Nehemiah · Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Nehemiah 2 Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (3)
- eBible.org's edition in the ekavian pronunciation (e.g. свет, грех); Karadžić and Daničić wrote in ijekavian (свијет, гријех).
- No deuterocanonical books.
- Chapter divisions follow the Hebrew Bible in Job 39–41, Ezekiel 20–21, Hosea 11–12 and Jonah 1–2 (verse numbers there differ from English Bibles).
1 А месеца Нисана године двадесете Артаксеркса цара беше вино пред њим, и ја узевши вино дадох га цару. А пре не бејах невесео пред њим.
1 In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.
2 И рече ми цар: Што си лица невеселог, кад ниси болестан? Није друго него туга у срцу. А ја се уплаших врло.
2 The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.
3 И рекох цару: Да је жив цар до века! Како не бих био лица невеселог, кад је град где су гробови мојих отаца опустео и врата му огњем спаљена?
3 I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”
4 А цар ми рече: Шта хоћеш? Тада се помолих Богу небеском,
4 Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
5 и рекох цару: Ако је угодно цару и ако ти је мио слуга твој, пошљи ме у Јудеју у град где су гробови отаца мојих да га саградим.
5 I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”
6 А цар ми рече, а жена његова сеђаше до њега: Колико ти времена треба на пут, и кад ћеш се вратити? И би угодно цару, и пусти ме кад му казах време.
6 The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), “How long will your journey be? When will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for him.
7 Потом рекох цару: Ако је угодно цару, да ми се да књига на кнезове преко реке да ме прате докле не дођем у Јудеју,
7 Moreover I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;
8 и књига на Асафа, чувара шуме цареве да ми да дрва за брвна на врата од двора уз дом Божји и за зид градски и за кућу у коју ћу ући. И даде ми цар, јер добра рука Бога мог беше нада мном.
8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.
9 И тако дођох са кнезовима преко реке, и дадох им књиге цареве. А цар посла са мном војводе и коњике.
9 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
10 А кад то чу Санавалат Ороњанин и Товија, слуга Амонац, би им врло мрско што дође човек да се постара за добро синовима Израиљевим.
10 When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
11 Потом дођох у Јерусалим, и бих онде три дана.
11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
12 Па устах ноћу с неколико људи, а ником не казах шта ми је Бог мој дао у срце да учиним у Јерусалиму; и не имах кљусета са собом осим оног на коме јахах.
12 I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me except the animal that I rode on.
13 И изиђох ноћу на врата од долине, на извор змајевски, и на врата гнојна, и разгледах зидове јерусалимске како беху разваљени и како му врата беху огњем попаљена.
13 I went out by night by the valley gate toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate; and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.
14 Отуда прођох на изворска врата и на царско језеро, а онде не беше места да кљусе пода мном пређе.
14 Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.
15 Зато јахах уз поток по ноћи и разгледах зид, па се вратих на врата од долине, и тако дођох натраг.
15 Then I went up in the night by the brook and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
16 Али поглавари не знаху куда сам ишао ни шта сам радио, јер дотада не бејах ништа рекао ни Јудејцима ни свештеницима ни кнезовима ни поглаварима ни другима који управљаху послом.
16 The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.
17 Зато им рекох: Видите у каквом смо злу, Јерусалим пуст и врата му попаљена огњем; дајте да зидамо зидове јерусалимске, да више не будемо руг.
17 Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”
18 И казах им како је добра рука Бога мог нада мном и речи цареве које ми је рекао. Тада рекоше: Устанимо и зидајмо. И укрепише им се руке на добро.
18 I told them about the hand of my God which was good on me, and also about the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
19 А кад то чу Санавалат Ороњанин и Товија, слуга Амонац и Гисем Арапин, подсмеваше нам се и ругаше нам се говорећи: Шта то радите? Да се нећете одметнути цару?
19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”
20 А ја им одговорих и рекох: Бог небески даће нам срећу, а ми, слуге Његове устасмо и зидамо; али ви немате дела ни права ни спомена у Јерусалиму.
20 Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial in Jerusalem.”
People & places in this chapter
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People
Asaph
Persian official to whom Artaxerxes’s letter ordered timber given to Nehemiah for the gates and wall.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 2:8
Geshem
Geshem the Arab joined Sanballat and Tobiah in mocking the builders and sent messages to lure Nehemiah to Ono.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 6:1; Nehemiah 6:2
Sanballat
Sanballat the Horonite, who mocked, plotted against, and tried to lure Nehemiah during the wall building; one of the high priest’s grandsons became his son-in-law.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 4:1
Tobiah
Ammonite official who jeered at the wall, sent intimidating letters, had ties of marriage and oath among Judah’s nobles, and was given a temple storeroom by Eliashib until…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 4:3; Nehemiah 6:17
Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ezra 7:1; Nehemiah 1:11; Nehemiah 1:1; Ezra 7:7; Esther 3:7
- 2 Proverbs 15:13; Genesis 40:7
- 3 Nehemiah 1:3; 1 Kings 1:31; Daniel 5:10; Psalm 137:6; Daniel 2:4
- 4 Philippians 4:6; Proverbs 3:6; Nehemiah 1:4; Nehemiah 1:11; 1 Kings 3:5
- 5 2 Samuel 14:22; Ruth 2:13; Esther 8:5; Ezra 5:17; Esther 5:8
- 6 Nehemiah 13:6; Nehemiah 5:14; Isaiah 65:24; Isaiah 58:12; Nehemiah 2:4
- 7 Ezra 7:21; Nehemiah 2:9; Ezra 8:36; Ezra 6:6; Ezra 8:22
- 8 Ezra 7:6; Isaiah 66:14; Nehemiah 7:2; Daniel 1:9; Nehemiah 2:17–18
- 9 Ezra 8:22
- 10 Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 4:7; Nehemiah 13:4; Acts 19:26–27; Proverbs 27:4
- 11 Ezra 8:32
- 12 Revelation 17:17; Ezra 7:27; Jeremiah 31:33; 2 Corinthians 8:16; Jeremiah 32:40
- 13 Nehemiah 1:3; 2 Chronicles 26:9; Nehemiah 2:17; Nehemiah 3:13–14; Nehemiah 2:3
- 14 Nehemiah 3:15; 2 Kings 20:20; 2 Chronicles 32:30; 2 Kings 18:17
- 15 2 Samuel 15:23; Jeremiah 31:38–40; John 18:1
- 17 Ezekiel 5:14; Isaiah 35:3–4; Psalm 79:4; Lamentations 3:51; Nehemiah 1:3
- 18 Philippians 2:13; 1 Chronicles 19:13; 2 Chronicles 32:5; Ephesians 6:10; Haggai 1:13–14
- 19 Nehemiah 6:6; Nehemiah 6:1–2; Psalm 44:13–14; Mark 5:40; Psalm 80:6
- 20 Ezra 4:3; Acts 8:21; Nehemiah 2:4; Isaiah 56:5; Acts 10:31
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences