¹Zvino negore regumi namana ramambo Hezekia, Saniheribhi mambo weAsiria, akandorwa namaguta ose aJudha akakombwa namasvingo, akaakunda.

¹And it cometh to pass, in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, come up hath Sennacherib king of Asshur against all the fenced cities of Judah, and seizeth them.

²Zvino mambo weAsiria akatuma mukuru wavatariri abve Rakishi aende Jerusaremu kuna mambo Hezekia nehondo huru. Akamira pamugero wedziva rokumusoro pamugwagwa unoenda kumunda womusuki.

²And the king of Asshur sendeth Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, unto the king Hezekiah, with a heavy force, and he standeth by the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller`s field,

³Ipapo Eriakimu mwanakomana waHirikia, waichengeta imba yamambo, naShebhina munyori naJoa mwanakomana waAsafi, gurukota guru, vakabudira kwaari.

³and go forth unto him doth Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer.

⁴Mukuru wavatariri akati kwavari, Zvino imwi muti kuna Hezekia, Zvanzi namambo mukuru, mambo weAsiria, kuvimba uku kwaunovimba nako ndokwei?

⁴And Rabshakeh saith unto them, `Say ye, I pray you, unto Hezekiah, `Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur, What [is] this confidence in which thou hast confided?

⁵Ini ndinoti, mano ako nesimba rokurwa naro mashoko zvawo asina maturo; zvino unovimba naniko, zvawandimukira ini?

⁵I have said: Only, a word of the lips! counsel and might [are] for battle: now, on whom hast thou trusted, that thou hast rebelled against me?

⁶Tarira, unovimba nomudonzvo worutsanga urwu rwakavhunika, Egipita, runoti kana munhu akasendama kwaruri, ruchapinda muruoko rwake, rukamubaya; ndizvo zvakaita Farao mambo weEgipita kuna vose vanovimba naye.

⁶`Lo, thou hast trusted on the staff of this broken reed — on Egypt — which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his hand, and pierced it — so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.

⁷Asi kana ukati kwandiri, Tinovimba naJehovha Mwari wedu, ko haazi iye akabvisirwa matunhu akakwirira namaaritari ake naHezekia, akati kuna Judha neJerusaremu, Munofanira kunamata pamberi pearitari iri here?

⁷`And dost thou say unto me, Unto Jehovah our God we have trusted? is it not He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath turned aside, and saith to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar ye do bow yourselves?

⁸Naizvozvo zvino chipikiranai henyu natenzi wangu, mambo weAsiria, ndikupe mabhiza ane zviuru zviviri, kana iwe ukagona kuisa vatasvi pamusoro pawo.

⁸`And now, negotiate, I pray thee, with my lord the king of Asshur, and I give to thee two thousand horses, if thou art able to put for thee riders on them.

⁹Ungagona seiko kukunda mukuru mumwe kuvaduku vavaranda vatenzi wangu? Zvino wovimba neEgipita kuti upiwe ngoro namabhiza navo?

⁹And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, and dost trust for thee on Egypt, for chariot and for horsemen?

¹⁰Ini ndauya kuzorwa nenyika ino kuti ndiiparadze ndisina Jehovha kanhi? Ndiye Jehovha akati kwandiri, Enda undorwa nenyika iyo, uiparadze.

¹⁰And now, without Jehovah have I come up against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up unto this land, and thou hast destroyed it.`

¹¹Ipapo Eriakimu, mwanakomana waHirikia, naShebhina, naJoa vakati kumukuru wavatariri, Tinokumbira kuti mutaure henyu navaranda venyu norurimi rwechiAramia, nekuti tinochinzwisisa; murege henyu kutaura nesu norurimi rwavaJudha, vanhu vose vari parusvingo vazvinzwe.

¹¹And Eliakim saith — and Shebna and Joah — unto Rabshakeh, `Speak, we pray thee, unto thy servants [in] Aramaean, for we are understanding; and do not speak unto us [in] Jewish, in the ears of the people who [are] on the wall.`

¹²Asi mukuru wavatariri akati kwaari, Tenzi wangu akandituma kuna tenzi wako nokwauri here, kuti nditaure mashoko awa? Haana kundituma here kuvanhu vagere pamusoro porusvingo, kuti vadye tsvina yavo nemvura yavo pamwechete nemi?

¹²And Rabshakeh saith, `Unto thy lord, and unto thee, hath my lord sent me to speak these words? is it not for the men — those sitting on the wall to eat their own dung and to drink their own water with you?`

¹³Ipapo mukuru wavatariri akamira, akadanidzira nenzwi guru norurimi rwavaJudha, akataura akati, Inzwai mashoko amambo mukuru, iye mambo weAsiria.

¹³And Rabshakeh standeth and calleth with a great voice [in] Jewish, and saith, `Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Asshur:

¹⁴Zvanzi namambo Hezekia, Ngaarege kukunyengerai; nekuti haangagoni kukurwirai;

¹⁴Thus said the king, Let not Hezekiah lift you up, for he is not able to deliver you;

¹⁵Hezekia ngaarege kukuvimbisai naJehovha, achiti, Jehovha achatirwira zvirokwazvo; guta iri haringapiwi mumaoko amambo weAsiria.

¹⁵and let not Hezekiah make you trust unto Jehovah, saying, Jehovah doth certainly deliver us, this city is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.

¹⁶Musateerera Hezekia, nekuti zvanzi namambo weAsiria, Yananai neni, mubudire kwandiri; mudye mumwe nomumwe muwonde wake, mumwe nomumwe mvura yetsime rake;

¹⁶`Do not hearken unto Hezekiah, for thus said the king of Asshur, Make ye with me a blessing, and come out unto me, and eat ye each of his vine, and each of his fig-tree, and drink ye each the waters of his own well,

¹⁷kusvikira ini ndauya ndikutorei, ndikuisei kunyika yakafanana neyenyu, nyika ine zviyo newaini, nyika ine chingwa neminda yemizambiringa.

¹⁷till my coming in, and I have taken you unto a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards;

¹⁸Chenjerai kuti Hezekia arege kukugombedzerai, achiti, Jehovha achatirwira. Ko mumwe wavamwari vamarudzi akagona kurwira nyika yake paruoko rwamambo weAsiria here?

¹⁸lest Hezekiah doth persuade you, saying, Jehovah doth deliver us. `Have the gods of the nations delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?

¹⁹Vamwari veHamati neAripadhi varipi? Vamwari veSefarivhaimi varipi? Vakarwira Samaria paruoko rwangu here?

¹⁹Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where the gods of Sepharvaim, that they have delivered Samaria out of my hand?

²⁰Ndavapi pakati pavamwari vose venyika idzi vakarwira nyika yavo paruoko rwangu, zvamunoti Jehovha acharwira Jerusaremu paruoko rwangu?

²⁰Who among all the gods of these lands [are] they who have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah doth deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?`

²¹Asi vakaramba vanyerere, havana kumupindura shoko rimwe, nekuti murayiro wamambo wakange uchiti, Regai kumupindura.

²¹And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.`

²²Zvino Eriakimu mwanakomana waHirikia, aichengeta imba, naShebhina munyori, naJoa mwanakomana waAsafi, gurukota guru, vakaenda kuna Hezekia, vakabvarura nguvo dzavo, vakamuudza mashoko omukuru wavatariri.

²²And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house, cometh in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer, unto Hezekiah with rent garments, and they declare to him the words of Rabshakeh.