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Yeeb ncuab tuav tswvyim ua phem
1Thaus muaj tuabneeg moog has rua Xaanpala hab Thaunpia hab Kesee, kws yog tuabneeg Alam, hab lwm tug kws ua yeeb ncuab rua peb paub tas kuv tau ua lub ntsaa loog hab khu tej qhov kws pob tav lawm (lub swjhawm ntawd kuv tsw tau nruab txhwb qhov rooj rua ntawm rooj loog),
2mas Xaanpala hab Kesee khaiv tuabneeg tuaj has rua kuv tas, “Thov koj tuaj ntswb peb rua huv ib lub zog ntawm lub taj Aunau.” Tub yog puab tuav huv yuav ua phem rua kuv ntaag.
3Kuv txhad khaiv tuabneeg moog has rua puab tas, “Kuv saamswm ua num tseem ceeb kawg, tuaj tsw tau. Ua caag peb yuav tso num tseg rua thaus kuv tawm moog cuag mej?”
4Mas puab tseed khaiv tuabneeg tuaj has rua kuv le nuav plaub zag, kuv kuj teb puab ib yaam nkaus hab.
5Zag tswb Xaanpala khaiv nwg ib tug tub teg tub taw tuaj cuag kuv ib yaam le qub hab coj ib tsaab ntawv qheb quas lug tuaj.
6Huv tsaab ntawv sau has tas, “Muaj xuv huv ib tsoom tuabneeg hab Kesee kuj has tas, koj hab cov Yutai npaaj sab yuav faav xeeb. Yog le nuav koj txhad ua lub ntsaa loog, hab koj xaav ua puab tug vaajntxwv lawv le tej xuv nuav.
7Hab koj tub tsaa cov xwbfwb cev Vaajtswv lug tshaaj tawm txug koj rua huv Yeluxalee tas, ‘Muaj ib tug vaajntxwv huv Yuta lawm.’ Nwgnuav yuav has tej lug nuav moog rua vaajntxwv paub. Vem le nuav thov koj tuaj es ib sablaaj ua ke.”
8Mas kuv txhad tso tuabneeg moog has rua nwg tas, “Yaam kws koj has kod kuv yeej tsw tau ua le, koj xaav tswvyim lawv le koj lub sab xwb.”
9Tsua qhov puab suavdawg xaav hem kuas peb ntshai, hab xaav tas peb txhais teg yuav tso daag num tseg hab tej num yuav tsw tav. Au Vaajtswv, nwgnuav thov koj txhawb kuv txhais teg tug zug.
10Kuv txawm moog rua huv Ntelaya tug tub Semaya lub tsev, nwg yog Mehethanpee tug xeeb ntxwv, nwg pheej nyob huv tsev xwb, mas Semaya has tas, “Ca ib moog sws ntswb rua huv Vaajtswv lub tuam tsev chaav kws pe Vaajtswv, hab ca ib muab qhov rooj tuam tsev kaw, tsua qhov puab yuav tuaj tua koj, thaus tsaus ntuj puab yuav tuaj tua koj pov tseg.”
11Tassws kuv has tas, “Tuabneeg zoo le kuv yuav txaus tswv lov? Hab tuabneeg zoo le kuv yuav nkaag moog rua huv lub tuam tsev txhad cawm tau sav lov? Kuv tsw moog.”
12Mas kuv nkaag sab hab pum tas, tsw yog Vaajtswv khaiv nwg tuaj tassws yog nwg cev lug tawm tsaam kuv vem Thaunpia hab Xaanpala tau ndav nwg lawm.
13Ob tug ndav nwg tuaj xaav tas yuav ua rua kuv ntshai hab kuv yuav ua le hov txhad ua txhum muaj txem, mas puab txhad le coj tau kuv lub npe moog xyaav sub puab txhad thuaj luag tau kuv.
14Au kuv tug Vaajtswv, thov koj ncu txug Thaunpia hab Xaanpala lawv le tej kws ob tug ua nuav, hab ncu txug Nau‑antiya kws yog tug puj xwbfwb cev Vaajtswv lug hab lwm tug kws cev Vaajtswv lug kws xaav ua kuas kuv ntshai.
15Lub ntsaa loog txhad tav rua nub tim neeg nkaum tswb lub hli Elu,⚓ huvsw peb ua tswb caug ob nub.
16Thaus peb cov yeeb ncuab suavdawg tau nov, ib tsoom tebchaws kws nyob ib ncig peb kuj ntshai hab poob ntsej muag taag, tsua qhov puab pum tas tej num nuav ua tau tav vem yog muaj peb tug Vaajtswv paab peb.
17Dua le ntawd lub swjhawm ntawd cov kws ua hlub huv Yuta kuj xaa ntau tsaab ntawv moog rua Thaunpia, hab Thaunpia tej ntawv kuj tuaj txug puab.
18Tsua qhov cov Yuta muaj ntau leej nrug Thaunpia cog lug sws raug zoo vem nwg yog Alag tug tub Sekhaniya le vauv, hab nwg tug tub Yehauhanaa tau yuav Npelekhiya tug tub Mesulaa le ntxhais ua quaspuj.
19Puab has txug tej qhov zoo kws Thaunpia ua rua kuv noog hab coj kuv tej lug moog qha rua nwg. Mas Thaunpia xaa ntawv tuaj hem ua kuas kuv ntshai.
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Conspiracy Against Nehemiah
1Now it happened ⚓when Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall, and that there were no breaks left in it ⚓(though at that time I had not hung the doors in the gates),
2that Sanballat and Geshem ⚓sent to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together among the villages in the plain of ⚓Ono.” But they ⚓thought to do me harm.
3So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?”
4But they sent me this message four times, and I answered them in the same manner.
5Then Sanballat sent his servant to me as before, the fifth time, with an open letter in his hand.
6In it was written:
It is reported among the nations, and Geshem says, that you and the Jews plan to rebel; therefore, according to these rumors, you are rebuilding the wall, ⚓that you may be their king.
7And you have also appointed prophets to proclaim concerning you at Jerusalem, saying, “There is a king in Judah!” Now these matters will be reported to the king. So come, therefore, and let us consult together.
8Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say are being done, but you invent them in your own heart.”
9For they all were trying to make us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will not be done.”
Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
10Afterward I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was a secret informer; and he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you; indeed, at night they will come to kill you.”
11And I said, “Should such a man as I flee? And who is there such as I who would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in!”
12Then I perceived that God had not sent him at all, but that ⚓he pronounced this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13For this reason he was hired, that I should be afraid and act that way and sin, so that they might have cause for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
14⚓My God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat, according to these their works, and the ⚓prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who would have made me afraid.
The Wall Completed
15So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.
16And it happened, ⚓when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations around us saw these things, that they were very disheartened in their own eyes; for ⚓they perceived that this work was done by our God.
17Also in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came to them.
18For many in Judah were pledged to him, because he was the ⚓son-in-law of Shechaniah the son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of ⚓Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
19Also they reported his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to frighten me.