Neemia 9

BIBBIA MARTINI	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Ma il dì ventiquattro di quel mese i figliuoli d'Israele si raunarono, osservando il digiuno, vestiti di sacco, e coperti di terra.	1 Then, on the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the sons of Israel came together in fasting and in sackcloth, and with soil upon them.
2 E la stirpe de figliuoli d'Israele fu separata da tutti i figliuoli stranieri: e stando dinanzi al Signore confessavano i loro peccati, e le iniquità de' padri loro.	2 And the offspring of the sons of Israel were separated from all the sons of foreigners. And they stood up, and they confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
3 E si alzarono in piedi: e fu fatta la lettura del libro della legge del Signore Dio loro quattro volte il giorno, e quattro volte lodavano, e adoravano il Signore Dio loro.	3 And they arose to stand. And they read in the volume of the law of the Lord their God, four times in the day, and four times they confessed. And they adored the Lord their God.
4 E salirono al posto de' Leviti, Josuè, e Bani, e Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebia, Bani, e Chanani, e ad alta voce gridarono al Signore Dio loro.	4 Then, upon the step of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, and Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani rose up. And they cried out in a great voice to the Lord their God.
5 E questi Leviti, Josuè, e Cedmihel, Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia, Odaia, Sebnia, Phathathia, dissero: Alzatevi; benedite il Signore Dio vostro (che è) ab eterno, e in eterno: e sia benedetto l'eccelso nome tuo con ogni benedizione, e laude.	5 And the Levites, Jeshua and Kadmiel, Bunni, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said: “Rise up. Bless the Lord your God, from eternity even to eternity! And blessed be the exalted name of your glory, with all blessing and praise.
6 Tu stesso, o Signore, tu solo facesti il cielo, e il cielo de' cieli, e tutta la loro milizia: la terra, e tutto quello, che in essa contiensi: i mari, e tutto quel ch'ei comprendono: e a tutte queste cose dai vita, e ti adora l'esercito celestiale.	6 You yourself alone, O Lord, made heaven, and the heaven of the heavens, and all their host, the earth and all things that are in it, the seas and all things that are in them. And you gave life to all these things. And the host of heaven adores you.
7 Fosti tu, o Signore Dio, che eleggesti Abramo, e lo traesti dal fuoco de' Caldei, e gli desti il nome di Abrahamo.	7 You yourself, O Lord God, are the One who chose Abram. And you led him away from the fire of the Chaldeans, and you gave him the name Abraham.
8 E conoscesti, come il suo cuore era fedele dinanzi a te: e facesti alleanza con lui, per dare a lui, e alla sua stirpe la terra de' Chananei, degli Hethei, e Amorrhei, e Pherezei, e Jebusei, e Geragezei: e adempisti la tua parola, perchè tu se'giusto.	8 And you found his heart to be faithful before you. And you formed a covenant with him, so that you might give to him the land of the Canaanite, of the Hittite, and of the Amorite, and of the Perizzite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Girgashite, so that you might give it to his offspring. And you have fulfilled your words, for you are just.
9 E mirasti l'afflizione de' padri nostri in Egitto: e udisti le loro grida presso al mar rosso.	9 And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt. And you heard their outcry beside the Red Sea.
10 E facesti segni, e prodigj sopra Pharaone, e sopra tutti i suoi servi, e sopra tutto il popolo di quel paese: perocché tu sapevi, com' eglino ci avean trattati superbamente: e ti facesti il nome, quale tu hai anche in oggi.	10 And you gave signs and portents to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to the people of his land. For you knew that they acted arrogantly against them. And you made a name for yourself, just as it is in this day.
11 E apristi il mare dinanzi ad essi, e passaron per mezzo al mare asciutto: e i loro persecutori gettasti nell'abisso, come pietra che cade in acqua profonda.	11 And you divided the sea before them, and they crossed through the midst of the sea on dry land. But their pursuers you cast into the depths, like a stone into great waters.
12 E fosti loro condottiere in una colonna di nube il giorno, e in una colonna di fuoco la notte, affinchè vedessero la strada, per cui camminare.	12 And in the pillar of cloud, you were their leader by day, and in the pillar of fire, by night, so that they might see the way along which they might advance.
13 Scendesti ancora sul monte del Sinai, e con essi parlasti dal cielo, e desti loro de' precetti di giustizia, e una legge di verità, e cerimonie, e comandamenti buoni.	13 You also descended to mount Sinai, and you spoke with them from heaven. And you gave them upright judgments, and the law of truth, and ceremonies, and good precepts.
14 E facesti loro conoscere il santo tuo sabato, e i tuoi insegnamenti, e le tue cerimonie, e la legge intimasti loro per mezzo di Mosè tuo servo.	14 You revealed to them your sanctified Sabbath, and you instructed them in commandments, and ceremonies, and the law, by the hand of Moses, your servant.
