수색이 없사오리이까 4왕이 내게 이르시되 그러면 네가 무엇을 원하느냐 하시기로 내가 곧 하늘의 하나님께 묵도하고 5왕에게 고하되 왕이 만일 즐겨하시고 종이 왕의 목전에서 은혜를 얻었사오면 나를 유다 땅 나의 열조의 묘실 있는 성읍에 보내어 그 성을 중건하게 하옵소서 하였는데 6그 때에 왕후도 왕의 곁에 앉았더라 왕이 내게 이르시되 네가 몇날에 행할 길이며 어느 때에 돌아오겠느냐 하고 왕이 나를 보내기를 즐겨하시기로 내가 기한을 정하고 7내가 또 왕에게 아뢰되 왕이 만일 즐겨하시거든 강 서편 총독들에게 내리시는 조서를 내게 주사 저희로 나를 용납하여 유다까지 통과하게 하시고 8또 왕의 삼림 감독 아삽에게 조서를 내리사 저로 전에 속한 영문의 문과 성곽과 나의 거할 집을 위하여 들보 재목을 주게 하옵소서 하매 내 하나님의 선한 손이 나를 도우심으로 왕이 허락하고 9군대 장관과 마병을 보내어 나와 함께 하시기로 내가 강 서편에 있는 총독들에게 이르러 왕의 조서를 전하였더니 10호론 사람 산발랏과 종 되었던 암몬 사람 도비야가 이스라엘 자손을 흥왕케 하려는 사람이 왔다 함을 듣고 심히 근심하더라 11내가 예루살렘에 이르러 거한지 삼일에 12내 하나님이 내 마음을 감화하사 예루살렘을 위하여 행하게 하신 일을 내가 아무 사람에게도 말하지 아니하고 밤에 일어나 두어 사람과 함께 나갈새 내가 탄 짐승 외에는 다른 짐승이 없더라 13그 밤에 골짜기 문으로 나가서 용정으로 분문에 이르는 동안에 보니 예루살렘 성벽이 다 무너졌고 성문은 소화되었더라 14앞으로 행하여 샘문과 왕의 못에 이르러는 탄 짐승이 지나갈 곳이 없는지라 15그 밤에 시내를 좇아 올라가서 성벽을 살펴본 후에 돌이켜 골짜기 문으로 들어와서 돌아왔으나 16방백들은 내가 어디 갔었으며 무엇을 하였는지 알지 못하였고 나도 그 일을 유다 사람들에게나 제사장들에게나 귀인들에게나 방백들에게나 그 외에 일하는 자들에게 고하지 아니하다가 17후에 저희에게 이르기를 우리의 당한 곤경은 너희도 목도하는 바라 예루살렘이 황무하고 성문이 소화되었으니 자, 예루살렘 성을 중건하여 다시 수치를 받지 말자 하고 18또 저희에게 하나님의 선한 손이 나를 도우신 일과 왕이 내게 이른 말씀을 고하였더니 저희의 말이 일어나 건축하자 하고 모두 힘을 내어 이 선한 일을 하려 하매 19호론 사람 산발랏과 종이 되었던 암몬 사람 도비야와 아라비아 사람 게셈이 이 말을 듣고 우리를 업신여기고 비웃어 가로되 너희의 하는 일이 무엇이냐 왕을 배반코자 하느냐 하기로 20내가 대답하여 가로되 하늘의 하나님이 우리로 형통케 하시리니 그의 종 우리가 일어나 건축하려니와 오직 너희는 예루살렘에서 아무 기업도 없고 권리도 없고 명록도 없다 하였느니라

1In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence. 2The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid. 3I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?” 4Then the king said to me, “For what do you make request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven. 5I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.” 6The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), “For how long shall your journey be? And when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time. 7Moreover I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah; 8and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me. 9Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen. 10When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel. 11So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. 12I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on. 13I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal’s well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire. 14Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass. 15Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned. 16The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work. 17Then I said to them, “You see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.” 18I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work. 19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?” 20Then answered I them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”

1Toen geschiedde het in de maand Nisan, in het twintigste jaar van den koning Arthahsasta, als er wijn voor zijn aangezicht was, dat ik den wijn opnam, en gaf hem den koning; nu was ik nooit treurig geweest voor zijn aangezicht. 2Zo zeide de koning tot mij: Waarom is uw aangezicht treurig, zo gij toch niet krank zijt? Dit is niet dan treurigheid des harten. Toen vreesde ik gans zeer. 3En ik zeide tot de koning: De koning leve in eeuwigheid! Hoe zou mijn aangezicht niet treurig zijn, daar de stad, de plaats der begravenissen mijner vaderen, woest is, en haar poorten met vuur verteerd zijn? 4En de koning zeide tot mij: Wat verzoekt gij nu? Toen bad ik tot God van den hemel. 