Nehemiah 2
1 In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.
A mjeseca Nisana godine dvadesete Artakserksa cara bijaše vino pred njim, i ja uzev vino dadoh ga caru. A preðe ne bijah neveseo pred njim.
2 The 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.
I reèe mi car: što si lica nevesela, kad nijesi bolestan? nije drugo nego tuga u srcu. A ja se uplaših vrlo.
3 I 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?”
I rekoh caru: da je živ car dovijeka! kako ne bih bio lica nevesela, kad je grad gdje su grobovi mojih otaca opustio i vrata mu ognjem spaljena?
4 Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
A car mi reèe: šta hoæeš? Tada se pomolih Bogu nebeskomu,
5 I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”
I rekoh caru: ako je ugodno caru i ako ti je mio sluga tvoj, pošlji me u Judeju u grad gdje su grobovi otaca mojih da ga sagradim.
6 The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), “How long will your journey be? When will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for him.
A car mi reèe, a žena njegova sjeðaše do njega: koliko ti vremena treba na put, i kad æeš se vratiti? I bi ugodno caru, i pusti me kad mu kazah vrijeme.
7 Moreover 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;
Potom rekoh caru: ako je ugodno caru, da mi se da knjiga na knezove preko rijeke da me prate dokle ne doðem u Judeju,
8 and 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 will occupy.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.
I knjiga na Asafa èuvara šume careve da mi da drva za brvna na vrata od dvora uz dom Božji i za zid gradski i za kuæu u koju æu uæi. I dade mi car, jer dobra ruka Boga mojega bješe nada mnom.
9 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
I tako doðoh ka knezovima preko rijeke, i dadoh im knjige careve. A car posla sa mnom vojvode i konjike.
10 When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
A kad to èu Sanavalat Oronjanin i Tovija sluga Amonac, bi im vrlo mrsko što doðe èovjek da se postara za dobro sinovima Izrailjevijem.
11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Potom doðoh u Jerusalim, i bih ondje tri dana.
12 I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me except the animal that I rode on.
Pa ustah noæu s nekoliko ljudi, a nikomu ne kazah što mi je Bog moj dao u srce da uèinim u Jerusalimu; i ne imah kljuseta sa sobom osim onoga na kom jahah.
13 I went out by night by the valley gate toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate; and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.
I izidoh noæu na vrata od doline, na izvor zmajevski, i na vrata gnojna, i razgledah zidove Jerusalimske kako bjehu razvaljeni i kako mu vrata bjehu ognjem popaljena.
14 Then 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.
Otuda proðoh na izvorska vrata i na carsko jezero, a ondje ne bješe mjesta da kljuse poda mnom prijeðe.
15 Then I went up in the night by the brook and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
Zato jahah uz potok po noæi i razgledah zid, pa se vratih na vrata od doline, i tako doðoh natrag.
16 The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not 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.
Ali poglavari ne znadijahu kuda sam išao ni šta sam radio, jer do tada ne bijah ništa rekao ni Judejcima ni sveštenicima ni knezovima ni poglavarima ni drugima koji upravljahu poslom.
17 Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”
Zato im rekoh: vidite u kakvom smo zlu, Jerusalim pust i vrata mu popaljena ognjem; dajte da zidamo zidove Jerusalimske, da više ne budemo rug.
18 I told them about the hand of my God which was good on me, and also about 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.
I kazah im kako je dobra ruka Boga mojega nada mnom i rijeèi careve koje mi je rekao. Tada rekoše: ustanimo i zidajmo. I ukrijepiše im se ruke na dobro.
19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, 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?”
A kad to èu Sanavalat Oronjanin i Tovija sluga Amonac i Gisem Arapin, potsmijevaše nam se i rugaše nam se govoreæi: šta to radite? da se neæete odmetnuti caru?
20 Then I answered 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.”
A ja im odgovorih i rekoh: Bog nebeski daæe nam sreæu, a mi sluge njegove ustasmo i zidamo; ali vi nemate dijela ni prava ni spomena u Jerusalimu.