15 E desti anche ad essi pane dal cielo, quand' erano affamati, e quando ebber sete, facesti scaturire acqua da un masso; e dicesti loro, che entrassero al possesso della terra, cui tu, alzata la mano, avevi promesso di dare ad essi.	15 You also gave them bread from heaven in their hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their thirst. And you said to them that they should enter and possess the land, over which you lifted up your hand so that you might give it to them.
16 Ma eglino, e i padri nostri operarono con superbia, e induraron le loro cervici, e non ascoltarono i tuoi comandamenti.	16 Yet truly, they and our fathers acted arrogantly, and they hardened their necks, and they did not listen to your commandments.
17 E non vollero intendere, e si scordarono delle mirabili cose fatte da te a prò loro. E induraron le loro cervici, e si fìssero in testa di tornare alla loro schiavitù, quasi per contender (con te.) Ma tu Dio buono, clemente, e misericordioso, paziente, e di molta benignità, non gli abbandonasti,	17 And they were not willing to hear, and they did not remember, your miracles which you had accomplished for them. And they hardened their necks, and they offered their head, so that they would return to their servitude, as if in contention. But you, a forgiving God, lenient and merciful, longsuffering and full of compassion, did not abandon them.
18 Neppur quando si fecero quel vitello di getto, e dissero: Questo (o Israele) è il tuo Dio, che ti ha tratto dall'Egitto: e commisero bestemmie grandi.	18 Indeed, even when they had made for themselves a molten calf, and they had said, ‘This is your God, who led you away from Egypt!’ and had committed great blasphemies,
19 Ma tu, perchè grandi sono le tue misericordie, non li lasciasti nel deserto: la colonna della nube, che mostrava loro la strada, non fu sottratta ad essi di giorno, né la colonna di fuoco, da cui eran guidati la notte nel loro viaggio.	19 even so, in the multitude of your mercies, you did not send them away in the desert. The pillar of cloud did not withdraw from them by day, so that it might lead them on the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, so that it might show them the way along which they might advance.
20 E desti loro per maestro il tuo spirito buono, e non togliesti loro di bocca la tua manna, e assetati ebbero acqua da te.	20 And you gave them your good Spirit, so that he might teach them, and you did not withhold your manna from their mouth, and you gave them water in their thirst.
21 Per quarant'anni ìi pascesti nel deserto, e nulla ad essi mancò: le loro vesti non invecchiarono, e i loro piedi non si logorarono.	21 For forty years, you fed them in the desert, and nothing was lacking to them; their garments did not grow old, and their feet were not worn down.
22 E desti in dominio loro i regni, e i popoli, e desti loro a sorte le loro porzioni: ed ei divennero padroni della terra di Sehon, e della terra del re Hesebon, e della terra di Og re di Basan.	22 And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, and you distributed to them by lot. And they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, the king of Bashan.
23 E moltiplicasti i loro figliuoli, come le stelle del cielo, e li collocasti nel paese, in cui avevi detto a' padri loro di fargli entrare per averne il dominio.	23 And you multiplied their sons like the stars of heaven. And you led them into the land, about which you had said to their fathers that they would enter and possess it.
24 E i figliuoli vennero, e occuparono questa terra, e umiliasti dinanzi aloro i Chananei abitatori della medesima terra, e li desti in loro potere, coi loro re, e coi popoli del paese, affinchè li trattassero, come loro piaceva.	24 And the sons arrived and possessed the land. And you humbled the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, before them. And you delivered them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, so that they might do with them just as it was pleasing to them.
25 Ed ei si fecero padroni delle città forti, e di un grasso paese, e occuparon le case piene a ogni bene: le cisterne fatte da altri, le vigne, e gli uliveti, e le piante fruttifere in gran numero, e mangiarono, e si saziarono, e ingrassarono, e nuotarono nelle delizie, mercè della tua bontà grande.	25 And so they seized fortified cities and fat soil. And they possessed houses filled with all kinds of goods, cisterns made by others, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. And they ate and were satisfied. And they were fattened, and they abounded with delights from your great goodness.
26 Ma eglino ti provocarono ad ira,e si ritiraron da te, e si gettarono la tua legge dietro alle spalle: e uccissero i tuoi profeti, i quali gli scongiuravano, che tornassero a te: e diedero in gran di bestemmie.	26 But they provoked you to wrath, and they withdrew from you, and they cast your law behind their backs. And they killed your prophets, who contended with them so that they might return to you. And they committed great blasphemies.
