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

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 Jehovah.

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

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.

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 said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength 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.

⁴It may be Jehovah thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

⁵A tak prišli služobníci kráľa Ezechiáša k Izaiášovi.

⁵So the servants of king Hezekiah came to 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 said unto 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.

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.

⁷Behold, I will put a spirit in 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.

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

⁸So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed 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 when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee, he sent messengers again 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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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, of 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 received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of Jehovah, and spread 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 prayed before Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, that sittest [above] the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and 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 thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open thine eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, wherewith he hath sent him to defy the living God.

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

¹⁷Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

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

¹⁸and 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.

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

¹⁹Now therefore, O Jehovah our God, save thou us, I beseech thee, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou Jehovah art God 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.

²⁰Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard [thee].

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 hath spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

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 defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] 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 thy messengers thou hast defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.

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

²⁴I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

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 how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

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.

²⁶Therefore 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 grain blasted before it is grown up.

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

²⁷But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against 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 thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy 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.

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 shall be the sign unto thee: Ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and in 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.

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

³⁰And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

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

³¹For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that shall escape: the zeal of Jehovah shall perform 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 saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

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

³³By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah.

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

³⁴For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

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 came to pass that night, that the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

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

³⁶So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at 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 came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.