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 raztrga oblačila in se ogrne z raševino in stopi v hišo GOSPODOVO.

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

²In pošlje Eljakima, ki je bil nad dvorcem, in Sebna pisarja ter starejšine duhovnikov, odete 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 of 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 blizu do poroda, a moči ni za porod.

⁴It may be the LORD thy God will hear 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 is left.

⁴Morda bo slišal GOSPOD, Bog tvoj, besede Rabsakove, ki ga je poslal kralj asirski, gospod njegov, sramotit Boga živega, in bo kaznoval besede, ki jih je slišal GOSPOD, Bog tvoj. Zato povzdigni prošnjo 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 unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

⁶jim reče Izaija: Tako povejte gospodu svojemu: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Ne boj se spričo tistih besed, ki si jih slišal, s katerimi so me preklinjali hlapci kralja asirskega.

⁷Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and 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 začuje glas in se vrne 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 Rabsak se vrne in najde kralja asirskega, vojskujočega se z Libno; slišal je bil namreč, da je odpotoval od Lahisa.

⁹And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

⁹V tem zasliši, da govorijo o Tirhaku, kralju v Etiopiji: Gre se vojskovat zoper tebe. Ko je to slišal, pošlje poslance 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 given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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

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, kar 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 Telassar?

¹²So li mar oteli bogovi narodov 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 Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

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

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

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

¹⁵And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,

¹⁵In molil je Ezekija h GOSPODU, govoreč:

¹⁶O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.

¹⁶GOSPOD nad vojskami, Bog Izraelov, ki stoluješ nad kerubi, ti si Bog, ti edini, vsem kraljestvom na zemlji, ti si ustvaril nebesa in zemljo.

¹⁷Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.

¹⁷Nagni, o GOSPOD, uho svoje in poslušaj, odpri, GOSPOD, oči svoje in glej, in poslušaj vse besede Senaheriba, ki je poslal sramotit živega Boga.

¹⁸Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

¹⁸Res je, GOSPOD, opustošili so kralji asirski vse one narode in njih deželo;

¹⁹And 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.

¹⁹in vrgli so njih bogove v ogenj, ker niso bili bogovi, ampak rok človeških delo, les in kamen; zato so jih pogubili.

²⁰Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.

²⁰Sedaj torej, GOSPOD, Bog naš, reši nas iz roke njegove, da bi spoznala vsa kraljestva na zemlji, da si ti GOSPOD, ti edini.

²¹Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:

²¹Tedaj pošlje Izaija, sin Amozov, k Ezekiju, da mu reko: Tako pravi GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov: Ker si me prosil spričo Senaheriba, kralja asirskega,

²²This is the word which 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.

²²to je beseda, ki jo je govoril GOSPOD za njega: Zaničuje te, zasmehuje te devica, hči sionska, za teboj maje glavo hči jeruzalemska.

²³Whom 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.

²³Koga si sramotil in preklinjal? in zoper koga si zagnal svoj glas in ošabno povzdignil oči svoje? Zoper Svetnika Izraelovega!

²⁴By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.

²⁴Po hlapcih svojih si sramotil Gospoda, ko si govoril: Z množico voz svojih sem prišel na vrh gorá, do najvišje strani Libanona; in posekam na njem visoke cedre in izbrane ciprese njegove, stopim tudi na največjo višino njegovo, v gaj na vrtu njegovem.

²⁵I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

²⁵Jaz sem kopal vodnjake in izpil vode, in s stopalom nog svojih hočem posušiti vse reke v Egiptu.

²⁶Hast 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 defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

²⁶A nisi li slišal, da sem jaz to delal od zdavnaj in snoval od starih časov? Sedaj sem storil, da je prišlo to, da rušiš utrjena mesta v kupe razvalin.

²⁷Therefore 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 housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

²⁷Zato so bili njih prebivalci slabotnih rok, prestrašeni in izbegani; bili so kakor trava na njivi in kakor mehka zelenjava, kakor seno po strehah in žito posmojeno, preden gre v latje.

²⁸But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

²⁸In sejo tvojo in odhod in prihod tvoj poznam, tudi divjanje tvoje zoper mene.

²⁹Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I 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.

²⁹Ker divjanje tvoje zoper mene in lahkoživstvo tvoje je prišlo do ušes mojih, zato denem obroček svoj v tvoj nos in uzdo svojo med ustnice tvoje, in povedem te nazaj po tistem potu, po katerem si prišel.

³⁰And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

³⁰In to ti bodi znamenje: letos boste jedli, kar samo zraste, drugo leto pa, kar po tem priraste, v tretjem letu pa sejte in ženjite in sadite vinograde ter jejte njih sad.

³¹And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

³¹In ohranjenci hiše Judove, kar jih preostane, bodo poganjali zopet korenine spodaj in rodili sad zgoraj.

³²For 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.

³²Zakaj iz Jeruzalema izide ostanek in s Sionske gore tisti, ki se bodo ohranili; gorečnost GOSPODA nad vojskami stori to.

³³Therefore 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 shields, nor cast a bank against it.

³³Zatorej pravi tako GOSPOD za kralja asirskega: Ne pride v to mesto in pšic ne sproži sem, tudi ščita mu ne postavi nasproti in nasipov ne napravi zoper njega.

³⁴By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.

³⁴Po istem potu, po katerem je prišel, se vrne, v to mesto pa ne pride, pravi GOSPOD.

³⁵For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

³⁵Kajti branil bom to mesto, da ga rešim, zaradi sebe in zaradi Davida, svojega hlapca.

³⁶Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

³⁶In šel je angel GOSPODOV ter jih pobil v asirskem ostrogu sto in petinosemdeset tisoč. In ko so vstali zjutraj, glej, bili so vsi tisti trupla mrtvih.

³⁷So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

³⁷Zato se vzdigne Senaherib, kralj asirski, in odide in se vrne ter ostane v Ninivah.In zgodilo se je, ko se je klanjal v hiši Nisroka, boga svojega, da ga Adramelek in Sarezer, sinova njegova, udarita z mečem in pobegneta v deželo Araratsko. In kraljeval je sin njegov Esar-hadon namesto njega.

³⁸And 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.

³⁸In zgodilo se je, ko se je klanjal v hiši Nisroka, boga svojega, da ga Adramelek in Sarezer, sinova njegova, udarita z mečem in pobegneta v deželo Araratsko. In kraljeval je sin njegov Esar-hadon namesto njega.