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1 希則克雅王一聽這話，就撕破了自己的衣服，穿上苦衣，走進了上主的殿；
When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the LORD’s house.
2 然後打發厄里雅金家宰，舍布納書記和幾位老司祭，穿著苦衣，去見阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞先知，
He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 對他說：「希則克雅這樣說：今天是受苦難，受責罰，受侮辱的日子。因為嬰兒到了要出生的時候，卻沒有產生的力量。
They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today 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.
4 但願上主你的天主聽到那大將軍的一切話，就是他的主上亞述王打發他來，辱罵永生的天主所說的話! 願上主你的天主聽了那些話而加以懲罰! 所以請你為剩下的遺民舉行祈禱罷! 」
It may be the LORD 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 the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
5 希則克雅王的臣僕來到了依撒意亞前，
So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 依撒意亞就對他們說：「你們要這樣對你們的主上說：上主這樣說：你聽到亞述王的僕人們辱罵我的話，不要害怕!
Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘The LORD says, “Do not be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 我必叫他感到一種怕情，使他一聽到某種消息，就返回本國；我要使他在本國內喪身刀下。」
Behold, 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.”’”
8 大將軍回去時，正遇見亞述王去攻打里貝納。原來他已聽說君王離開了拉基士。
So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
9 那時，散乃黑黎布聽人說：雇士王提爾哈卡出來攻打他，就再派使者去見希則克雅，並吩咐說：「
When 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,
10 你們要這樣對猶大王希則克雅說：不要讓你所依靠的天主哄騙了你說：耶路撒冷決不會落在亞述王手中!
“Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 你必聽說過亞述的列王對各國所行的事，將各國完全消滅了。你還能有救嗎﹖
Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered?
12 我的祖先所消滅的各民族，如哥倉、哈郎、勒責夫、以及在特拉撒爾的厄登子民，他們的神又何曾救了他們﹖
Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
13 哈瑪特王，阿帕得王，色法瓦因城的王，赫納王和依瓦王，他們現今都在那裡﹖」
Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”
14 希則克雅從使者中接過信來，念了以後，就走進上主的殿，將那信在上主面前展開，
Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the LORD’s house, and spread it before the LORD.
15 然後，希則克雅懇求上主說：「上主，坐在革魯賓上面的以色列的天主! 惟獨你是地上萬國的天主，你創造了天地。
Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, “LORD, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
16 上主，請你側耳傾聽! 上主，求你睜眼垂視，細聽那打發使者辱罵永生天主的散乃黑黎布的話。
Incline your ear, LORD, and hear. Open your eyes, LORD, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.
17 上主，的確，亞述王曾毀滅了所有的民族和他們的國家，
Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
18 將他們的神像投入火中，因為它們不是神，只是人手造成的木石的作品，所以能被消滅。
and 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.
19 但是現今，上主我們的天主，求你拯救我們脫離他的手，使地上萬國都知道：惟獨你是上主，天主! 」
Now therefore, LORD our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, LORD, are God alone.”
20 那時，阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞打發人去見希則克雅說：「上主以色列的天主這樣說：你既然論亞述王散乃黑黎布向我懇求，我已經俯聽了你。
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.
21 這就是上主論他所說的話：熙雍的貞女輕視你，嘲笑你；耶路撒冷的女子在你背後搖頭。
This is the word that the LORD 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.
22 你所辱罵，所詛咒的是誰﹖你提高聲音，仰起眼睛攻擊的是誰﹖是攻擊以色列的聖者。
Whom 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!
23 你藉你的使者辱罵了吾主，你說：我用我大批的車輛，登上了叢山的極峰，到黎巴嫩的絕頂，砍伐了其中最高的香柏，最好的青松；衝入了它的最深處，走進了果木的林園。
By 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 cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.
24 我掘了井喝了外邦的水，用我的腳掌踏乾了埃及所有的河川。
I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.”
25 難道你沒有聽說嗎﹖很久以前我所計劃的，昔日我所決定的，現在我就在實現，叫你毀壞堅城，化為廢墟，
Have not you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
26 使城中的居民軟弱無力，驚慌失措，有如田野的青草，有如青綠的嫩苗，有如屋頂被東風吹焦的小草。
Therefore 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 grain blasted before it has grown up.
27 但是，你或起或坐，或出或入，我都知道，
But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
28 因為你對我的暴怒，和你的狂囂已達到我的耳鼓，所以我要把環子穿在你的鼻子上，把轡頭套在你的嘴上，從你來的路上將你牽回去。
Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will 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.’
29 這是給你的記號：今年你們要吃自然所生的，明年仍要吃自然所生的，第三年你們就要播種收割，栽種葡萄園，吃園中的果實。
“This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from that; and in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
30 猶大家的遺民，仍要向下生根，往上結實，
The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31 因為剩餘的人將由耶路撒冷而出，逃脫的人將由熙雍山而來：萬軍上主的熱誠必要成就這事。
For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. The LORD’s zeal will perform this.
32 為此，上主問亞述王這樣說：他決不會進入這城，決不會向這城放射一箭，決不會持盾臨於城下，也決不會起造土堆攻城。
“Therefore the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
33 他必要由來路回去，決不能進入這城：上主的斷語。
He will return the same way that he came, and he will not come to this city,’ says the LORD.
34 為了我自己，為了我的僕人達味，我必要保護拯救這城。」
‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.’”
35 當天夜裡，上主的使者出來，在亞述營裡殺了十八萬五千人。清晨人們起來，看見遍地都是死屍。
That night, the LORD’s angel 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.
36 亞述王散乃黑黎布於是拔營，起程回國，住在尼尼微。
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went home, and lived at Nineveh.
37 一日，他在自己的神尼色洛客廟內叩拜的時候，他的兒子阿德辣默肋客和沙勒責爾用劍刺殺了他，然後逃往阿辣辣特地方去了；他的兒子厄撒哈冬繼位為王。
As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
