1فلما سمع الملك حزقيا ذلك مزّق ثيابه وتغطى بمسح ودخل بيت الرب.
1It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.
2وارسل الياقيم الذي على البيت وشبنة الكاتب وشيوخ الكهنة متغطين بمسوح الى اشعياء بن آموص النبي.
2He sent Eliakim, who 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.
3فقالوا له. هكذا يقول حزقيا. هذا اليوم يوم شدة وتأديب واهانة. لان الاجنّة دنت الى المولد ولا قوة على الولادة.
3They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.
4لعل الرب الهك يسمع كلام ربشاقى الذي ارسله ملك اشور سيده ليعيّر الاله الحيّ فيوبخ على الكلام الذي سمعه الرب الهك. فارفع صلاة لاجل البقية الموجودة
4It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
5فجاء عبيد الملك حزقيا الى اشعياء.
5So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6فقال لهم اشعياء. هكذا تقولون لسيدكم. هكذا يقول الرب. لا تخف بسبب الكلام الذي سمعته الذي جدف عليّ به غلمان ملك اشور.
6Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7هانذا اجعل فيه روحا فيسمع خبرا ويرجع الى ارضه وأسقطه بالسيف في ارضه
7Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
8فرجع ربشاقى ووجد ملك اشور يحارب لبنة لانه سمع انه ارتحل عن لخيش.
8So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9وسمع عن ترهاقة ملك كوش قولا قد خرج ليحاربك. فلما سمع ارسل رسلا الى حزقيا قائلا
9He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10هكذا تكلمون حزقيا ملك يهوذا قائلين. لا يخدعك الهك الذي انت متوكل عليه قائلا لا تدفع اورشليم الى يد ملك اشور.
10“Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
11انك قد سمعت ما فعل ملوك اشور بجميع الاراضي لتحريمها وهل تنجو انت.
11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?
12هل انقذ آلهة الامم هؤلاء الذين اهلكهم آبائي جوزان وحاران ورصف وبني عدن الذين في تلسار.
12Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
13اين ملك حماة وملك ارفاد وملك مدينة سفروايم وهينع وعوّا
13Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”
14فاخذ حزقيا الرسائل من يد الرسل وقرأها ثم صعد الى بيت الرب ونشرها حزقيا امام الرب.
14Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.
15وصلى حزقيا الى الرب قائلا
15Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,
16يا رب الجنود اله اسرائيل الجالس فوق الكروبيم انت هو الاله وحدك لكل ممالك الارض. انت صنعت السموات والارض.
16“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
17أمل يا رب اذنك واسمع. افتح يا رب عينيك وانظر واسمع كل كلام سنحاريب الذي ارسله ليعير الله الحي.
17Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.
18حقا يا رب ان ملوك اشور قد خربوا كل الامم وارضهم.
18Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,
19ودفعوا آلهتهم الى النار. لانهم ليسوا آلهة بل صنعة ايدي الناس خشب وحجر فابادوهم.
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.
20والآن ايها الرب الهنا خلّصنا من يده فتعلم ممالك الارض كلها انك انت الرب وحدك
20Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”
21فارسل اشعياء بن آموص الى حزقيا قائلا. هكذا يقول الرب اله اسرائيل الذي صليت اليه من جهة سنحاريب ملك اشور.
21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
22هذا هو الكلام الذي تكلم به الرب عليه. احتقرتك واستهزأت بك العذراء ابنة صهيون. نحوك انغضت ابنة اورشليم راسها.
22this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
23من عيرت وجدفت وعلى من عليت صوتا وقد رفعت الى العلاء عينيك على قدوس اسرائيل.
23Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
24عن يد عبيدك عيّرت السيد وقلت بكثرة مركباتي قد صعدت الى علو الجبال عقاب لبنان فاقطع ارزه الطويل وافضل سروه وادخل اقصى علوه وعر كرمله.
24By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.
25انا قد حفرت وشربت مياها وانشف ببطن قدمي جميع خلجان مصر.
25I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
26ألم تسمع. منذ البعيد صنعته منذ الايام القديمة صوّرته. الآن اتيت به. فتكون لتخريب مدن محصنة حتى تصير روابي خربة.
26Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.
27فسكانها قصار الايدي قد ارتاعوا وخجلوا. صاروا كعشب الحقل وكالنبات الاخضر كحشيش السطوح وكالملفوح قبل نموّه.
27Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
28ولكنني عالم بجلوسك وخروجك ودخولك وهيجانك عليّ.
28But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
29لان هيجانك عليّ وعجرفتك قد صعدا الى اذنيّ اضع خزامتي في انفك وشكيمتي في شفتيك واردك في الطريق الذي جئت فيه
29Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
30وهذه لك العلامة. تأكلون هذه السنة زريعا وفي السنة الثانية خلفة واما السنة الثالثة ففيها تزرعون وتحصدون وتغرسون كروما وتأكلون اثمارها.
30This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
31ويعود الناجون من بيت يهوذا الباقون يتأصلون الى اسفل ويصنعون ثمرا الى ما فوق.
31The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
32لانه من اورشليم تخرج بقية وناجون من جبل صهيون. غيرة رب الجنود تصنع هذا
32For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go forth, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’
33لذلك هكذا يقول الرب عن ملك اشور. لا يدخل هذه المدينة ولا يرمي هناك سهما ولا يتقدم عليها بترس ولا يقيم عليها مترسة.
33Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
34في الطريق الذي جاء فيه يرجع والى هذه المدينة لا يدخل يقول الرب.
34By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.
35وأحامي عن هذه المدينة لاخلصها من اجل نفسي ومن اجل داود عبدي
35‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
36فخرج ملاك الرب وضرب من جيش اشور مئة وخمس وثمانين الفا. فلما بكروا صباحا اذا هم جميعا جثث ميتة.
36The angel of Yahweh went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
37فانصرف سنحاريب ملك اشور وذهب راجعا واقام في نينوى.
37So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.
38وفيما هو ساجد في بيت نسروخ الهه ضربه أدرملك وشرآصر ابناه بالسيف ونجوا الى ارض اراراط. وملك آسرحدون ابنه عوضا عنه
38It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.