以斯拉记 5
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
再次重建圣殿之工
5 那时，哈该先知和易多的儿子撒迦利亚先知奉以色列 神的名，向在犹大地和耶路撒冷的犹大人传讲信息。 2 于是，撒拉铁的儿子所罗巴伯和约萨达的儿子耶书亚都起来，开始重建在耶路撒冷的 神的殿， 神的先知们和他们在一起，帮助他们。 3 当时，河西那边的总督达乃和示他．波斯乃，以及他们的同僚来到他们那里，这样问他们说：“谁下令叫你们重建这殿，完成这工程呢？” 4 他们又这样问：“负责这建筑工程的人叫甚么名字？” 5 但是 神的眼目看顾犹大人的长老，以致总督等人没有阻止他们建造；直到这事奏告大利乌王，得着有关这事的回谕为止。
上奏大利乌王
6 这就是河西那边的省长达乃和示他．波斯乃，以及他们的同僚，就是在河西那边的亚法萨迦人，呈给大利乌王的奏文副本。 7 他们在呈给王的奏文中这样写：“愿大利乌王万事平安。 8 奏知大王：我们去过这犹大省，到了伟大 神的殿，见殿正用光滑石块修建，梁木插入墙内；这工程在他们手里进行得审慎而迅速。 9 于是，我们就这样问那些长老，对他们说：‘谁下令叫你们重建这殿，完成这工程呢？’ 10 为了奏知大王，就问他们的名字，记录他们首领的名。 11 他们这样答复我们，说：‘我们是天地之 神的仆人，正在重建这多年以前已经建好的殿，就是一位以色列伟大的君王所建成的。 12 但因为我们的祖先激怒了天上的 神， 神就把他们交在迦勒底人巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒的手中；尼布甲尼撒就拆毁这殿，把人民掳到巴比伦去。 13 然而在巴比伦王古列元年，古列王下令重建这 神的殿。 14 至于从前尼布甲尼撒从耶路撒冷的殿里掠夺，带到巴比伦庙里的神殿中的金银器皿，古列王也从巴比伦的庙中拿出来，把它们交给一位名叫设巴萨的人，委任他为总督。 15 又吩咐他说：把这些器皿带去，存放在耶路撒冷的殿中；使 神的殿在原来的地方重建起来。 16 于是，这设巴萨回来，奠立了在耶路撒冷 神的殿的根基；从那时起，到现在一直在建造，还没有完成。’ 17 现在王若是以为好，就请查考王在巴比伦的库房，看看那里有没有古列王下令，重建这在耶路撒冷 神的殿的谕旨，并请指示我们王对这事的旨意。”
Ezra 5
Good News Translation
5 (A)At that time two prophets, Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo, began to speak in the name of the God of Israel to the Jews who lived in Judah and Jerusalem. 2 (B)When Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak heard their messages, they began to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem, and the two prophets helped them.
3 Almost at once Governor Tattenai of West-of-Euphrates, Shethar Bozenai, and their fellow officials came to Jerusalem and demanded: “Who gave you orders to build this Temple and equip it?” 4 They[a] also asked for the names of all the men who were helping build the Temple. 5 But God was watching over the Jewish leaders, and the Persian officials decided to take no action until they could write to Emperor Darius and receive a reply. 6 This is the report that they sent to the emperor:
7 “To Emperor Darius, may you rule in peace.
8 “Your Majesty should know that we went to the province of Judah and found that the Temple of the great God is being rebuilt with large stone blocks and with wooden beams set in the wall. The work is being done with great care and is moving ahead steadily.
9 “We then asked the leaders of the people to tell us who had given them authority to rebuild the Temple and to equip it. 10 We also asked them their names so that we could inform you who the leaders of this work are.
11 “They answered, ‘We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the Temple which was originally built and equipped many years ago by a powerful king of Israel. 12 (C)But because our ancestors made the God of Heaven angry, he let them be conquered by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, a king of the Chaldean dynasty. The Temple was destroyed, and the people were taken into exile in Babylonia. 13 (D)Then in the first year of the reign of King Cyrus as emperor of Babylonia, Cyrus issued orders for the Temple to be rebuilt. 14 He restored the gold and silver Temple utensils which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem and had placed in the temple in Babylon. Emperor Cyrus turned these utensils over to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor of Judah. 15 The emperor told him to take them and return them to the Temple in Jerusalem, and to rebuild the Temple where it had stood before. 16 So Sheshbazzar came and laid its foundation; construction has continued from then until the present, but it is still not finished.’
17 “Now, if it please Your Majesty, have a search made in the royal records in Babylon to find whether or not Emperor Cyrus gave orders for this Temple in Jerusalem to be rebuilt, and then inform us what your will is in this matter.”
Footnotes
- Ezra 5:4 Some ancient translations They; Aramaic We.
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