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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.’”

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.

⁵So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

⁵Ko so torej prišli hlapci Ezekija kralja k Izaiju,

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.

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!

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.”’”

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

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

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

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,

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:

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.”

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. –

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.

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.

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

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

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.’

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.