Nehemiah · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Nehemiah 5 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
1 ENTONCES fué grande el clamor del pueblo y de sus mujeres contra los Judíos sus hermanos.
2 And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many: Yet us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and live.
2 Y había quien decía: Nosotros, nuestros hijos y nuestras hijas, somos muchos: hemos por tanto tomado grano para comer y vivir.
3 And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.
3 Y había quienes decían: Hemos empeñado nuestras tierras, y nuestras viñas, y nuestras casas, para comprar grano en el hambre.
4 And others said: Let us borrow money for the king’s tribute, and let us give up our fields and vineyards:
4 Y había quienes decían: Hemos tomado prestado dinero para el tributo del rey, sobre nuestras tierras y viñas.
5 And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.
5 Ahora bien, nuestra carne es como la carne de nuestros hermanos, nuestros hijos como sus hijos: y he aquí que nosotros sujetamos nuestros hijos y nuestras hijas á servidumbre, y hay algunas de nuestras hijas sujetas: mas no hay facultad en nuestras manos para rescatarlas, porque nuestras tierras y nuestras viñas son de otros.
6 And I was exceedingly angry when I heard their cry according to these words.
6 Y enojéme en gran manera cuando oí su clamor y estas palabras.
7 And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and magistrates, and said to them: Do you every one exact usury of your brethren? And I gathered together a great assembly against them,
7 Medité[lo] entonces para conmigo, y reprendí á los principales y á los magistrados, y díjeles: ¿Tomáis cada uno usura de vuestros hermanos? Y convoqué contra ellos una grande junta.
8 And I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to our ability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and will you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held their peace, and found not what to answer.
8 Y díjeles: Nosotros rescatamos á nuestros hermanos Judíos que habían sido vendidos á las gentes, conforme á la facultad que [había] en nosotros: ¿y vosotros aun vendéis á vuestros hermanos, y serán vendidos á nosotros? Y callaron, que no tuvieron qué responder.
9 And I said to them: The thing you do is not good: why walk you not in the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the Gentiles our enemies?
9 Y dije: No es bien lo que hacéis, ¿no andaréis en temor de nuestro Dios, por [no ser] el oprobio de las gentes enemigas nuestras?
10 Both I and my brethren, and my servants, have lent money and corn to many: let us all agree not to call for it again; let us forgive the debt that is owing to us.
10 También yo, y mis hermanos, y mis criados, les hemos prestado dinero y grano: relevémosles ahora de este gravamen.
11 Restore ye to them this day their fields, and their vineyards, and their oliveyards, and their houses: and the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which you mere wont to exact of them, give it rather for them.
11 Ruégoos que les devolváis hoy sus tierras, sus viñas, sus olivares, y sus casas, y la centésima parte del dinero y grano, del vino y del aceite que demandáis de ellos.
12 And they said: We will restore, and we will require nothing of them: and we will do as thou sayest. And I called the priests and took an oath of them, to do according to what I had said.
12 Y dijeron: Devolveremos, y nada les demandaremos; haremos así como tú dices. Entonces convoqué los sacerdotes, y juramentélos que harían conforme á esto.
13 Moreover I shook my lap, and said: So may God shake every man that shall not accomplish this word, out of his house, and out of his labours, thus may he be shaken out, and become empty. And all the multitude said: Amen. And they praised God. And the people did according to what was said.
13 Además sacudí mi vestido, y dije: Así sacuda Dios de su casa y de su trabajo á todo hombre que no cumpliere esto, y así sea sacudido y vacío. Y respondió toda la congregación: ¡Amén! Y alabaron á Jehová. Y el pueblo hizo conforme á esto.
14 And from the day, in which the king commanded me to be governor in the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my brethren did not eat the yearly allowance that was due to the governors.
14 También desde el día que me mandó [el rey] que fuese gobernador de ellos en la tierra de Judá, desde el año veinte del rey Artajerjes hasta el año treinta y dos, doce años, ni yo ni mis hermanos comimos el pan del gobernador.
