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

¹A stalo sa, keď to počul kráľ Ezechiáš, že roztrhnul svoje rúcho, odial sa smútočným vrecom a vošiel do domu Hospodinovho.

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.

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

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

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

⁴It may be Yahweh your God will hear 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.’”

⁴Možno, že Hospodin, tvoj Bôh, počuje slová Rabsákeho, ktorého poslal assýrsky kráľ, jeho pán, aby sa rúhal živému Bohu, a potresce ho za slová, ktoré počul Hospodin tvoj Bôh, a preto povznes modlitbu za ostatok, ktorý sa ešte nachádza.

⁵So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

⁵A tak prišli služobníci kráľa Ezechiáša k Izaiášovi.

⁶Isaiah said to them, “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.

⁶A Izaiáš im povedal: Takto poviete svojmu pánovi: Takto hovorí Hospodin: Neboj sa slov, ktoré si počul, ktorými obrážali sluhovia assýrskeho kráľa mňa.

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.”’”

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.

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

⁸A tak sa navrátil Rabsáke a našiel assýrskeho kráľa bojovať proti Libne, lebo počul, že odišiel od Lachiša.

⁹He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

⁹A počul o Tirhákovi, ethiopskom kráľovi, že hovorili: Vyšiel, aby bojoval s tebou. A keď to počul, poslal poslov k Ezechiášovi a riekol:

¹⁰“Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

¹⁰Takto poviete Ezechiášovi, judskému kráľovi: Nech ťa neklame tvoj Bôh, na ktorého sa ty nadeješ hovoriac: Nebude vydaný Jeruzalem do ruky assýrskeho kráľa!

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

¹¹Lebo hľa, ty si počul o tom, čo učinili assýrski kráľovia všetkým zemiam, ako ich docela zahubili, a ty by si mal byť vytrhnutý?

¹²Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

¹²Či ich azda vytrhli bohovia národov, ktoré zkazili moji otcovia, Gozana a Chárana, Récefa a synov Édena, ktorí boli v Telassáre?

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

¹³Kde je kráľ Chamatu, kráľ Arpadu a kráľ mesta Sefarvajima, Hény a Ivvy?

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

¹⁴A Ezechiáš vezmúc list z ruky poslov prečítal ho a odíduc hore do domu Hospodinovho rozprestrel ho Ezechiáš pred Hospodinom.

¹⁵Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,

¹⁵A Ezechiáš sa modlil Hospodinovi a povedal:

¹⁶“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

¹⁶Hospodine Zástupov, Bože Izraelov, ktorý tróniš nad cherubínmi, ty si sám jediným Bohom a to všetkých kráľovstiev zeme, ty si učinil nebesia i zem.

¹⁷Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

¹⁷Nakloň, Hospodine, svoje ucho a počuj! Otvor, Hospodine, svoje oči a vidz a počuj všetky slová Senacheribove, ktorý poslal rúhať sa živému Bohu.

¹⁸Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,

¹⁸Je to skutočná pravda, Hospodine, spustošili assýrski kráľovia všetky tie krajiny aj ich zem.

¹⁹and 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 pohádzali ich bohov do ohňa, lebo to neboli Bohovia, ale dielo rúk človeka, drevo a kameň, a preto ich zahubili.

²⁰Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”

²⁰A tak teraz, Hospodine, náš Bože, zachráň nás z jeho ruky, aby poznaly všetky kráľovstvá zeme, že ty, Hospodine, si sám jediný.

²¹Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

²¹Vtedy poslal Izaiáš, syn Ámosov, k Ezechiášovi a riekol: Takto hovorí Hospodin, Bôh Izraelov: Čo do toho, za čo si sa mi modlil, ohľadne Senacheriba, assýrskeho kráľa,

²²this is the word which 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.

²²toto je slovo, ktoré hovorí Hospodin o ňom: Opovrhuje tebou a posmieva sa ti panna dcéry Siona, posmešne kýva za tebou hlavou dcéra Jeruzalema!

²³Whom 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.

²³Komu si sa ty rúhal a koho si obrážal? Proti komu si povýšil hlas? A pozdvihuješ svoje oči na výsosť proti Svätému Izraelovmu!

²⁴By your servants, have you 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. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.

²⁴Skrze svojich služobníkov si sa rúhal Pánovi a povedal si: S množstvom svojich vozov som ja vyšiel na výšinu vrchov, na najvyššie vrcholy Libanona a pozotínam jeho vysoké cedry i jeho výborné jedle a prijdem na výšinu jeho konca, do lesa, do jeho ovocnej zahrady.

²⁵I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”

²⁵Ja som vykopal a pil cudzie vody a vysuším spodkom svojich nôh všetky toky Egypta.

²⁶Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

²⁶Či si ty nepočul, že som to dávno učinil, že som to pradávno utvoril? A teraz som to priviedol ta, že si na to, aby si pustošil ohradené mestá a obrátil ich na hromady rumov.

²⁷Therefore their inhabitants had little 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 a field before its crop has grown.

²⁷A ich obyvatelia nemajúc sily odolať desia sa a hanbia; stali sa poľnou bylinou a zeleňou sviežej trávy, trávou na strechách, posiatym poľom, zkazeným hrdzou prv, ako by bolo vyrástlo do stebla.

²⁸But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

²⁸Ale ja znám tvoje sedenie, tvoje vychádzanie i tvoje vchádzanie i tvoje zúrenie proti mne.

²⁹Because 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.

²⁹Preto, že tvoje zúrenie proti mne a tvoja spupná ubezpečenosť prišla hore do mojich uší, preto dám svoju obrúčku do tvojich nozdier a svoje zubadlo do tvojich rtov a odvediem ťa nazpät cestou, ktorou si prišiel.

³⁰This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

³⁰A toto ti bude, Ezechiášu, znamením: Tohoto roku budete jesť to, čo samo dorastie, i druhého roku to, čo sa samo urodí, a tretieho roku sejte a žnite, saďte vinice a jedzte ich ovocie.

³¹The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

³¹A uniklé domu Júdovho, ktoré pozostane, vpustí zase korene dolu a vydá ovocie hore.

³²For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go forth, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’

³²Lebo z Jeruzalema vyjde ostatok, a to, čo unikne záhube, s vrchu Siona. Žiarlivosť Hospodina Zástupov to učiní.

³³Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

³³Preto takto hovorí Hospodin o assýrskom kráľovi: Nevojde do tohoto mesta ani ta nevostrelí strely ani nepojde proti nemu štítom ani nenasype proti nemu násypu.

³⁴By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

³⁴Tou istou cestou, ktorou prišiel, sa i navráti, ale do tohoto mesta nevojde, hovorí Hospodin.

³⁵‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”

³⁵Lebo budem brániť toto mesto zastávajúc ho, aby som ho zachránil, pre seba a pre Dávida, svojho služobníka.

³⁶The angel of Yahweh went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

³⁶Potom vyšiel anjel Hospodinov a pobil v assýrskom tábore sto osemdesiatpäť tisíc. A keď vstali skoro ráno, videli, že hľa, všetci boli mŕtvolami.

³⁷So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

³⁷Preto sa pohol a odišiel. A tak sa navrátil Senacherib, assýrsky kráľ, a býval v Ninive-m.

³⁸It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

³⁸A stalo sa, keď sa klaňal v dome Nizrocha, svojho boha, že Adrammelech a Šarécer, jeho synovia, ho zabili mečom a sami utiekli do zeme Araratu. A kraľoval Esarchaddon, jeho syn, miesto neho.