尼6:1 参巴拉、多比雅、阿拉伯人基善和我们其余的仇敌听见我重建好了城墙，城墙再没有破口。不过那时我还没有在城门上装上门扇。
尼6:1 Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways);
尼6:2 参巴拉和基善就差派人来见我说：“请你来，我们在阿那平原上的一个村庄会面吧！”其实他们想要谋害我。
尼6:2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying, Come, let us have a meeting in one of the little towns in the lowland of Ono. But their purpose was to do me evil.
尼6:3 于是我差派使者去见他们说：“我正在进行大工程，不能去。我怎能放下这工程，去见你们，使这工程停顿呢？”
尼6:3 And I sent men to them saying, I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come down: is the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come down to you?
尼6:4 他们连续四次这样差派人来见我，我都这样回复他们。
尼6:4 And four times they sent to me in this way, and I sent them the same answer.
尼6:5 参巴拉第五次这样差派他的仆人来见我，手里拿着一封没有封口的信。
尼6:5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me a fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
尼6:6 信上写着：“在各民族中有这样的传说，迦施慕也说：‘你和犹大人阴谋造反，所以你才重建城墙，据说，你还想要作他们的王。’
尼6:6 And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpose to be their king;
尼6:7 你又设立先知在耶路撒冷指着你宣讲，说：‘犹大有王了。’现在这些话必会传到王那里。所以请你来，我们一起商量商量吧。”
尼6:7 And that you have prophets preaching about you in Jerusalem, and saying, There is a king in Judah: now an account of these things will be sent to the king. So come now, and let us have a discussion.
尼6:8 我就回复他，说：“你说的这些事不是事实，都是你从心里捏造出来的。”
尼6:8 Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, they are only a fiction you have made up yourself.
尼6:9 其实他们众人是在恐吓我们，心里说：“他们的手必软弱，不能再作这工程，不会完工了！”但我的手更坚定作工。
尼6:9 For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.
尼6:10 我来到米希大别的孙子、第来雅的儿子示玛雅的家里；那时，他闭门不出，他说：“我们在 神的殿里，在殿的大堂中会面吧！我们要把殿门关起来，因为他们要来杀你，在夜间来杀你。”
尼6:10 And I went to the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us have a meeting in the house of God, inside the Temple, and let the doors be shut: for they will come to put you to death; truly, in the night they will come to put you to death.
尼6:11 我回答：“像我这样的人，怎可以逃跑呢？哪有像我这样的人，进入圣殿里去保全自己的性命呢？我决不进去！”
尼6:11 And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.
尼6:12 我看出 神并没有差派他，是他自己宣讲这话攻击我，因为多比雅和参巴拉收买了他。
尼6:12 Then it became clear to me that God had not sent him: he had given this word of a prophet against me himself: and Tobiah and Sanballat had given him money to do so.
尼6:13 他被收买，是要使我惧怕，照着他说的去作，以致犯罪，他们就破坏我的名声来毁谤我。
尼6:13 For this reason they had given him money, in order that I might be overcome by fear and do what he said and do wrong, and so they would have reason to say evil about me and put shame on me.
尼6:14 “我的 神啊，求你记住多比雅和参巴拉，按着他们所行的报应他们；也要报应女先知挪亚底和其余的先知，因为他们恐吓我。”
尼6:14 Keep in mind, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat and what they did, and Noadiah, the woman prophet, and the rest of the prophets whose purpose was to put fear into me.
尼6:15 以禄月二十五日，城墙建成，整个工程共享了五十二天。
尼6:15 So the wall was complete on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
尼6:16 我们所有的仇敌听见了，我们四围所有的民族都惧怕，敌人的声势一落千丈，他们都承认这工程是靠着我们 神的帮助完成的。
尼6:16 And when our haters had news of this, all the nations round about us were full of fear and were greatly shamed, for they saw that this work had been done by our God.
尼6:17 在这段日子，犹大人的贵族写了许多信给多比雅，多比雅也常常回信给他们。
尼6:17 And further, in those days the chiefs of Judah sent a number of letters to Tobiah, and his letters came to them.
尼6:18 在犹大有许多人与多比雅结盟；因为他是亚拉的儿子、示迦尼的女婿，并且他的儿子约哈难娶了比利迦的儿子米书兰的女儿为妻。
尼6:18 For in Judah there were a number of people who had made an agreement by oath with him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah, the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken as his wife the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah.
尼6:19 不但这样，他们也常常在我面前提起多比雅的善行，又把我说的话传给他；多比雅又常常寄信来恐吓我。
尼6:19 And they said much before me of the good he had done, and gave him accounts of my words. And Tobiah sent letters with the purpose of causing me fear.