15 But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sides: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.
15 Mas los primeros gobernadores que fueron antes de mí, cargaron al pueblo, y tomaron de ellos por el pan y por el vino sobre cuarenta siclos de plata: á más de esto, sus criados se enseñoreaban sobre el pueblo; pero yo no hice así, á causa del temor de Dios.
16 Moreover I built in the work of the wall, and I bought no land, and all my servants were gathered together to the work.
16 También en la obra de este muro instauré [mi parte], y no compramos heredad: y todos mis criados juntos estaban allí á la obra.
17 The Jews also and the magistrates to the number of one hundred and fifty men, were at my table, besides them that came to us from among the nations that were round about us.
17 Además ciento y cincuenta hombres de los Judíos y magistrados, y los que venían á nosotros de las gentes que están en nuestros contornos, estaban á mi mesa.
18 And there was prepared for me day by day one ox, and six choice rams, besides fowls, and once in ten days I gave store of divers wines, and many other things: yet I did not require my yearly allowance as governor: for the people were very much impoverished.
18 Y lo que se aderezaba para cada día era un buey, seis ovejas escogidas, y aves también se aparejaban para mí, y cada diez días vino en toda abundancia: y con todo esto nunca requerí el pan del gobernador, porque la servidumbre de este pueblo era grave.
19 Remember me, O my God, for good according to all that I have done for this people.
19 Acuérdate de mí para bien, Dios mío, y de todo lo que hice á este pueblo.
Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 5:7; Deuteronomy 15:7–11; Leviticus 25:35–37; Job 34:28; Job 31:38–39
- 2 Psalm 128:2–4; Malachi 2:2; Genesis 41:57; Psalm 127:3–5; Genesis 43:8
- 3 Leviticus 25:35–39; Malachi 3:8–11; Deuteronomy 15:7; Genesis 47:15–25
- 4 Ezra 4:13; Ezra 4:20; 1 Kings 9:21; Ezra 7:24; Nehemiah 9:37
- 5 2 Kings 4:1; Leviticus 25:39–43; Genesis 37:27; Isaiah 58:7; Exodus 21:1–11
- 6 Nehemiah 13:25; Exodus 11:8; Ephesians 4:26; Numbers 16:15; Nehemiah 13:8
- 7 Leviticus 25:36; Deuteronomy 23:19–20; Exodus 22:25; Ezekiel 22:12; 2 Chronicles 19:6–7
- 8 Leviticus 25:47–49; Deuteronomy 24:7; Matthew 25:15; 2 Corinthians 8:12; 1 Corinthians 8:11
- 9 Leviticus 25:36; Proverbs 18:5; Romans 2:24; 1 Peter 2:12; 2 Samuel 12:14
- 10 2 Corinthians 6:1; Exodus 22:25–27; Ezekiel 18:13; 1 Corinthians 9:12–18; Micah 2:1
- 11 Isaiah 58:6; Leviticus 6:4–5; Luke 3:8; 1 Samuel 12:3; Nehemiah 5:3–4
- 12 Ezra 10:5; Jeremiah 34:8–10; Nehemiah 10:29; Ezra 10:12; 2 Chronicles 6:22–23
- 13 Acts 18:6; 1 Chronicles 16:36; Matthew 10:14; Zechariah 5:3–4; Deuteronomy 27:14–26
- 14 Nehemiah 13:6; 1 Corinthians 9:18; 2 Thessalonians 3:8–9; 1 Corinthians 9:4–15; Ezra 4:13–14
- 15 Nehemiah 5:9; Isaiah 50:10; Proverbs 16:6; 2 Corinthians 11:9; Job 31:23
- 16 Galatians 6:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:5–6; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Acts 20:33–35; Philippians 2:20–21
- 17 1 Kings 18:19; 1 Peter 4:9–10; 2 Samuel 9:7; Romans 12:13; Isaiah 32:8
- 18 1 Kings 4:22–23; Psalm 37:21; Psalm 37:26; Nehemiah 5:14–15
- 19 Nehemiah 13:31; Psalm 106:4; Nehemiah 13:14; Nehemiah 13:22; Jeremiah 29:11
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