¹Zvino mambo Hezekia akati achizvinzwa, akabvarura nguvo dzake, akafuka makudza, akapinda mumba maJehovha.

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

²Akatuma Eriakimu aichengeta imba, naShebhina munyori, navakuru vavapristi, vakafuka makudza, kumuporofita Isaya mwanakomana waAmozi.

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

³Vakati kwaari, Zvanzi naHezekia, Nhasi izuva rokutambudzika, nerokutukwa, nerokuzvidzwa; nekuti vana vakasvika pakuzvarwa, asi hakuna simba rokuzvara naro.

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 bear.

⁴Zvimwe Mwari wenyu achanzwa mashoko ose omukuru wavatariri, akatumwa namambo weAsiria tenzi wake, kuzvidza Mwari mupenyu, agovatuka pamusoro pamashoko aakanzwa iye Jehovha Mwari wenyu; naizvozvo nyengetererai vakasara.

⁴`It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear the words of Rabshakeh 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.`

⁵Naizvozvo varanda vamambo Hezekia vakasvika kuna Isaya.

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

⁶Isaya akati kwavari, Udzai tenzi wenyu, muti, zvanzi naJehovha, Usatya hako mashoko awanzwa, andakamhurwa nawo navaranda vamambo weAsiria.

⁶and Isaiah saith unto 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.

⁷Tarira, ndichaisa mweya wokutya mukati make, achanzwa guhu, ndokudzokera kunyika yake; ndichamuurayisa nomunondo munyika yake.

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

⁸Naizvozvo mukuru wavatariri akadzoka, akawana mambo weAsiria achirwa neRibhina, nekuti akanga anzwa kuti wabva Rakishi.

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

⁹Zvino akanzwa pamusoro paTirihaka mambo weltiopia, zvichinzi, Auya kuzorwa newe. Zvino akati azvinzwa, akatuma nhume kuna Hezekia, achiti,

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

¹⁰Endai mundoudza Hezekia mambo waJudha, muti, Mwari wako, waunovimba naye, ngaarege kukunyengera, achiti, Jerusaremu haringapiwi muruoko rwamambo weAsiria.

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.

¹¹Tarira, wakanzwa zvakaitirwa nyika dzose namadzimambo eAsiria, kuti vakadziparadza chose; zvino iwe ucharwirwa here?

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

¹²Ko vamwari vamamwe marudzi vakavarwira here, iwo akaparadzwa namadzibaba angu, vanoti, Gozani, naHarani, naRezefi, navana vaEdheni, vaiva paTerasari?

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 Telassar?

¹³Mambo weHamati ariko, namambo weAripadhi, namambo weguta reSafarivhaimi, neHena, neIvha?

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

¹⁴Hezekia akagamuchira tsamba pamaoko enhume, akairava; Hezekia akakwira kumba kwaJehovha, akaipetenura pamberi paJehovha.

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

¹⁵Ipapo Hezekia akanyengetera kuna Jehovha, achiti,

¹⁵And Hezekiah prayeth unto Jehovah, saying,

¹⁶Haiwa Jehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, iye ugere pamusoro pamakerubhimi! Ndimi Mwari, imwi moga, woushe hwose bwenyika, ndimi makaita kudenga napasi.

¹⁶`Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubs, Thou [art] God Himself — Thyself alone — to all kingdoms of the earth, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth.

¹⁷Rerekerai nzeve yenyu, Jehovha, munzwe; svinudzai meso enyu, Jehovha, muone; inzwai mashoko ose aSaniheribhi, akatuma nhume kuzozvidza Mwari mupenyu.

¹⁷Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes and see; and hear Thou all the words of Sennacherib that he hath sent to reproach the living God.

¹⁸Zvirokwazvo, Jehovha, madzimambo eAsiria akaparadza marudzi ose nenyika dzawo,

¹⁸`Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste all the lands and their land,

¹⁹akakandira vamwari vavo mumoto; nekuti vakanga vasi vamwari, asi rakanga riri basa ramaoko avanhu, ari matanda namabwe; naizvozvo akavaparadza.

¹⁹so as to put their gods into fire — for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone — and they destroy them.

²⁰Naizvozvo zvino, Jehovha, Mwari wedu, tiponesei paruoko rwake, kuti ushe hwose bwenyika huzive kuti ndimi Jehovha, iyemi moga.

²⁰And now, Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, and all kingdoms of the earth do know that Thou [art] Jehovah, Thyself alone.`

²¹Ipapo Isaya mwanakomana waAmozi, akatuma shoko kuna Hezekia, akati, Zvanzi naJehovha Mwari waIsiraeri, Zvawanyengetera kwandiri pamusoro paSaniheribhi mambo weAsiria,

²¹And 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 —

²²heri shoko rakataurwa naJehovha, pamusoro pake, Mhandara, mukunda weZiyoni, wakakushora nokukuseka; mukunda weJerusaremu wakakudzungudzira musoro wake.