5En ik zeide tot den koning: Zo het den koning goeddunkt, en zo uw knecht voor uw aangezicht aangenaam is, dat gij mij zendt naar Juda, naar de stad der begravenissen mijner vaderen, dat ik ze bouwe. 6Toen zeide de koning tot mij, daar de koningin nevens hem zat: Hoe lang zal uw reis wezen, en wanneer zult gij wederkomen? En het behaagde den koning, dat hij mij zond, als ik hem zekeren tijd gesteld had. 7Voorts zeide ik tot den koning: Zo het den koning goeddunkt, dat men mij brieven geve aan de landvoogden aan gene zijde der rivier, dat zij mij overgeleiden, totdat ik in Juda zal gekomen zijn; 8Ook een brief aan Asaf, den bewaarder van den lusthof, denwelken de koning heeft, dat hij mij hout geve om te zolderen de poorten van het paleis, dat aan het huis is, en tot de stadsmuur, en tot het huis, waar ik intrekken zal. En de koning gaf ze mij, naar de goede hand mijns Gods over mij. 9Toen kwam ik tot de landvoogden aan gene zijde der rivier, en gaf hun de brieven des konings. En de koning had oversten des heirs en ruiteren met mij gezonden. 10Toen nu Sanballat, de Horoniet, en Tobia, de Ammonietische knecht dat hoorden, mishaagde het hun met groot mishagen, dat er een mens gekomen was, om wat goeds te zoeken voor de kinderen Israels. 11En ik kwam te Jeruzalem, en was daar drie dagen. 12Daarna maakte ik mij des nachts op, ik en weinig mannen met mij, en ik gaf geen mens te kennen, wat mijn God in mijn hart gegeven had, om aan Jeruzalem te doen; en er was geen dier met mij, dan het dier, waarop ik reed. 13En ik trok uit bij nacht door de Dalpoort, en voorbij de Drakenfontein, en naar de Mistpoort, en ik brak aan de muren van Jeruzalem, dewelke verscheurd waren, en haar poorten met vuur verteerd. 14En ik ging voort naar de Fonteinpoort, en naar des konings vijver; doch daar was geen plaats voor het dier, om onder mij voort te gaan. 15Toen ging ik op, des nachts, door de beek, en ik brak aan den muur; en ik keerde weder, en kwam in de Dalpoort; alzo keerde ik wederom. 16En de overheden wisten niet, waar ik heengegaan was, en wat ik deed; want ik had tot nog toe den Joden, en den priesteren, en den edelen, en overheden, en den anderen, die het werk deden, niets te kennen gegeven. 17Toen zeide ik tot hen: Gijlieden ziet de ellende, waarin wij zijn, dat Jeruzalem woest is, en haar poorten met vuur verbrand zijn; komt, en laat ons Jeruzalems muur opbouwen; opdat wij niet meer een versmaadheid zijn. 18En ik gaf hun te kennen de hand mijns Gods, Die goed over mij geweest was, als ook de woorden des konings, die hij tot mij gesproken had. Toen zeiden zij: Laat ons op zijn, dat wij bouwen; en zij sterkten hun handen ten goede. 19Als nu Sanballat, de Horoniet, en Tobia, de Ammonietische knecht, en Gesem, de Arabier, dit hoorden, zo bespotten zij ons, en verachtten ons; en zij zeiden: Wat is dit voor een ding, dat gijlieden doet? Wilt gijlieden tegen den koning rebelleren? 20Toen gaf ik hun tot antwoord, en zeide tot hen: God van den hemel, Die zal het ons doen gelukken, en wij, Zijn knechten, zullen ons opmaken en bouwen; maar gijlieden hebt geen deel, noch gerechtigheid, noch gedachtenis in Jeruzalem.