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

¹Huan, kumpipa Hezekiain huai a jakin hichi ahi a, a puansilhte a botkeka, saiip puan a silha, TOUPA inah a lutta hi.

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.

²Huan, in sung lam heutu Eliakim leh laigelhmi Sebna leh, siampu upate saiip puan silhin Amoz tapa jawlnei Isai kiangah a sawl hi.

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.

³Huan, amau a kiangah, Hezekiain hichiin a chi, Tuni mangbatna leh salhna leh minsiatna ni ahi: naute lah a pian uh ahunta ngala, piangsak dingin lah hatna a om nawnta ngal kei a.

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.’”

⁴A pu Assuria kumpipan Pathian hing gense dia a sawl Rabsake thu gen tengteng, TOUPA na Pathianin a za dinga, a thu gen, TOUPA na Pathianin a thu a jak a na sal kha mai ding, huaijiakin a omlai mite thum sak in, a chi hi a chi ua.

⁵So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

⁵Huchiin kumpipa Hezekia mite bel Isai kiangah a hoh uh.

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.

⁶Huan, Isaiin a kiang uah, Na pu kiangah hichiin genin, TOUPAN hichiin a chi, Na jak, Assuria kumpipa miten hon gensiatnate uh kihta ken.

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.”’”

⁷Ngaiin, a sungah kha ka omsak dinga, thuthang a za dinga, amah gamah a pai nawn ding; huchiin amah gam mahmah ah namsau puksakin ka om sak ding, a chi hi, chiin, a chi a.

⁸So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.

⁸Huchiin Rabsake bel a kik nawna, Assuria kumpipan Libna khua anasual lai vamu a; Lakis khua akipan a pawt chih a jaksa him ahi.

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,

⁹Huan, Ngaiin, Nang honsual dingin a pawtta, chi-a Tirhak Ethiopia gam kumpipa tungtang thu mi gen a najakin Hezekia kiangah mite a sawla.

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.

¹⁰Hichiin Juda kumpipa Hezekia kiangah na gen ding uh, Na Pathian na muanin Jerusalem khua Assuria kumpipa khutah piak ahi kei ding, chiin honkhem kei heh.

¹¹Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered?

¹¹Ngaiin, Assuria kumpipaten gamtengteng hihse veka a tunga thil hih uh na jaa; nang humbit na hi tuan sin ahia?

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?

¹²Nam chih pathianten ka pi leh puten a hihman te uh a humbit ua hia? Gozan te, Haran te, Reseph te, Eden ta Telasar khuaa om te khawng.

¹³Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?”’”

¹³Hamath kumpipa te, Arpad kumpipate, Sephavaim khopi kumpipa te, Hena kumpipa te, Ivva kumpipa te koia om a hita ua? chiin, a chi a.

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.

¹⁴Huan, Hezekiain a mi sawlte khuta kipan lai a mu a, a sim a: huchiin Hezekia TOUPA inah a luta, TOUPA maah a jak.

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.

¹⁵Huan, Hezekia TOUPA maah a thum a, TOUPA aw, cherubte tunga tu, Israel Pathian, nang, nang kia leitung gam tengteng Pathian na hi; lei leh van nangmah bawlsa ahi.

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.

¹⁶TOUPA aw, na bil na doh inla, ngai dih ve; TOUPA aw, na mit hak inla, en dih ve; Pathian hing gense dinga Sennakeribin thu a honggen ngaikhe dih ve.

¹⁷Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

¹⁷TOUPA, Assuria kumpipaten namte leh a gamte uh a hihse sek ngei ua, a pathiante uh meiah a pai sek uh:

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.

¹⁸Huaite bel pathian ahi kei him ua, mihing khuta bawl sing leh suang ahi jaw uhi: huaijiakin a hihmang uh ahi.

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.”

¹⁹Huaijiakin TOUPA ka Pathian uh aw, nang, nang kia TOUPA Pathian na hi chih leitung luah gam tengtengin a theih theihna ding un a lakah honhumbit ngeingeiin, chiin.

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.

