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

¹Zvino mambo Hezekia akati achizvinzwa, akabvarura nguvo dzake, akafuka makudza, akapinda mumba maJehovha.

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

²Akatuma Eriakimu aichengeta imba, naShebhina munyori, navakuru vavapristi, vakafuka makudza, kumuporofita Isaya mwanakomana waAmozi.

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

³Vakati kwaari, Zvanzi naHezekia, Nhasi izuva rokutambudzika, nerokutukwa, nerokuzvidzwa; nekuti vana vakasvika pakuzvarwa, asi hakuna simba rokuzvara naro.

⁴It may be Jehovah thy God will hear the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.

⁴Zvimwe Mwari wenyu achanzwa mashoko ose omukuru wavatariri, akatumwa namambo weAsiria tenzi wake, kuzvidza Mwari mupenyu, agovatuka pamusoro pamashoko aakanzwa iye Jehovha Mwari wenyu; naizvozvo nyengetererai vakasara.

⁵And the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

⁵Naizvozvo varanda vamambo Hezekia vakasvika kuna Isaya.

⁶And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith Jehovah: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

⁶Isaya akati kwavari, Udzai tenzi wenyu, muti, zvanzi naJehovha, Usatya hako mashoko awanzwa, andakamhurwa nawo navaranda vamambo weAsiria.

⁷Behold, I will put a spirit into him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

⁷Tarira, ndichaisa mweya wokutya mukati make, achanzwa guhu, ndokudzokera kunyika yake; ndichamuurayisa nomunondo munyika yake.

⁸And Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.

⁸Naizvozvo mukuru wavatariri akadzoka, akawana mambo weAsiria achirwa neRibhina, nekuti akanga anzwa kuti wabva Rakishi.

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

⁹Zvino akanzwa pamusoro paTirihaka mambo weltiopia, zvichinzi, Auya kuzorwa newe. Zvino akati azvinzwa, akatuma nhume kuna Hezekia, achiti,

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

¹⁰Endai mundoudza Hezekia mambo waJudha, muti, Mwari wako, waunovimba naye, ngaarege kukunyengera, achiti, Jerusaremu haringapiwi muruoko rwamambo weAsiria.

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

¹¹Tarira, wakanzwa zvakaitirwa nyika dzose namadzimambo eAsiria, kuti vakadziparadza chose; zvino iwe ucharwirwa here?

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

¹²Ko vamwari vamamwe marudzi vakavarwira here, iwo akaparadzwa namadzibaba angu, vanoti, Gozani, naHarani, naRezefi, navana vaEdheni, vaiva paTerasari?

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

¹³Mambo weHamati ariko, namambo weAripadhi, namambo weguta reSafarivhaimi, neHena, neIvha?

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

¹⁴Hezekia akagamuchira tsamba pamaoko enhume, akairava; Hezekia akakwira kumba kwaJehovha, akaipetenura pamberi paJehovha.

¹⁵And Hezekiah prayed to Jehovah, saying,

¹⁵Ipapo Hezekia akanyengetera kuna Jehovha, achiti,

¹⁶Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, who sittest [between] the cherubim, thou, the Same, thou alone art the God of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made the heavens and the earth.

¹⁶Haiwa Jehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, iye ugere pamusoro pamakerubhimi! Ndimi Mwari, imwi moga, woushe hwose bwenyika, ndimi makaita kudenga napasi.

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

¹⁷Rerekerai nzeve yenyu, Jehovha, munzwe; svinudzai meso enyu, Jehovha, muone; inzwai mashoko ose aSaniheribhi, akatuma nhume kuzozvidza Mwari mupenyu.

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

¹⁸Zvirokwazvo, Jehovha, madzimambo eAsiria akaparadza marudzi ose nenyika dzawo,

¹⁹and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.

¹⁹akakandira vamwari vavo mumoto; nekuti vakanga vasi vamwari, asi rakanga riri basa ramaoko avanhu, ari matanda namabwe; naizvozvo akavaparadza.

²⁰And now, Jehovah our God, save us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art Jehovah, thou only.

²⁰Naizvozvo zvino, Jehovha, Mwari wedu, tiponesei paruoko rwake, kuti ushe hwose bwenyika huzive kuti ndimi Jehovha, iyemi moga.

²¹And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,

²¹Ipapo Isaya mwanakomana waAmozi, akatuma shoko kuna Hezekia, akati, Zvanzi naJehovha Mwari waIsiraeri, Zvawanyengetera kwandiri pamusoro paSaniheribhi mambo weAsiria,

²²this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken against him: The virgin-daughter of Zion despiseth thee, laugheth thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem shaketh her head at thee.

²²heri shoko rakataurwa naJehovha, pamusoro pake, Mhandara, mukunda weZiyoni, wakakushora nokukuseka; mukunda weJerusaremu wakakudzungudzira musoro wake.

²³Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy One of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high.

²³Ndianiko wawakatuka nokuzvidza? Wakazvikudza kuna aniko nenzwi rako, meso ako akatarira aniko kudenga? NdiMutsvene waIsiraeri!

²⁴By thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the recesses of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, the choice of its cypresses; and I will enter into its furthest height, [into] the forest of its fruitful field.

²⁴Watuka Jehovha navaranda vako, ukati, Ndakwira kumakomo marefu nengoro dzangu zhinji, kunzvimbo dzomukati dzeRebhanoni; ndichatema misidhari mirefu iripo, nemisiperesi yakatsaurwa iripo, ndichipa kusvikira kumusoro-soro kwaro, kudondo raro rinobereka zvakanaka;

²⁵I have digged and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.

²⁵ndakachera ndikamwa mvura, ndichapwisa nzizi dzose dzeEgipita nokutsika netsoka dzangu.

²⁶Hast thou not heard that long ago I did it, and that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities [into] ruinous heaps.

²⁶Hauna kunzwa here kuti ndakazviita kare, kuti ndakazvirayira nenguva dzokutanga-tanga? Zvino ndakarayira zviitike, kuti iwe uve muparadzi wamaguta akakombwa namasvingo, ave matongo.

²⁷And their inhabitants were powerless, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were [as] the grass of the field and the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up.

²⁷Naizvizvo vakanga vageremo vakanga vane simba duku, vakavhundutswa nokunyadziswa; vakafanana nouswa bwebundo, nomuriwo mutema, nouswa huri pamusoro peimba, nomunda wezviyo zvigere kukura.

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

²⁸Asi ndinoziva kugara kwako pasi, nokubuda kwako, nokupinda kwako, uye hasha dzako kwandiri.

²⁹Because thy raging against me and thine arrogance is come up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will make thee go back by the way by which thou camest.

²⁹Nokuda kwehasha dzako kwandiri, uye nekuti ndakanzwa, kuzvikudza kwako, ndichaisa rwauro rwangu mumhino dzako, netomu rangu mumiromo yako, ndikudzosere nenzira yawakauya nayo.

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

³⁰Ichi ndicho chichava chiratidzo kwauri: nhaka muchadya zvinongomera zvoga, negore rechipiri muchadya zvinomerazve kwazviri; asi negore rechitatu munofanira kudzvara, nokukohwa, nokusima minda yemizambiringa, mudye michero yayo.

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

³¹Zvino vakasara vakapukunyuka veimba yaJudha, vachaitazve midzi pasi, nokubereka michero kumusoro.

³²for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that escape: the zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall do this.

³²nekuti vakasara vachabuda Jerusaremu, navakapukunyuka pagomo reZiyoni; kushingaira kwaJehovha kuchazviita.

³³Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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.

³³Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha pamusoro pamambo weAsiria, Haangapindi muguta rino, kana kuposhera museve imomo, kana kusvika pamberi paro nenhovo, kana kututira gomo revhu kwariri.

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

³⁴Zvanzi naJehovha, Nenzira yaakauya nayo, achadzokerazve nayo; haangapindi muguta rino.

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

³⁵nekuti ndichadzivirira guta rino, ndiriponese nokuda kwangu ini, uye nokuda komuranda wangu Dhavhidhi.

³⁶And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.

³⁶Zvino mutumwa waJehovha akabuda, akauraya vanhu vane zviuru zvine zana namakumi masere nezvishanu pamisasa yavaAsiria; zvino vanhu vakati vachimuka mangwanani, vakawana zvava zvitunha zvose.

³⁷And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and abode at Nineveh.

³⁷Naizvozvo Saniheribhi mambo weAsiria akabva, akaenda, akadzokera kwakare, akandogara Ninivhe.

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 Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

³⁸Zvino akati achinamata mumba maNisiroki, mwari wake, Adhiramereki naSharezeri vanakomana vake, vakamuuraya nomunondo, ivo vakatizira kunyika yeArarati. Esarihadhoni akamutevera paushe.