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

¹It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh.

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

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.

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

³They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.

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 Yahweh your God will hear all 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.’”

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.

⁶Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall 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.

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 will hear news, and will return to his own land. 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 had 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:

⁹When he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to 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 you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, “Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will 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, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you 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.

¹⁴Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, and spread it before Yahweh.

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.

¹⁵Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sit above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have 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 your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent to defy the living God.

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

¹⁷Truly, Yahweh, 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, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are 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 says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard you.

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 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.

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 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.

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 your messengers you have 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; and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees; 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 dug 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.

²⁵Haven’t you 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 yours 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 like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

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

²⁷But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your 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 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.”

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.

²⁹“‘This shall be the sign to you: You shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.

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

³⁰The remnant that has 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 a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. The zeal of Yahweh will 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.

³²“Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He shall not come to 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 to this city,’ says Yahweh.

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

³⁴‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my 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.

³⁵It happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. 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 lived 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.

³⁷It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.