Neemia 6

NOVA VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Factum est autem cum audisset Sanaballat et Thobias et Gosem Arabs etceteri inimici nostri, quod aedificassem ego murum, et non esset in ipso residuainterruptio — usque ad tempus autem illud valvas non posueram in portis —	1 Now it happened that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem, an Arab, and our other enemies, had heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no interruption remaining in it, (even though, at that time, I had not set up the double doors at the gates,)
2 miserunt Sanaballat et Gosem ad me dicentes: “ Veni, et conveniamus inCephirim in campo Ono ”. Ipsi autem cogitabant, ut facerent mihi malum.	2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying: “Come, and let us strike a pact together in the villages, on the plain of Ono.” But they were thinking that they would do me harm.
3 Misiergo ad eos nuntios dicens: “ Opus grande ego facio et non possum descendere;cur cessare oportet opus, si desistero et descendero ad vos? ”.	3 Therefore, I sent messengers to them, saying: “I am doing a great work, and I cannot descend, lest perhaps it may be neglected when I go out and descend to you.”
4 Miseruntautem ad me secundum verbum hoc per quattuor vices, et respondi eis iuxtasermonem priorem.	4 Then they sent to me, with this same word, four times. And I responded to them with the same word as before.
5 Et misit ad me Sanaballat iuxta verbum prius quinta vice puerum suum, etepistulam non obsignatam habebat in manu sua, in qua erat scriptum:	5 And Sanballat sent his servant to me a fifth time, with the former word, and he had a letter in his hand written in this manner:
6 “ Ingentibus auditum est, et Gosem dixit quod tu et Iudaei cogitetis rebellare, etpropterea aedifices murum et levare te velis super eos regem; iuxta hanc vocem	6 “It has been heard among the Gentiles, and Geshem has said it, that you and the Jews are planning to rebel, and because of this, you are building the wall and thinking to raise yourself as a king over them. For this reason,
7 et prophetas posueris, qui praedicent de te in Ierusalem dicentes: “Rex inIudaea est!”. Nunc autem auditurus est rex verba haec; idcirco nunc veni, utineamus consilium pariter ”.	7 you also have stationed prophets, who preach about you in Jerusalem, saying: ‘There is a king in Judea!’ But the king will hear about these words. Therefore, come now, so that we may go to counsel together.”
8 Et misi ad eum dicens: “ Non est factumsecundum verba haec, quae tu loqueris; de corde enim tuo tu componis haec ”.	8 And I sent to them, saying: “There has been nothing done according to these words, which you have spoken. For you are inventing these things from your own heart.”
9 Omnes enim hi terrebant nos cogitantes: “ Fatigabuntur manus eorum ab opere,et non complebitur ”. Quam ob causam magis confortavi manus meas.	9 For all these men wished to frighten us, thinking that our hands would cease from the work, and that we would cease. For this reason, I strengthened my hands all the more.
10 Et ingressus sum domum Semeiae filii Dalaiae filii Meetabel, ubi eratdetentus. Qui ait: “ Tractemus nobiscum in domo Dei, in medio templi, etclaudamus portas aedis, quia venturi sunt, ut interficiant te; utique nocteventuri sunt ad occidendum te”.	10 And I entered into the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, in secret. And he said: “Let us consult together in the house of God, in the midst of the temple. And let us close the doors of the temple. For they will come to kill you, and they will arrive in the night to put you to death.”
11 Et dixi: “ Num quisquam similis mei fugit? Et quis ut ego ingredieturtemplum et vivet? Non ingrediar ”.	11 And I said: “How could anyone like me flee? And who like me should enter the temple, so that he may live? I will not enter.”
12 Et intellexi quod Deus non misisset eum,sed quasi vaticinans locutus esset ad me, quia Thobias et Sanaballat conduxeranteum.	12 And I understood that God had not sent him, but he had spoken to me as if he were prophesying, and that Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13 Acceperat enim pretium, ut territus sic agerem et peccarem, et haberentmalum, quod exprobrarent mihi.	13 For he had accepted money, so that I would be afraid, and would sin, and so that they would have some evil with which to rebuke me.
14 Memento, Deus meus, Thobiae et Sanaballatiuxta opera eorum talia, sed et Noadiae prophetae et ceterorum prophetarum, quiterrebant me!	14 Remember me, O Lord, because of Tobiah and Sanballat, because of their works of this kind. Then, too, Noadiah, a prophetess, and the rest of the prophets, would have made me afraid.
15 Completus est autem murus vicesimo quinto die mensis Elul, quinquagintaduobus diebus.	15 Now the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Elul, in fifty-two days.
16 Factum est ergo, cum audissent omnes inimici nostri, etvidissent universae gentes, quae erant in circuitu nostro, ut conciderent intrasemetipsos et scirent quod a Deo factum esset opus hoc.	16 Then it happened that, when all our enemies had heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they were downcast within themselves. For they knew that this work had been accomplished by God.
17 Sed et in diebus illis, multae optimatum Iudaeorum epistulae mittebantur adThobiam, et a Thobia veniebant ad eos.	17 But also, in those days, many letters were being sent by the nobles of the Jews to Tobiah, and were arriving from Tobiah to them.
18 Multi enim in Iudaea coniurationemfecerunt cum eo, quia gener erat Secheniae filii Area, et Iohanan filius eiusacceperat filiam Mosollam filii Barachiae.	18 For there were many in Judea who had sworn an oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah, the son of Arah, and because Jehohanan, his son, had married the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah.
19 Sed et laudabant eum coram me etverba mea nuntiabant ei; et Thobias mittebat epistulas, ut terreret me.	19 Moreover, they praised him before me, and they reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters, so that he might make me afraid.