¹And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

¹In ko je to slišal kralj Ezekija, si je raztrgal oblačila in pokril se je z raševino in šel v hišo GOSPODOVO.

²And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

²In pošlje Eljakima, načelnika dvorca, in Sebna, pisarja, ter starejšine duhovnikov, pokrite z raševino, k proroku Izaiju, sinu Amozovemu.

³And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

³In ti mu reko: Tako pravi Ezekija: Dan stiske in strahovanja in zasramovanja je ta dan; kajti otroci so prišli do poroda, a moči ni za porod.

⁴It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.

⁴Morda bo slišal GOSPOD, Bog tvoj, vse besede Rabsakove, s katerimi ga je poslal kralj asirski, gospod njegov, sramotit Boga živega, in bo kaznoval besede, ki jih je slišal GOSPOD, Bog tvoj. Zato povzdigni molitev za ostanke, kar jih še je.

⁵So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

⁵Ko so torej prišli hlapci Ezekija kralja k Izaiju,

⁶And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

⁶jim reče Izaija: Tako povejte gospodu svojemu: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Ne boj se zaradi tistih besed, ki si jih slišal, ki so me ž njimi preklinjali hlapci kralja asirskega!

⁷Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

⁷Glej, jaz mu vdahnem duha, da bo slišal glas in se vrnil v deželo svojo, in storim, da pade od meča v deželi svoji.

⁸So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

⁸In ko se vrne Rabsak, najde kralja asirskega v boju zoper Libno; slišal je bil namreč, da se je umaknil od Lahisa.

⁹And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,

⁹V tem zasliši, da pravijo o Tirhaku, kralju v Etiopiji: Glej, prišel se je vojskovat zoper tebe! In pošlje zopet sporočnikov k Ezekiju z ukazom:

¹⁰Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

¹⁰Tako govorite Ezekiju, kralju Judovemu, in recite: Naj te ne vara Bog tvoj, ki staviš nanj upanje, govoreč: Jeruzalem ne bo dan v roko kralja asirskega.

¹¹Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

¹¹Glej, sam si slišal, kaj so storili kralji asirski vsem drugim deželam, pokončavši jih docela, in ti bi se otel?

¹²Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?

¹²Ali so bogovi narodov oteli tiste, ki so jih pogubili očetje moji, Gozana in Harana in Rezefa in sinove Edena, ki so bili v Telasarju?

¹³Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?

¹³Kje je kralj hamatski in kralj arpadski in kralj mesta Sefarvaima in Hene in Ive?

¹⁴And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

¹⁴In ko Ezekija prejme pismo iz roke sporočnikov in ga prebere, gre gori v hišo GOSPODOVO in ga razgrne pred GOSPODOM.

¹⁵And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

¹⁵In molil je Ezekija pred GOSPODOM, govoreč: O GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov, ki stoluješ nad kerubi, ti si Bog, ti edini vsem kraljestvom na zemlji, ti si ustvaril nebesa in zemljo!

¹⁶LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.

¹⁶Nagni uho svoje, GOSPOD, in poslušaj, odpri oči svoje, GOSPOD, in poglej! In poslušaj besede Senaheriba, s katerimi ga je poslal sramotit Boga živega!

¹⁷Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

¹⁷Res je, GOSPOD, opustošili so kralji asirski one narode in njih dežele

¹⁸And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

¹⁸in so pometali njih bogove v ogenj, zakaj niso bili bogovi, ampak rok človeških delo, les in kamen; zato so jih pogubili.

¹⁹Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.

¹⁹Sedaj torej, GOSPOD, Bog naš, reši nas, prosim, iz roke njegove, da naj spoznajo vsa kraljestva na zemlji, da si ti GOSPOD Bog, ti edini.

²⁰Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.

²⁰Tedaj pošlje Izaija, sin Amozov, k Ezekiju in sporoči: Tako pravi GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov: Kar si molil k meni spričo Senaheriba, kralja asirskega, sem slišal.

²¹This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

²¹To je beseda, ki jo je govoril GOSPOD o njem: Zaničuje te, zasmehuje te devica, hči sionska, za teboj maje glavo hči jeruzalemska.

²²Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

²²Koga si sramotil in preklinjal? in zoper koga si zagnal svoj glas in ošabno povzdignil svoje oči? Zoper Svetnika Izraelovega!

²³By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

²³Po poslancih svojih si sramotil GOSPODA, ko si govoril: Z množico svojih voz sem prišel na vrh gorá, do najvišje strani Libanona; in posekam visoke cedre njegove in najboljše ciprese njegove; vstopim tudi v najdaljnejše prenočišče njegovo, v gaj na vrtu njegovem.

²⁴I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

²⁴Jaz sem kopal in izpil tuje vodnjake, in s stopalom nog svojih hočem posušiti vse egiptovske reke.

²⁵Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

²⁵A nisi li slišal, da sem jaz to napravljal od zdavnaj in snoval od starih časov? Sedaj sem storil, da je prišlo to, da rušiš utrjena mesta v kupe razvalin.

²⁶Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

²⁶Zato so bili njih prebivalci slabotnih rok, prestrašeni in zbegani; bili so kakor trava na polju in kakor zelenjava mehka, kakor trava na strehah in kakor žito posmojeno, preden gre v latje.

²⁷But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

²⁷In sejo tvojo in odhod in prihod tvoj poznam, tudi divjanje tvoje zoper mene.

²⁸Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

²⁸Ker divjanje tvoje zoper mene in lahkoživstvo tvoje je prišlo do mojih ušes, zato denem svoj obroček v tvoj nos in uzdo svojo med ustnice tvoje, in povedem te nazaj po tistem potu, po katerem si prišel. –

²⁹And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.

²⁹In to ti bodi v znamenje: to leto boste jedli, kar samo zraste, drugo leto pa, kar po tem priraste, v tretjem letu sejte in ženjite in sadite vinograde ter jejte njih sad.

³⁰And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

³⁰In kar se od hiše Judove ohrani, kar preostane, bo zopet poganjalo korenine spodaj in rodilo sad zgoraj.

³¹For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

³¹Zakaj iz Jeruzalema izide ostanek in s Sionske gore tisti, ki se bodo rešili; gorečnost GOSPODA nad vojskami stori to.

³²Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.

³²Zatorej pravi tako GOSPOD zastran kralja asirskega: Ne pride v to mesto in pšice ne ustreli sem, tudi ščita mu ne bo stavil nasproti, ne nanašal nasipov zoper njega.

³³By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.

³³Po istem potu, po katerem je prišel, se vrne, v to mesto pa ne pride, govori GOSPOD.

³⁴For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

³⁴Zakaj branil bom to mesto, da ga rešim, zaradi sebe in zaradi Davida, hlapca svojega.

³⁵And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

³⁵In zgodi se to noč, da izide angel GOSPODOV ter jih pobije v asirskem ostrogu sto petinosemdeset tisoč; in ko so vstali zjutraj, glej, bili so vsi tisti trupla mrtvih.

³⁶So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

³⁶Senaherib torej, kralj asirski, se vzdigne in odide in se vrne in ostane v Ninivah.Tam je bilo, ko se je klanjal v hiši Nisroka, boga svojega, da ga Adramelek in Sarezer, sina njegova, udarita z mečem in pobegneta v deželo Araratsko. In kraljeval je sin njegov Esar-hadon namesto njega.

³⁷And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

³⁷Tam je bilo, ko se je klanjal v hiši Nisroka, boga svojega, da ga Adramelek in Sarezer, sina njegova, udarita z mečem in pobegneta v deželo Araratsko. In kraljeval je sin njegov Esar-hadon namesto njega.