尼希米記 5	Nehemiah 5
尼希米記 5:1 ^ 百姓和他們的妻大大呼號、埋怨他們的弟兄猶大人。	Nehemiah 5:1 ^ Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.
尼希米記 5:2 ^ 有的說、我們和兒女人口眾多．要去得糧食度命。	Nehemiah 5:2 ^ For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.
尼希米記 5:3 ^ 有的說、我們典了田地、葡萄園、房屋．要得糧食充飢．	Nehemiah 5:3 ^ And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.
尼希米記 5:4 ^ 有的說、我們已經指著田地、葡萄園、借了錢、給王納稅。	Nehemiah 5:4 ^ And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.
尼希米記 5:5 ^ 我們的身體、與我們弟兄的身體一樣、我們的兒女與他們的兒女一般．現在我們將要使兒女作人的僕婢、我們的女兒已有為婢的．我們並無力拯救．因為我們的田地、葡萄園、已經歸了別人。	Nehemiah 5:5 ^ But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
尼希米記 5:6 ^ 我聽見他們呼號、說這些話、便甚發怒。	Nehemiah 5:6 ^ And on hearing their outcry and what they said I was very angry.
尼希米記 5:7 ^ 我心裡籌畫、就斥責貴冑、和官長、說、你們各人向弟兄取利。於是我招聚大會攻擊他們。	Nehemiah 5:7 ^ And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest.
尼希米記 5:8 ^ 我對他們說、我們盡力贖回我們弟兄、就是賣與外邦的猶大人、你們還要賣弟兄、使我們贖回來麼。他們就靜默不語、無話可答。	Nehemiah 5:8 ^ And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.
尼希米記 5:9 ^ 我又說、你們所行的不善．你們行事不當敬畏我們的　神麼．不然、難免我們的仇敵外邦人毀謗我們。	Nehemiah 5:9 ^ And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?
尼希米記 5:10 ^ 我和我的弟兄、與僕人、也將銀錢糧食借給百姓．我們大家都當免去利息。	Nehemiah 5:10 ^ Even I and my servants have been taking interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give up this thing.
尼希米記 5:11 ^ 如今我勸你們將他們的田地、葡萄園、橄欖園、房屋、並向他們所取的銀錢、糧食、新酒、和油、百分之一的利息都歸還他們。	Nehemiah 5:11 ^ Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.
尼希米記 5:12 ^ 眾人說、我們必歸還、不再向他們索要、必照你的話行．我就召了祭司來、叫眾人起誓、必照著所應許的而行。	Nehemiah 5:12 ^ Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.
尼希米記 5:13 ^ 我也抖著胸前的衣襟說、凡不成就這應許的、願　神照樣抖他離開家產和他勞碌得來的、直到抖空了。會眾都說、阿們、又讚美耶和華。百姓就照著所應許的去行。	Nehemiah 5:13 ^ And shaking out the folds of my robe, I said, So may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement; even so let him be sent out and made as nothing. And all the meeting of the people said, So be it, and gave praise to the Lord. And the people did as they had said.
尼希米記 5:14 ^ 自從我奉派作猶大地的省長、就是從亞達薛西王二十年、直到三十二年、共十二年之久、我與我弟兄都沒有喫省長的俸祿。	Nehemiah 5:14 ^ Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.
尼希米記 5:15 ^ 在我以前的省長、加重百姓的擔子、每日索要糧食和酒、並銀子四十舍客勒、就是他們的僕人也轄制百姓．但我因敬畏　神、不這樣行。	Nehemiah 5:15 ^ But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
尼希米記 5:16 ^ 並且我恆心修造城牆、並沒有置買田地．我的僕人也都聚集在那裡作工。	Nehemiah 5:16 ^ And I kept on with the work of this wall, and we got no land for ourselves: and all my servants were helping with the work.
尼希米記 5:17 ^ 除了從四圍外邦中來的猶大人以外、有猶大平民和官長、一百五十人在我席上喫飯。	Nehemiah 5:17 ^ And more than this, a hundred and fifty of the Jews and the rulers were guests at my table, in addition to those who came to us from the nations round about us.
尼希米記 5:18 ^ 每日豫備一隻公牛、六隻肥羊．又豫備些飛禽、每十日一次、多豫備各樣的酒．雖然如此、我並不要省長的俸祿．因為百姓服役甚重。	Nehemiah 5:18 ^ Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.
尼希米記 5:19 ^ 我的　神阿、求你記念我為這百姓所行的一切事、施恩與我。	Nehemiah 5:19 ^ Keep in mind, O my God, for my good, all I have done for this people.