¹In ko je to slišal kralj Ezekija, si je raztrgal oblačila in pokril se je z raševino in šel v hišo GOSPODOVO.

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,

²In pošlje Eljakima, načelnika dvorca, in Sebna, pisarja, ter starejšine duhovnikov, pokrite z raševino, k proroku Izaiju, sinu Amozovemu.

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,

³In ti mu reko: Tako pravi Ezekija: Dan stiske in strahovanja in zasramovanja je ta dan; kajti otroci so prišli do poroda, a moči ni za porod.

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.

⁴Morda bo slišal GOSPOD, Bog tvoj, vse besede Rabsakove, s katerimi ga je poslal kralj asirski, gospod njegov, sramotit Boga živega, in bo kaznoval besede, ki jih je slišal GOSPOD, Bog tvoj. Zato povzdigni molitev za ostanke, kar jih še je.

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.`

⁵Ko so torej prišli hlapci Ezekija kralja k Izaiju,

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

⁶jim reče Izaija: Tako povejte gospodu svojemu: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Ne boj se zaradi tistih besed, ki si jih slišal, ki so me ž njimi preklinjali hlapci kralja asirskega!

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.

⁷Glej, jaz mu vdahnem duha, da bo slišal glas in se vrnil v deželo svojo, in storim, da pade od meča v deželi svoji.

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.`

⁸In ko se vrne Rabsak, najde kralja asirskega v boju zoper Libno; slišal je bil namreč, da se je umaknil od Lahisa.

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.

⁹V tem zasliši, da pravijo o Tirhaku, kralju v Etiopiji: Glej, prišel se je vojskovat zoper tebe! In pošlje zopet sporočnikov k Ezekiju z ukazom:

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,

¹⁰Tako govorite Ezekiju, kralju Judovemu, in recite: Naj te ne vara Bog tvoj, ki staviš nanj upanje, govoreč: Jeruzalem ne bo dan v roko kralja asirskega.

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.

¹¹Glej, sam si slišal, kaj so storili kralji asirski vsem drugim deželam, pokončavši jih docela, in ti bi se otel?

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

¹²Ali so bogovi narodov oteli tiste, ki so jih pogubili očetje moji, Gozana in Harana in Rezefa in sinove Edena, ki so bili v Telasarju?

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?

¹³Kje je kralj hamatski in kralj arpadski in kralj mesta Sefarvaima in Hene in Ive?

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

¹⁴In ko Ezekija prejme pismo iz roke sporočnikov in ga prebere, gre gori v hišo GOSPODOVO in ga razgrne pred GOSPODOM.

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.

¹⁵In molil je Ezekija pred GOSPODOM, govoreč: O GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov, ki stoluješ nad kerubi, ti si Bog, ti edini vsem kraljestvom na zemlji, ti si ustvaril nebesa in zemljo!

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.

¹⁶Nagni uho svoje, GOSPOD, in poslušaj, odpri oči svoje, GOSPOD, in poglej! In poslušaj besede Senaheriba, s katerimi ga je poslal sramotit Boga živega!

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.

¹⁷Res je, GOSPOD, opustošili so kralji asirski one narode in njih dežele

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

¹⁸in so pometali njih bogove v ogenj, zakaj niso bili bogovi, ampak rok človeških delo, les in kamen; zato so jih pogubili.

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.

¹⁹Sedaj torej, GOSPOD, Bog naš, reši nas, prosim, iz roke njegove, da naj spoznajo vsa kraljestva na zemlji, da si ti GOSPOD Bog, ti edini.

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.`

²⁰Tedaj pošlje Izaija, sin Amozov, k Ezekiju in sporoči: Tako pravi GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov: Kar si molil k meni spričo Senaheriba, kralja asirskega, sem slišal.

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:

²¹To je beseda, ki jo je govoril GOSPOD o njem: Zaničuje te, zasmehuje te devica, hči sionska, za teboj maje glavo hči jeruzalemska.

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?

²²Koga si sramotil in preklinjal? in zoper koga si zagnal svoj glas in ošabno povzdignil svoje oči? Zoper Svetnika Izraelovega!

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!

²³Po poslancih svojih si sramotil GOSPODA, ko si govoril: Z množico svojih voz sem prišel na vrh gorá, do najvišje strani Libanona; in posekam visoke cedre njegove in najboljše ciprese njegove; vstopim tudi v najdaljnejše prenočišče njegovo, v gaj na vrtu njegovem.

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.

²⁴Jaz sem kopal in izpil tuje vodnjake, in s stopalom nog svojih hočem posušiti vse egiptovske reke.

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

²⁵A nisi li slišal, da sem jaz to napravljal od zdavnaj in snoval od starih časov? Sedaj sem storil, da je prišlo to, da rušiš utrjena mesta v kupe razvalin.

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,

²⁶Zato so bili njih prebivalci slabotnih rok, prestrašeni in zbegani; bili so kakor trava na polju in kakor zelenjava mehka, kakor trava na strehah in kakor žito posmojeno, preden gre v latje.

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!

²⁷In sejo tvojo in odhod in prihod tvoj poznam, tudi divjanje tvoje zoper mene.

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

²⁸Ker divjanje tvoje zoper mene in lahkoživstvo tvoje je prišlo do mojih ušes, zato denem svoj obroček v tvoj nos in uzdo svojo med ustnice tvoje, in povedem te nazaj po tistem potu, po katerem si prišel. –

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.

²⁹In to ti bodi v znamenje: to leto boste jedli, kar samo zraste, drugo leto pa, kar po tem priraste, v tretjem letu sejte in ženjite in sadite vinograde ter jejte njih sad.

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.

³⁰In kar se od hiše Judove ohrani, kar preostane, bo zopet poganjalo korenine spodaj in rodilo sad zgoraj.

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

³¹Zakaj iz Jeruzalema izide ostanek in s Sionske gore tisti, ki se bodo rešili; gorečnost GOSPODA nad vojskami stori to.

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

³²Zatorej pravi tako GOSPOD zastran kralja asirskega: Ne pride v to mesto in pšice ne ustreli sem, tudi ščita mu ne bo stavil nasproti, ne nanašal nasipov zoper njega.

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.

³³Po istem potu, po katerem je prišel, se vrne, v to mesto pa ne pride, govori GOSPOD.

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 —

³⁴Zakaj branil bom to mesto, da ga rešim, zaradi sebe in zaradi Davida, hlapca svojega.

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

³⁵In zgodi se to noč, da izide angel GOSPODOV ter jih pobije v asirskem ostrogu sto petinosemdeset tisoč; in ko so vstali zjutraj, glej, bili so vsi tisti trupla mrtvih.

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.

³⁶Senaherib torej, kralj asirski, se vzdigne in odide in se vrne in ostane v Ninivah.Tam je bilo, ko se je klanjal v hiši Nisroka, boga svojega, da ga Adramelek in Sarezer, sina njegova, udarita z mečem in pobegneta v deželo Araratsko. In kraljeval je sin njegov Esar-hadon namesto njega.

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

³⁷Tam je bilo, ko se je klanjal v hiši Nisroka, boga svojega, da ga Adramelek in Sarezer, sina njegova, udarita z mečem in pobegneta v deželo Araratsko. In kraljeval je sin njegov Esar-hadon namesto njega.

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.