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Ne 4:1-6.
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英語原文
Ne 4:1-6.
WHILE THE ENEMIES SCOFF, NEHEMIAH PRAYS TO GOD, AND CONTINUES THE WORK.
1. when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth--The Samaritan faction showed their bitter animosity to the Jews on discovering the systematic design of refortifying Jerusalem. Their opposition was confined at first to scoffs and insults, in heaping which the governors made themselves conspicuous, and circulated all sorts of disparaging reflections that might increase the feelings of hatred and contempt for them in their own party. The weakness of the Jews in respect of wealth and numbers, the absurdity of their purpose apparently to reconstruct the walls and celebrate the feast of dedication in one day, the idea of raising the walls on their old foundations, as well as using the charred and mouldering debris of the ruins as the materials for the restored buildings, and the hope of such a parapet as they could raise being capable of serving as a fortress of defense--these all afforded fertile subjects of hostile ridicule.
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3. 狐狸上去——之所以提到狐狸，是因为它们成群出没于锡安山与锡安城那些毁坏荒凉之处，这是众所周知的事
（La 5:18）。
英語原文
3. if a fox go up--The foxes were mentioned because they were known to infest in great numbers the ruined and desolate places in the mount and city of Zion
(La 5:18).
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简体中文
4-5. 我们的神啊，求你垂听，因为我们被藐视——此处所发的咒诅似嫌严厉、苛刻、报复；但须记得，尼希米和他的同伴视那些撒玛利亚首领为神及其百姓之事业的仇敌，因此当受重罚。所以这祷告当视为出自这样的心：在其中有敬虔与爱国、为神的荣耀与其事业之成功的热忱掌管着主导之权，而非仇恨、报复或任何卑劣的情感。
英語原文
4, 5. Hear, O our God; for we are despised--The imprecations invoked here may seem harsh, cruel, and vindictive; but it must be remembered that Nehemiah and his friends regarded those Samaritan leaders as enemies to the cause of God and His people, and therefore as deserving to be visited with heavy judgments. The prayer, therefore, is to be considered as emanating from hearts in which neither hatred, revenge, nor any inferior passion, but a pious and patriotic zeal for the glory of God and the success of His cause, held the ascendant sway.
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6. 城墙修造至一半的高度——城墙的整个周围已分成若干段，分派给各班百姓，并已修到预定高度的一半。
英語原文
6. all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof--The whole circuit of the wall had been distributed in sections to various companies of the people, and was completed to the half of the intended height.
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Ne 4:7-23.
简体中文
Ne 4:7-23.
他设立守望。
7-21. ……参巴拉……听见城墙……修造，破口……补好——尽管他们百般预言相反，城墙的修缮却进展迅速，这激怒了撒玛利亚人。他们因犹太人日益强盛而惧怕将来的危险，便阴谋突袭他们、拆毁他们的工程、并驱散或恐吓建造者。这阴谋既被发觉，尼希米便采取最严厉的措施，以确保共同的安全，并使城墙的建造不被中断。省长为求速效，先前将所有随从和卫士都派上工——如今撤回一半，使他们经常处于武装状态。做工的人一手做工、一手拿刀；因城墙范围如此之大，他们彼此相隔甚远，尼希米（他日夜驻守其地，并以敬虔的劝勉和榜样鼓舞百姓的心）身边常带一名吹号的人，这样一旦有突袭的消息传来，便可立即吹响号角，并向最远的弟兄分队施援。借着这些警醒的预防，仇敌的计谋被挫败，工程迅速推进。神既要做重大的公开事工，必兴起器皿来完成；在尼希米身上——他既具天生的敏锐和精力，又加上恳切的敬虔与英勇的奉献——神预备了一位领袖，其崇高的资质正合乎危机的需要。尼希米的警醒预先防备了一切困难，他审慎的措施挫败了一切阻挠，耶路撒冷竟以惊人的速度再次成为「坚固的城」。
英語原文
Ne 4:7-23.
HE SETS A WATCH.
7-21. But . . . when Sanballat . . . heard that the walls . . . were made up, and . . . the breaches . . . stopped--The rapid progress of the fortifications, despite all their predictions to the contrary, goaded the Samaritans to frenzy. So they, dreading danger from the growing greatness of the Jews, formed a conspiracy to surprise them, demolish their works, and disperse or intimidate the builders. The plot being discovered, Nehemiah adopted the most energetic measures for ensuring the common safety, as well as the uninterrupted building of the walls. Hitherto the governor, for the sake of despatch, had set all his attendants and guards on the work--now half of them were withdrawn to be constantly in arms. The workmen labored with a trowel in one hand and a sword in the other; and as, in so large a circuit, they were far removed from each other, Nehemiah (who was night and day on the spot, and, by his pious exhortations and example, animated the minds of his people) kept a trumpeter by his side, so that, on any intelligence of a surprise being brought to him, an alarm might be immediately sounded, and assistance rendered to the most distant detachment of their brethren. By these vigilant precautions, the counsels of the enemy were defeated, and the work was carried on apace. God, when He has important public work to do, never fails to raise up instruments for accomplishing it, and in the person of Nehemiah, who, to great natural acuteness and energy added fervent piety and heroic devotion, He provided a leader, whose high qualities fitted him for the demands of the crisis. Nehemiah's vigilance anticipated every difficulty, his prudent measures defeated every obstruction, and with astonishing rapidity this Jerusalem was made again "a city fortified."
Ne 4:1-6.
仇敌嗤笑之时，尼希米向神呼求，并继续做工。
1. 参巴拉听见我们修造城墙就发怒——撒玛利亚一派发现犹太人有系统地要重新加固耶路撒冷时，便显出对犹太人极深的仇恨。他们起初的对抗仅限于讥诮和侮辱；在这些事上首领们尤其卖力，散布各种贬损之词，好在自己党羽中加深对犹太人的仇恨与轻蔑。犹太人在财富和人数上的薄弱，他们显然要在一日之内重建城墙并举行奉献之礼的荒谬设想，要在旧的根基上重新立墙、又要用烧焦朽烂的废墟残砾作为复建之料的打算，以及他们所能筑起的如此矮墙竟能充当防御堡垒的指望——这一切都为敌方的嘲弄提供了取之不尽的话题。