Neemias 4
1 E succedeu que, ouvindo Sanballat que edificavamos o muro, ardeu em ira, e se indignou muito; e escarneceu dos judeos.
And it came to pass, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, that it displeased him, and he became very angry, and he mocked at the Jews.
2 E fallou na presença de seus irmãos, e do exercito de Samaria, e disse: Que fazem estes fracos judeos? permittir-se-lhes-ha isto? sacrificarão? acabal-o-hão n'um só dia? vivificarão dos montões do pó as pedras que foram queimadas?
And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will people suffer them [to build]? will they sacrifice? will they complete it in one day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish, seeing that they have been burnt?
3 E estava com elle Tobias, o ammonita, e disse: Ainda que edifiquem, comtudo, vindo uma raposa, derrubará facilmente o seu muro de pedra.
And Tobiyah the 'Ammonite was near him, and he said, Even what they are building, if a fox were to run up, he would readily break through their stone wall.
4 Ouve, ó nosso Deus, que somos tão desprezados, e torna o seu opprobrio sobre a sua cabeça, e faze com que sejam um despojo, na terra do captiveiro.
Hear, O our God! how we are become a scorn; and bring their reproach back upon their own head, and give them up for prey in the land of captivity.
5 E não cubras a sua iniquidade, e não se risque diante de ti o seu peccado, pois que te irritaram defronte dos edificadores.
And cover not up their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have taunted [us] in the presence of the builders.
6 Porém edificámos o muro, e todo o muro se cerrou até sua metade: porque o coração do povo se inclinava a trabalhar.
But we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together up to the half thereof; for the people had a heart to work.
7 E succedeu que, ouvindo Sanballat e Tobias, e os arabios, e os ammonitas, e os asdoditas, que tanto ia crescendo a reparação dos muros de Jerusalem, que já as roturas se começavam a tapar, iraram-se sobremodo,
And it came to pass, when Sanballat and Tobiyah, and the Arabians, and the 'Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were restored, and that the breaches began to be closed up, that it displeased them greatly.
8 E ligaram-se entre si todos, para virem guerrear a Jerusalem, e para os desviarem do seu intento.
And they conspired all of them together to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to do it an injury.
9 Porém nós orámos ao nosso Deus, e pozemos uma guarda contra elles, de dia e de noite, por causa d'elles.
But we prayed unto our God, and set a watch over them day and night, because of the others.
10 Então disse Judah: Já desfalleceram as forças dos acarretadores, e o pó é muito, e nós não poderemos edificar o muro
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of the burden is failing, and there is much rubbish; and we are not able to build on the wall.
11 Disseram porém os nossos inimigos: Nada saberão d'isto, nem verão, até que entremos no meio d'elles, e os matemos; assim faremos cessar a obra.
And our adversaries said, “They shall not know, nor see until we come in the midst of them, and slay them, and so stop the work.”
12 E succedeu que, vindo os judeos que habitavam entre elles, dez vezes nol-o disseram, de todos os logares, porque tornavam a nós.
And it came to pass, when the Jews who dwelt near them came, that they said unto us ten times, “From all places whence ye may return home [they intend to come] over us.”
13 Pelo que puz guardas nos logares baixos por detraz do muro e nos altos: e puz ao povo pelas suas familias com as suas espadas, com as suas lanças, e com os seus arcos.
I placed therefore on the lower parts of the place on the naked rocks behind the wall—there I placed the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
14 E olhei, e levantei-me, e disse aos nobres, e aos magistrados, e ao resto do povo: Não os temaes: lembrae-vos do grande e terrivel Senhor, e pelejae pelos vossos irmãos, vossos filhos, vossas mulheres e vossas casas.
And I looked [about], and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not afraid of them: think on the Lord, the great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
15 E succedeu que, ouvindo os nossos inimigos que nol-o fizeram saber, e que Deus tinha dissipado o conselho d'elles, todos voltámos ao muro, cada um á sua obra.
And it came to pass, that, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, God frustrated their counsel: and we returned, all of us, to the wall, every one unto his work.
16 E succedeu que desde aquelle dia metade dos meus moços trabalhava na obra, e metade d'elles tinha as lanças, os escudos, os arcos, e as couraças; e os chefes estavam por detraz de toda a casa de Judah.
And it came to pass from that day forth, that the half of my young men wrought at the work, while the other half of them were holding the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the princes stood behind all the house of Judah.
17 Os que edificavam o muro, e os que traziam as cargas, e os que carregavam, cada um com uma mão fazia a obra e na outra tinha as armas.
Those that built on the wall, and those that bore burdens, with those that loaded, —every one with one of his hands wrought on the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
18 E os edificadores cada um trazia a sua espada cingida aos lombos, e edificavam: e o que tocava a trombeta estava junto comigo.
And the builders had every one his sword fastened around his loins while they were building; and he that blew the cornet stood alongside of me.
19 E disse eu aos nobres, e aos magistrados, e ao resto do povo: Grande e extensa é a obra, e nós estamos apartados do muro, longe uns dos outros.
And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and extensive, and we are separated upon the wall, distant one from another.
20 No logar onde ouvirdes o som da buzina ali vos ajuntareis comnosco; o nosso Deus pelejará por nós.
In what place [then] ye hear the sound of the cornet, thither must ye assemble unto us: our God will fight for us.
21 Assim trabalhavamos na obra: e metade d'elles tinha as lanças desde a subida da alva até ao sair das estrellas.
So we labored at the work, while the half of them were holding the spears from the rising of the morning-dawn till the stars appeared.
22 Tambem n'aquelle tempo disse ao povo: Cada um com o seu moço passe a noite em Jerusalem, para que de noite nos sirvam de guarda, e de dia na obra.
Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his young man lodge within Jerusalem, so that they may be in the night a guard to us, and during the day for the labor.
23 E nem eu, nem meus irmãos, nem meus moços, nem os homens da guarda que me seguiam largavamos os nossos vestidos: cada um tinha suas armas e agua.
And neither I, nor my brothers, nor my young men, nor the men of the guard who followed me—none of us took off our clothes, no one leaving them off even for washing himself.
