- The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, because as yet I had said nothing to the Jews or the priests or nobles or officials or any others who would be doing the work.
- Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace."
- I also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me and what the king had said to me. They replied, "Let us start rebuilding." So they began this good work.
- But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. "What is this you are doing?" they asked. "Are you rebelling against the king?"
- I answered them by saying, "The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it."
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- 我往那裡去、我作甚麼事、官長都不知道.我還沒有告訴猶大平民、祭司、貴冑、官長、和其餘作工的人。
- 以後、我對他們說、我們所遭的難、耶路撒冷怎樣荒涼、城門被火焚燒、你們都看見了.來罷、我們重建耶路撒冷的城牆、免得再受凌辱。
- 我告訴他們我 神施恩的手怎樣幫助我、並王對我所說的話.他們就說、我們起來建造罷。於是他們奮勇作這善工。
- 但和倫人參巴拉、並為奴的亞捫人多比雅、和亞拉伯人基善、聽見就嗤笑我們、藐視我們、說、你們作甚麼呢.要背叛王麼。
- 我回答他們說、天上的 神必使我們亨通.我們作他僕人的、要起來建造.你們卻在耶路撒冷無分、無權、無紀念。
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