²⁰Huai laiin Amoz tapa Isaiin Hezekia kiangah, TOUPA Israel Pathianin hichiin a chi hi, Assuria kumpipa Sennakerib siatna ding lama ka kianga na thum najaa, chiin a honsawl hi.

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.

²¹Hiai a tungtang thu TOUPAN a gen ahi: Zion tanu nungakin nang a honmusit ua, a honnuih-san ua; Jerusalem tanuin a lu a honsin khum.

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.

²²Kua na minse saka, kua na gensiaa? Kua tungah ahia na aw na puk sak, na mit na hah san? Israelte Mi Siangthoupa tungah ahi.

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.

²³Na mi sawlte zangin TOUPA na minsesaka, Ka kangtalai tampi toh Lebanon gam gil tang sangte ka hongtungtou ta; huaia Sidar sing sang pipite leh taksing hoih pipite ka phuk ding; a lei hoihna mun gammang a tenna mun gil penah ka lut ding.

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

²⁴Gam dang tui ka lai khiaa, ka ne jela, ka khepek nuaiah Aigupta lui tengteng ka kangsak vek ding, na chi a.

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.

²⁵Keimahin nidang laia kipan huai ka hih a hihdan bang, malaia kipan huai ka bawl a hih dan bang na za ka hia? Kho kulh neite in chim khawm lel banga hihsepa dingin nang ka honsepta ahi.

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.

²⁶Huaijiakin a sunga omten hatna a neikei ua, a lauthawng ua, a hong zahlakta uhi; gamlak loupa bang leh, loupa hing bang leh, in tunga loupa bang leh, buh a let maa hai vuai bang ahi uh.

²⁷But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.

²⁷Ken bel na tut te, na lut leh na pawt leh ka tunga na heh te ka thei hi.

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.”

²⁸Ka tunga na heh jiak leh, uang taka na pau ka bila a honglut touh jiakin ka nakbulh na nak ah ka bulh dinga, ka sikbah na muk ah; na hongkuanna lampi mahmahah ka honkik sak nawn ding, chiin.

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.

²⁹Huan, hiai nanga dinga chiamtehna ahi ding: tukumin buhsang na sen ding ua; kum nawn chiangin a sang mah; huan, kum thumnaah buh na tuh ding ua, at unla, grep huante bawl unla, a gahte ne un.

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

³⁰Huchiin Juda inkote laka dam lai omsunten a suk lamin zung a kai ding ua, a tou lamin a gah nawn ding uh.

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.’

³¹Jerusalem akipanin a omsunte Zion tang akipan a damlaite a pawt khe sin uhi; TOUPA phatuamngaihnain huaite a chi hi.

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.

³²Huaijiakin TOUPAN Assuria kumpipa tungtang thu hichiin a gen, Hiai khopi a hongtung kei ding, hiai laiah leng thal a kap sam kei ding, lum toh a kiangah lah a hongpai sam kei dinga, a kho julah lah lei a se sang kei ding uhi.

³³By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

³³A hongpaina lampi ah, huai mahah a nungkik nawn dinga, hiai khopi a hongtung kei ding, TOUPAN a chi.

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

³⁴Kei jiak leh ka sikha David jiakin hiai khopi humbit dingin ka veng ding hi, chiin.

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.

³⁵Huchiin huai janin hichi ahi a, TOUPA angel a kuan khiaa, Assuriate giahmun ah mi nuaikhat leh singgiat leh sangnga a thata; huan, jing khanga a hongthoh uleh, ngaiin, misi luang ngen ana om maimah.

³⁶So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

³⁶Huchiin Assuria kumpipa Sennakerib apawta, a kik nawna, a pai nawn jela, Ninevi khuaah a omta hi.Huan a pathian Nisrok inah amah a biak laiin hichi ahia, Adrammelek leh Sarezer ten namsauin a that ua; huchiin Ararat gamah a tai lutta uh. Huan, a tapa Esar-haddon a sikin a lalta hi.

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.

³⁷Huan a pathian Nisrok inah amah a biak laiin hichi ahia, Adrammelek leh Sarezer ten namsauin a that ua; huchiin Ararat gamah a tai lutta uh. Huan, a tapa Esar-haddon a sikin a lalta hi.