Nehemiah
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The Enemy’s Plot
1Ketika Sanbalat dan Tobia dan Gesyem, orang Arab itu dan musuh-musuh kami yang lain mendengar, bahwa aku telah selesai membangun kembali tembok, sehingga tidak ada lagi lobang, walaupun sampai waktu itu di pintu-pintu gerbang belum kupasang pintunya, 2maka Sanbalat dan Gesyem mengutus orang kepadaku dengan pesan: "Mari, kita mengadakan pertemuan bersama di Kefirim, di lembah Ono !" Tetapi mereka berniat mencelakakan aku. 3Lalu aku mengirim utusan kepada mereka dengan balasan: "Aku tengah melakukan suatu pekerjaan yang besar. Aku tidak bisa datang ! Untuk apa pekerjaan ini terhenti oleh sebab aku meninggalkannya dan pergi kepada kamu!" 4Sampai empat kali mereka mengirim pesan semacam itu kepadaku dan setiap kali aku berikan jawaban yang sama kepada mereka. 5Lalu dengan cara yang sama untuk kelima kalinya Sanbalat mengirim seorang anak buahnya kepadaku yang membawa surat yang terbuka. 6Dalam surat itu tertulis: "Ada desas-desus di antara bangsa-bangsa dan Gasymu membenarkannya, bahwa engkau dan orang-orang Yahudi berniat untuk memberontak, dan oleh sebab itu membangun kembali tembok. Lagipula, menurut kabar itu, engkau mau menjadi raja mereka. 7Bahkan engkau telah menunjuk nabi-nabi yang harus memberitakan tentang dirimu di Yerusalem, demikian: Ada seorang raja di Yehuda ! Sekarang, berita seperti itu akan didengar raja. Oleh sebab itu, mari, kita sama-sama berunding !" 8Tetapi aku mengirim orang kepadanya dengan balasan: "Hal seperti yang kausebut itu tidak pernah ada. Itu isapan jempolmu belaka!" 9Karena mereka semua mau menakut-nakutkan kami, pikirnya: "Mereka akan membiarkan pekerjaan itu, sehingga tak dapat diselesaikan." Tetapi aku justru berusaha sekuat tenaga.
1Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and to the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall, and that no breach was left in it, although at that time I had not installed the doors in the gates, 2Sanballat and Geshem sent a message to me, saying, “Come, let’s meet together at Chephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they were plotting to harm me. 3So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and am unable to come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?” 4Then they sent messages to me four times worded in this way, and I answered them with the same wording. 5Then Sanballat sent his servant to me in the same way a fifth time with an open letter in his hand. 6In it was written: “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; for that reason you are rebuilding the wall. And you are to be their king, according to these reports. 7“You have also appointed prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem concerning you, ‘A king is in Judah!’ And now it will be reported to the king according to these reports. So come now, let’s consult together.” 8Then I sent a message to him saying, “Nothing like these things that you are saying has been done, but you are inventing them in your own mind.” 9For all of them were trying to frighten us, thinking, “They will become discouraged with the work and it will not be done.” But now, God, strengthen my hands.
10Ketika aku pergi ke rumah Semaya bin Delaya bin Mehetabeel, sebab ia berhalangan datang, berkatalah ia: "Biarlah kita bertemu di rumah Allah, di dalam Bait Suci, dan mengunci pintu-pintunya, karena ada orang yang mau datang membunuh engkau, ya, malam ini mereka mau datang membunuh engkau." 11Tetapi kataku: "Orang manakah seperti aku ini yang akan melarikan diri ? Orang manakah seperti aku ini dapat memasuki Bait Suci dan tinggal hidup ? Aku tidak pergi !" 12Karena kuketahui benar, bahwa Allah tidak mengutus dia. Ia mengucapkan nubuat itu terhadap aku, karena disuap Tobia dan Sanbalat. 13Untuk ini ia disuap, supaya aku menjadi takut lalu berbuat demikian, sehingga aku berdosa. Dengan demikian mereka mempunyai kesempatan untuk membusukkan namaku, sehingga dapat mencela aku. 14Ya Allahku, ingatlah bagaimana Tobia dan Sanbalat masing-masing telah bertindak ! Pun tindakan nabiah Noaja dan nabi-nabi yang lain yang mau menakut-nakutkan aku.
10When I entered the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined at home, he said, “Let’s meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let’s close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you, and they are coming to kill you at night.” 11But I said, “Should a man like me flee? And who is there like me who would go into the temple to save his own life? I will not go in.” 12Then I realized that God certainly had not sent him, but he uttered his prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. 13He was hired for this reason, that I would become frightened and act accordingly and sin, so that they might have an evil report in order that they could taunt me. 14Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat in accordance with these works of theirs, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the rest of the prophets, who were trying to frighten me.
The Wall Is Finished
15Maka selesailah tembok itu pada tanggal dua puluh lima bulan Elul, dalam waktu lima puluh dua hari. 16Ketika semua musuh kami mendengar hal itu, takutlah semua bangsa sekeliling kami. Mereka sangat kehilangan muka dan menjadi sadar, bahwa pekerjaan itu dilaksanakan dengan bantuan Allah kami. 17Pada masa itu pula para pemuka Yehuda mengirim banyak surat kepada Tobia, dan sebaliknya mereka menerima surat-surat dari padanya, 18karena banyak orang di Yehuda mempunyai ikatan sumpah dengan dia, sebab ia adalah menantu Sekhanya bin Arah, sedang Yohanan, anaknya, mengambil anak Mesulam bin Berekhya sebagai isteri. 19Juga mereka sebut-sebut segala kebaikan Tobia di mukaku dan segala perkataanku terus dibeberkan kepadanya. Pula Tobia mengirim surat-surat untuk menakut-nakutkan aku.
15So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul, in fifty-two days. 16When all our enemies heard about it, and all the nations surrounding us saw it, they lost their confidence; for they realized that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God. 17Also in those days many letters went from the nobles of Judah to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them. 18For many in Judah were bound by oath to him because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah. 19Moreover, they were speaking about his good deeds in my presence, and were reporting my words to him. Then Tobiah sent letters to frighten me.
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