¹A stalo sa, keď to počul kráľ Ezechiáš, že roztrhnul svoje rúcho a oblečúc sa smútočnou vrecovinou, vošiel do domu Hospodinovho.

¹And it cometh to pass, at king Hezekiah`s hearing, that he rendeth his garments, and covereth himself with sackcloth, and entereth the house of Jehovah,

²A poslal Elijakima, ktorý bol nad domom, a Šebnu, pisára, a starších z kňazov, odiatych vrecovinou, k prorokovi Izaiášovi, synovi Ámosovmu,

²and sendeth Eliakim, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz,

³a riekli mu: Takto hovorí Ezechiáš: Tento deň je dňom súženia, karhania a posmechu; lebo synovia prišli až k prielomu, ale niet sily porodiť.

³and they say unto him, `Thus said Hezekiah — A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising [is] this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bring forth.

⁴Možno, že počuje Hospodin, tvoj Bôh, všetky slová Rabsákeho, ktorého poslal assýrsky kráľ, jeho pán, aby sa rúhal živému Bohu, a pokára ho za slová, ktoré počul Hospodin, tvoj Bôh, a preto povznes modlitbu za ostatok, ktorý sa ešte nachádza.

⁴`It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear all the words of the chief of the butlers with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.`

⁵A tak prišli služobníci kráľa Ezechiáša k Izaiášovi.

⁵And the servants of king Hezekiah come in unto Isaiah,

⁶A Izaiáš im povedal: Takto poviete svojmu pánovi: Takto hovorí Hospodin: Neboj sa slov, ktoré si počul, ktorými obrážali sluhovia assýrskeho kráľa mňa.

⁶and Isaiah saith to them, `Thus do ye say unto your lord: Thus said Jehovah, Be not afraid because of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me.

⁷Hľa, ja dám do neho ducha, aby počul zvesť a navrátil sa do svojej zeme, a spôsobím to, aby padnul od meča vo svojej zemi.

⁷Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he hath heard a report, and hath turned back to his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.`

⁸A Rabsáke sa navrátil a našiel assýrskeho kráľa bojovať proti Libne, lebo počul, že odišiel od Lachiša.

⁸And the chief of the butlers turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he hath heard that he hath journeyed from Lachish.

⁹A keď počul o Tirhákovi, ethiopskom kráľovi, že hovorili: Hľa, vyšiel, aby bojoval s tebou! zase poslal poslov k Ezechiášovi s týmito slovami:

⁹And he heareth concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, `Lo, he hath come out to fight with thee;` and he turneth and sendeth messengers unto Hezekiah, saying,

¹⁰Takto poviete Ezechiášovi, judskému kráľovi: Nech ťa neklame tvoj Bôh, na ktorého sa nadeješ, hovoriac: Nebude vydaný Jeruzalem do ruky assýrskeho kráľa!

¹⁰`Thus do ye speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God lift thee up in whom thou art trusting, saying, Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.

¹¹Lebo hľa, ty si počul o tom, čo urobili assýrski kráľovia všetkým zemiam, ako ich docela zahubili, a ty by si mal byť vytrhnutý?

¹¹Lo, thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands — to devote them; and thou art delivered!

¹²Či ich azda vytrhli bohovia národov, ktoré zkazili moji otcovia, Gozana a Chárana, Recefa a synov Édena, ktorí boli v Telassáre?

¹²did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed — Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who [are] in Thelassar?

¹³Kde je kráľ Chamatu a kráľ Arpádu a kráľ mesta Sefarvajima, Hény a Ivvy?

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

¹⁴Vtedy vzal Ezechiáš list z ruky poslov a prečítal ho, a odíduc hore do domu Hospodinovho, rozvinul ho Ezechiáš pred Hospodinom.

¹⁴And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and readeth them, and goeth up to the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah.

¹⁵A Ezechiáš sa modlil pred Hospodinom a povedal: Hospodine, Bože Izraelov, ktorý tróniš nad cherubínmi, ty si sám jediný Bôh, a to všetkých kráľovstiev zeme, ty si učinil nebesia i zem.

¹⁵And Hezekiah prayeth before Jehovah, and saith, `O Jehovah, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubs, Thou [art] God Himself — Thyself alone — to all the kingdoms of the earth: Thou hast made the heavens and the earth.

¹⁶Nakloň, Hospodine, svoje ucho a počuj! Otvor, Hospodine, svoje oči a vidz a počuj slová Senacheribove, ktorý ho poslal, aby sa rúhal živému Bohu.

¹⁶Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes, and see; and hear Thou the words of Sennacherib with which he hath sent him to reproach the living God.

¹⁷Je to skutočná pravda, Hospodine, spustošili assýrski kráľovia tie národy aj ich zeme

¹⁷`Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste the nations, and their land,

¹⁸a pohádzali ich bohov do ohňa, lebo to neboli Bohovia, ale dielo rúk človeka, drevo a kameň, a zahubili ich.

¹⁸and have put their gods into fire, for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone, and destroy them.

¹⁹A tak teraz, Hospodine, náš Bože, prosíme, zachráň nás z jeho ruky, aby poznaly všetky kráľovstvá zeme, že ty, Hospodine, si sám jediný Bôh.

¹⁹And now, O Jehovah our God, save us, we pray Thee, out of his hand, and know do all kingdoms of the earth that Thou [art] Jehovah God — Thyself alone.`

²⁰Vtedy poslal Izaiáš, syn Ámosov, k Ezechiášovi a riekol: Takto hovorí Hospodin, Bôh Izraelov: To, za čo si sa mi modlil ohľadne Senacheriba, assýrskeho kráľa, som počul.

²⁰And Isaiah son of Amoz sendeth unto Hezekiah, saying, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed unto Me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur I have heard:

²¹Toto je slovo, ktoré hovorí Hospodin o ňom: Opovrhuje tebou a posmieva sa ti panna dcéry Siona, posmešne kýva za tebou hlavou, dcéra Jeruzalema!

²¹this [is] the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: `Trampled on thee — laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion Behind thee shaken the head — Hath the daughter of Jerusalem?

²²Komu si sa ty rúhal a koho si obrážal? Proti komu si povýšil hlas? A pozdvihol si svoje oči na výsosť proti Svätému Izraelovmu!

²²Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up a voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes — Against the Holy One of Israel!

²³Skrze svojich poslov si sa rúhal Pánovi a povedal si: S množstvom svojich vozov som ja vyšiel na vysokosť vrchov, na najvyššie vrchole Libanona, a pozotínam jeho vysoké cedry i jeho výborné jedle spanilé a vojdem do nocľažišťa na jeho konci, do lesa, do jeho ovocnej zahrady.

²³By the hand of thy messengers Thou hast reproached the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of mountains — The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the lodging of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.

²⁴Ja som vykopal a pil som cudzie vody a vysuším spodkom svojich nôh všetky toky Egypta.-

²⁴I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

²⁵Či si ty nepočul, že som to už dávno učinil, že som utvoril od pradávna? A teraz som to priviedol ta, že si nato, aby si pustošil ohradené mestá v hromady rumov.

²⁵Hast thou not heard from afar, it I made, From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becometh a desolation, Ruinous heaps [are] fenced cities,

²⁶A ich obyvatelia nemajúc sily odolať desia a hanbia sa, sú jako poľná bylina a jako zeleň sviežej trávy, jako tráva na strechách, siatina, zkazená hrdzou, prv ako by bola vyrástla do stebla.

²⁶And their inhabitants [are] feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up, They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn — before it hath risen up!

²⁷Ale ja znám tvoje sedenie, tvoje vychádzanie i tvoje vchádzanie i tvoje zúrenie proti mne.

²⁷And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thine anger towards Me;

²⁸Pretože tvoje zúrenie proti mne a tvoja spupná ubezpečenosť vystúpila hore do mojich uší, dám svoju obrúčku do tvojich nozdier a svoje zubadlo do tvojich rtov a odvediem ťa zpät cestou, ktorou si prišiel.

²⁸Because of thine anger towards Me, And thy noise — it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And have caused thee to turn back, In the way in which thou camest.

²⁹A toto ti bude, Ezechiášu, znamením: tohoto roku máte jesť to, čo samo narastie, i druhého roku to, čo sa samo urodí, a tretieho roku sejte a žnite a saďte vinice a jedzte ich ovocie.

²⁹And this to thee [is] the sign, Food of the year [is] the spontaneous growth, And in the second year the self-produced, And in the third year sow ye, and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.

³⁰A ostatok domu Júdovho, ktorý unikne, vpustí zase korene dolu a vydá ovocie hore.

³⁰And it hath continued — The escaped of the house of Judah That hath been left — to take root beneath, And hath made fruit upward.

³¹Lebo z Jeruzalema vyjde ostatok a to, čo unikne záhube, z vrchu Siona. Revnivosť Hospodina Zástupov to učiní.

³¹For from Jerusalem goeth out a remnant, And an escape from mount Zion; The zeal of Jehovah [of Hosts] doth this.

³²Preto takto hovorí Hospodin o assýrskom kráľovi: Nevojde do tohoto mesta ani ta nevostrelí strely ani nepojde proti nemu štítom ani nenasype proti nemu násypu.

³²Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Concerning the king of Asshur: He doth not come in unto this city, Nor doth he shoot there an arrow, Nor doth he come before it with shield. Nor doth he pour out against it a mount.

³³Tou istou cestou, ktorou prišiel, sa i navráti; ale do tohoto mesta nevojde, hovorí Hospodin.

³³In the way that he cometh in — In it he turneth back, And unto this city he doth not come in, The affirmation of Jehovah —

³⁴Lebo budem brániť toto mesto a zastávať ho, aby som ho zachránil pre seba a pre Dávida, svojho služobníka.

³⁴And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.`

³⁵A stalo sa tej istej noci, že vyšiel anjel Hospodinov a pobil v assýrskom tábore sto osemdesiatpäť tisíc. A keď vstali skoro ráno, videli, že hľa, všetci boli mŕtvolami.

³⁵And it cometh to pass, in that night, that a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred eighty and five thousand, and they rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them [are] dead corpses.

³⁶Preto sa pohol a odišiel. A tak sa navrátil Senacherib, assýrsky kráľ, a býval a sedel v Ninivem.

³⁶And Sennacherib king of Asshur journeyeth, and goeth, and turneth back, and dwelleth in Nineveh;

³⁷A stalo sa, keď sa klaňal v dome Nizrocha, svojho boha, že Adrammelech a Šarecer, jeho synovia, ho zabili mečom a sami utiekli do zeme Araráta. A kraľoval Esar-chaddon, jeho syn, miesto neho.

³⁷and it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adramelech and Sharezar [his sons] have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.