Nehemiah 2
1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not in times past been sad 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 Therefore the king said to me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was very greatly afraid,
I reèe mi car: što si lica nevesela, kad nijesi bolestan? nije drugo nego tuga u srcu. A ja se uplaših vrlo.
3 And said to the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and its gates are 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, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
A car mi reèe: šta hoæeš? Tada se pomolih Bogu nebeskomu,
5 And I said to the king, If it should please the king, and if thy servant hath found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, 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 And the king said to me, (the queen also sitting by him, ) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
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 should please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may let me pass through till I come into 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 palace which is near to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon 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 servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there had come a man 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 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, except the beast that I rode upon.
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 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and their 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 gate of the fountain, and to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the beast 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 viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
Zato jahah uz potok po noæi i razgledah zid, pa se vratih na vrata od doline, i tako doðoh natrag.
16 And the rulers knew not 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 that 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 said I to them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and its gates are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we may be no more a reproach.
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 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king’s words that he had spoken to me. And they said, Let us rise and build. So they strengthened their hands for this 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, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they mocked, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye 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, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye 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.
