¹Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

¹In zgodilo se je v štirinajstem letu kralja Ezekija, da je šel Senaherib, kralj asirski, gori zoper vsa utrjena mesta Judova in se jih polastil.

²And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.

²Pošlje pa kralj asirski Rabsaka iz Lahisa v Jeruzalem proti kralju Ezekiju z mnogoštevilno vojsko. Ta se ustavi pri vodovodu gornjega ribnika ob poti valjalčeve njive.

³Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.

³Tedaj pride ven k njemu Eljakim, sin Hilkijev, ki je bil nad dvorcem, in pisar Sebna in Joah, sin Asafov, letopisec.

⁴And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

⁴Njim reče Rabsak: Povejte vendar Ezekiju: Tako pravi kralj veliki, kralj asirski: Kakšno upanje je to, na katero se zanašaš?

⁵I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

⁵Pravim ti: Tvoj svet in moč za vojskovanje je le prazna beseda. Na koga se torej zanašaš, da si se mi uprl?

⁶Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

⁶Glej, zanašaš se na palico iz zlomljenega trsta, na Egipt; katera se mu, ko se kdo nasloni nanjo, zadere v dlan in jo prebode. Tako je Faraon, kralj egiptovski, vsem, ki stavijo upanje vanj.

⁷But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

⁷Ako mi pa porečeš: V GOSPODA, Boga svojega, upamo! ali ni on tisti, čigar višave in oltarje je odpravil Ezekija in je velel Judi in Jeruzalemu: Pred tem oltarjem molite!

⁸Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

⁸A sedaj, naredi vendar stavo z gospodom mojim, kraljem asirskim, in dam ti dvakrat tisoč konj, ako boš imel jezdecev, da jih posadiš nanje.

⁹How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

⁹Kako bi torej mogel zapoditi le enega voditelja najmanjših hlapcev gospoda mojega? Ali ti se zanašaš na Egipt zaradi voz in konjikov!

¹⁰And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

¹⁰Sem li mar sedaj brez GOSPODA prišel gori zoper to deželo, da jo pogubim? GOSPOD mi je velel: Idi gori v tisto deželo ter pogubi jo!

¹¹Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

¹¹Tedaj reko Eljakim in Sebna in Joah Rabsaku: Govóri, prosim, hlapcem svojim po sirsko, saj razumemo, in ne govori nam po judovsko, ker sliši ljudstvo, ki je na zidovju.

¹²But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

¹²Ali Rabsak reče: Me je li h gospodu tvojemu in k tebi poslal gospod moj, da naj govorim besede te? Ali ne k onim možem, ki sede po zidovju, da jedo blato svoje in pijo vodo svojo z vami vred?

¹³Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

¹³Rabsak torej se ustopi in zavpije z glasom velikim po judovsko in reče: Čujte besede velikega kralja, kralja asirskega!

¹⁴Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.

¹⁴Tako pravi kralj: Naj vas ne prekani Ezekija, kajti ne bo vas mogel oteti.

¹⁵Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

¹⁵In ne pregovóri vas Ezekija, da bi upali v GOSPODA, govoreč: Gotovo nas otme GOSPOD; to mesto ne bo dano kralju asirskemu v roko!

¹⁶Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;

¹⁶Ne poslušajte Ezekija! Kajti tako pravi kralj asirski: Pogodite se z menoj za mir in pridite k meni ter jejte vsak svoje trte sad in vsak svoje smokve sad in pijte vsak svojega vodnjaka vodo,

¹⁷Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

¹⁷dokler ne pridem ter vas vzamem v deželo, podobno vaši deželi, v deželo, kjer je obilo žita in vina, kruha in vinogradov.

¹⁸Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

¹⁸Ne zapelji vas Ezekija, govoreč: GOSPOD nas otme. Ali so bogovi narodov oteli vsak svojo deželo iz roke kralja asirskega?

¹⁹Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

¹⁹Kje so bogovi Hamata in Arpada, kje bogovi Sefarvaima? Ali so neki oteli Samarijo iz moje roke?

²⁰Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

²⁰Kateri so med vsemi bogovi tistih dežel, ki so deželo svojo oteli iz roke moje, da bi GOSPOD otel Jeruzalem iz roke moje?

²¹But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

²¹A oni so molčali in mu niso odgovorili besede, zakaj kraljev ukaz je velel: Ne odgovarjajte mu!Pride torej Eljakim, Hilkijev sin, ki je bil nad dvorcem, in Sebna pisar in Joah, Asafov sin, letopisec, k Ezekiju z raztrgano obleko in mu naznanijo besede Rabsakove.

²²Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

²²Pride torej Eljakim, Hilkijev sin, ki je bil nad dvorcem, in Sebna pisar in Joah, Asafov sin, letopisec, k Ezekiju z raztrgano obleko in mu naznanijo besede Rabsakove.