27 E tu li desti in potere de' loro nemici, i quali gli oppressero. E nel tempo della loro tribolazione alzaron le grida a te, e tu udisti dal cielo, e nella molta tua misericordia concedesti loro dei salvatori, che li liberassero dalle mani de' loro nemici.	27 And so you gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they afflicted them. And in the time of their tribulation, they cried out to you, and from heaven you heard them. And in accord with your great compassion, you gave to them saviors, who might save them from the hand of their enemies.
28 E quand' ebber riposo, tornarono a fare il male dinanzi a te: e tu gli abbandonasti in potere de' loro nemici, i quali li dominarono. E si rivolsero, e alzaron le grida verso di te: e tu dal cielo gli esaudisti, e mercè delle tue misericordie, molte volte li liberasti;	28 But after they had rested, they turned back, so that they did evil in your sight. And you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, and they possessed them. And they converted, and they cried out to you. And from heaven you heeded them, and you freed them many times, by your mercies.
29 E gli esortasti a ritornare alla tua legge. Ma eglino operaron superbamente, e non ascoltarono i tuoi comandamenti, nell'adempimento de' quali l'uomo trova la vita: ed ei voltaron le spalle, e indurarono le loro cervici, e non diedero retta.	29 And you contended with them, so that they might return to your law. Yet truly, they acted in arrogance, and they did not listen to your commandments, and they sinned against your judgments, which, if a man does them, he shall live by them. And they withdrew from offering their shoulder, and they hardened their neck; neither would they listen.
30 E pazientasti con essi per molti anni, e gli ammonisti per mezzo del tuo spirito per bocca de tuoi profeti: ed essi non ascoltarono, e tu li desti in balia dei popoli delle genti.	30 And you continued to forbear them for many years. And you contended with them by your Spirit, through the hand of your prophets. And they did not listen, and so you delivered them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
31 Ma per le tue misericordie, che sono moltissime, tu non li volesti con sunti, ne gli abbandonasti: perchè tu se' un Dio di benignità, e di clemenza.	31 Yet in your very many mercies, you did not cause them to be consumed, nor did you abandon them. For you are a compassionate and lenient God.
32 Adesso adunque, Dio nostro grande, forte, e terribile, che mantieni il patto, e la misericordia, non voler porre in non cale tutti que' mali, che sono caduti addosso a noi, ai nostri re, ai nostri principi, ai nostri sacerdoti, ai nostri profeti, e ai padri nostri, e a tutto il tuo popolo dal tempo del re di Assur fin a questo di.	32 Now therefore, our great God, strong and terrible, who keeps covenant and mercy, may you not avert your face from all the hardship that has found us, we and our kings, and our leaders, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people, from the days of king Assur, even to this day.
33 Or giusto se' tu in tutti quei mali, che sono piovuti sopra di noi: perocché tu hai fatta giustizia, ma noi abbiamo operato empiamente.	33 For you are just, concerning all things that have overwhelmed us. For you have done truth, but we have acted impiously.
34 I nostri re, i nostri principi, i nostri sacerdoti, e i padri nostri non adempirono la tua legge, e non ubbidirono a' tuoi comandamenti, e agli ordini, che tu avevi loro intimati.	34 Our kings, our leaders, our priests, and our fathers have not done your law, and they have not been attentive to your commandments and your testimonies, to which you have testified among them.
35 Ed eglino mentre regnavano, e godevano dei molti beni dati loro da te, e di questa terra grassa, e spaziosa, di cui tu avevi conceduta loro la padronanza, non servirono a te, e non si convertirono dalle pessime loro inclinazioni.	35 And they have not served you, in their kingdoms and with your many good things, which you gave to them, and in the very wide and fat land, which you delivered into their sight, nor did they return from their most wicked pursuits.
36 Ecco che noi medesimi oggi dì siamo servi; e nella terra data da te a' padri nostri, perchè mangiassero il suo pane, e i suoi frutti, in essa noi stessi siamo servi.	36 Behold, we ourselves this day are servants. And the land, which you gave to our fathers so that they might eat its bread and have its good things, we ourselves are servants within it.
37 E le sue biade moltiplicano in prò dei regi, ai quali tu ci hai sottoposti pe' nostri peccati; ei sono padroni de' nostri corpi, e de' nostri giumenti a lor talento; e noi siamo in grande afflizione.	37 And its fruits are multiplied for the kings, whom you have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies, and over our cattle, according to their will. And we are in great tribulation.
38 A riflesso di tutte queste cose pertanto noi stessi facciamo per iscritto il patto, e lo sottoscrivono i nostri capi, i nostri Leviti, e i nostri sacerdoti.	38 Therefore, concerning all of these things, we ourselves are forming and writing a covenant, and our leaders, our Levites, and our priests are signing it.”