²²this [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.

²³Ndianiko wawakatuka nokuzvidza? Wakazvikudza kuna aniko nenzwi rako, meso ako akatarira aniko kudenga? NdiMutsvene waIsiraeri!

²³Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel.

²⁴Watuka Jehovha navaranda vako, ukati, Ndakwira kumakomo marefu nengoro dzangu zhinji, kunzvimbo dzomukati dzeRebhanoni; ndichatema misidhari mirefu iripo, nemisiperesi yakatsaurwa iripo, ndichipa kusvikira kumusoro-soro kwaro, kudondo raro rinobereka zvakanaka;

²⁴By the hand of thy servants Thou hast reviled the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of hills, The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the high place of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.

²⁵ndakachera ndikamwa mvura, ndichapwisa nzizi dzose dzeEgipita nokutsika netsoka dzangu.

²⁵I — I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

²⁶Hauna kunzwa here kuti ndakazviita kare, kuti ndakazvirayira nenguva dzokutanga-tanga? Zvino ndakarayira zviitike, kuti iwe uve muparadzi wamaguta akakombwa namasvingo, ave matongo.

²⁶Hast thou not heard from afar? — it I did, From days of old — that I formed it. Now, I have brought it in, And it is to make desolate, Ruinous heaps — fenced cities,

²⁷Naizvizvo vakanga vageremo vakanga vane simba duku, vakavhundutswa nokunyadziswa; vakafanana nouswa bwebundo, nomuriwo mutema, nouswa huri pamusoro peimba, nomunda wezviyo zvigere kukura.

²⁷And 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.

²⁸Asi ndinoziva kugara kwako pasi, nokubuda kwako, nokupinda kwako, uye hasha dzako kwandiri.

²⁸And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thy anger towards Me.

²⁹Nokuda kwehasha dzako kwandiri, uye nekuti ndakanzwa, kuzvikudza kwako, ndichaisa rwauro rwangu mumhino dzako, netomu rangu mumiromo yako, ndikudzosere nenzira yawakauya nayo.

²⁹Because of thy 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 I have caused thee to turn back In the way in which thou camest.

³⁰Ichi ndicho chichava chiratidzo kwauri: nhaka muchadya zvinongomera zvoga, negore rechipiri muchadya zvinomerazve kwazviri; asi negore rechitatu munofanira kudzvara, nokukohwa, nokusima minda yemizambiringa, mudye michero yayo.

³⁰— And this to thee [is] the sign, Food of the year [is] self-sown grain, And in the second year the spontaneous growth, And in the third year, sow ye and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

³¹Zvino vakasara vakapukunyuka veimba yaJudha, vachaitazve midzi pasi, nokubereka michero kumusoro.

³¹And it hath continued — the escaped Of the house of Judah that hath been left — To take root beneath, And it hath made fruit upward.

³²nekuti vakasara vachabuda Jerusaremu, navakapukunyuka pagomo reZiyoni; kushingaira kwaJehovha kuchazviita.

³²For from Jerusalem goeth forth a remnant, And an escape from mount Zion, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.

³³Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha pamusoro pamambo weAsiria, Haangapindi muguta rino, kana kuposhera museve imomo, kana kusvika pamberi paro nenhovo, kana kututira gomo revhu kwariri.

³³Therefore, 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.

³⁴Zvanzi naJehovha, Nenzira yaakauya nayo, achadzokerazve nayo; haangapindi muguta rino.

³⁴In the way that he came, in it he turneth back, And unto this city he doth not come in, An affirmation of Jehovah,

³⁵nekuti ndichadzivirira guta rino, ndiriponese nokuda kwangu ini, uye nokuda komuranda wangu Dhavhidhi.

³⁵And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.`

³⁶Zvino mutumwa waJehovha akabuda, akauraya vanhu vane zviuru zvine zana namakumi masere nezvishanu pamisasa yavaAsiria; zvino vanhu vakati vachimuka mangwanani, vakawana zvava zvitunha zvose.

³⁶And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and [men] rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them [are] dead corpses.

³⁷Naizvozvo Saniheribhi mambo weAsiria akabva, akaenda, akadzokera kwakare, akandogara Ninivhe.

³⁷And journey, and go, and turn back doth Sennacherib king of Asshur, and dwelleth in Nineveh.

³⁸Zvino akati achinamata mumba maNisiroki, mwari wake, Adhiramereki naSharezeri vanakomana vake, vakamuuraya nomunondo, ivo vakatizira kunyika yeArarati. Esarihadhoni akamutevera paushe.

³⁸And it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer 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.