列王纪下 19
1 希西家王听见，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进了耶和华的殿；
And when king Ezechias heard these words, he rent his garments, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
2 使家宰以利亚敬和书记舍伯那，并祭司中的长老，都披上麻布，去见亚摩斯的儿子先知以赛亚，
And he sent Eliacim, who was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and the ancients of the priests covered with sackcloths, to Isaias the prophet the son of Amos,
3 对他说：“希西家如此说：‘今日是急难、责罚、凌辱的日子，就如妇人将要生产婴孩，却没有力量生产。
And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a day of tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: the children are come to the birth, and the woman in travail hath not strength.
4 或者耶和华—你的 神听见拉伯沙基的一切话，就是他主人亚述王打发他来辱骂永生 神的话，耶和华—你的 神听见这话，就发斥责。故此，求你为余剩的民扬声祷告。’”
It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rabsaces, whom the king of the Assyrians his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and to reprove with words, which the Lord thy God hath heard: and do thou offer prayer for the remnants that are found.
5 希西家王的臣仆就去见以赛亚。
So the servants of king Ezechias came to Isaias.
6 以赛亚对他们说：“要这样对你们的主人说，耶和华如此说：‘你听见亚述王的仆人亵渎我的话，不要惧怕。
And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say to your master: Thus saith the Lord: Be not afraid for the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.
7 我必惊动他的心，他要听见风声就归回本地。我必使他在那里倒在刀下。’”
Behold I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a message, and shall return into his own country, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own country.
8 拉伯沙基回去，正遇见亚述王攻打立拿，原来他早听见亚述王拔营离开拉吉。
And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachis.
9 亚述王听见人论古实王特哈加说：“他出来要与你争战。”于是亚述王又打发使者去见希西家，吩咐他们说：
And when he heard of Theraca king of Ethiopia: Behold, he is come out to fight with thee: and was going against him, he sent messengers to Ezechias, saying:
10 “你们对犹大王希西家如此说：‘不要听你所倚靠的 神欺哄你，说耶路撒冷必不交在亚述王的手中。
Thus shall you say to Ezechias king of Juda: Let not thy God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest: and do not say: Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.
11 你总听说亚述诸王向列国所行的，乃是尽行灭绝，难道你还能得救吗？
Behold thou hast heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done to all countries, how they have laid them waste: and canst thou alone be delivered?
12 我列祖所毁灭的，就是歌散、哈兰、利色，和属提·拉撒的伊甸人，这些国的神何曾拯救这些国呢？
Have the gods of the nations delivered any of them, whom my fathers have destroyed, to wit, Gozan, and Haran, and Reseph, and the children of Eden that were in Thelassar?
13 哈马的王、亚珥拔的王、西法瓦音城的王、希拿，和以瓦的王都在哪里呢？’”
Where is the king of Emath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Ana and of Ava?
14 希西家从使者手里接过书信来，看完了，就上耶和华的殿，将书信在耶和华面前展开。
And when Ezechias had received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and had read it, he went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord,
15 希西家向耶和华祷告说：“坐在二基路伯上耶和华—以色列的 神啊，你是天下万国的 神，你曾创造天地。
And he prayed in his sight, saying: O Lord God of Israel, who sitteth upon the cherubims, thou alone art the God of all the kings of the earth: thou madest heaven and earth:
16 耶和华啊，求你侧耳而听！耶和华啊，求你睁眼而看！要听西拿基立打发使者来辱骂永生 神的话。
Incline thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to upbraid unto us the living God.
17 耶和华啊，亚述诸王果然使列国和列国之地变为荒凉，
Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have destroyed nations, and the lands of them all.
18 将列国的神像都扔在火里；因为它本不是神，乃是人手所造的，是木头石头的，所以灭绝它。
And they have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not Rods, but the works of men’s hands of wood and stone, and they destroyed them.
19 耶和华—我们的 神啊，现在求你救我们脱离亚述王的手，使天下万国都知道惟独你—耶和华是 神！”
Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know, that thou art the Lord the only God.
20 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚就打发人去见希西家，说：“耶和华—以色列的 神如此说：‘你既然求我攻击亚述王西拿基立，我已听见了。’
And Isaias the son of Amos sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I have heard the prayer thou hast made to me concerning Sennacherib king of the Assyrians.
21 耶和华论他这样说： 锡安的处女藐视你，嗤笑你； 耶路撒冷的女子向你摇头。
This is the word, that the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin the daughter of Sion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged her head behind thy back.
22 你辱骂谁？亵渎谁？ 扬起声来，高举眼目攻击谁呢？ 乃是攻击以色列的圣者！
Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed? against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? against the holy one of Israel.
23 你借你的使者辱骂主， 并说：我率领许多战车上山顶， 到黎巴嫩极深之处； 我要砍伐其中高大的香柏树和佳美的松树； 我必上极高之处，进入肥田的树林。
By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the top of Libanus, and have cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees. And I have entered into the furthest parts thereof, and the forest of its Carmel.
24 我已经在外邦挖井喝水； 我必用脚掌踏干埃及的一切河。
I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.
25 耶和华说，我早先所做的， 古时所立的，就是现在借你 使坚固城荒废，变为乱堆， 这事你岂没有听见吗？
Hast thou not heard what I have done from the beginning? from the days of old I have formed it, and now I have brought it to effect: that fenced cities of fighting men should be turned to heaps of ruin:
26 所以其中的居民力量甚小， 惊惶羞愧。 他们像野草，像青菜， 如房顶上的草， 又如未长成而枯干的禾稼。
And the inhabitants of them, were weak of hand, they trembled and were confounded, they became like the grass of the field, and the green herb on the tops of houses, which withered before it came to maturity.
27 你坐下，你出去，你进来， 你向我发烈怒，我都知道。
Thy dwelling and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy way I knew before, and thy rage against me.
28 因你向我发烈怒， 又因你狂傲的话达到我耳中， 我就要用钩子钩上你的鼻子， 把嚼环放在你口里， 使你从你来的路转回去。
Thou hast been mad against me, and thy pride hath come up to my ears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way, by which thou camest.
29 “以色列人哪，我赐你们一个证据：你们今年要吃自生的，明年也要吃自长的；至于后年，你们要耕种收割，栽植葡萄园，吃其中的果子。
And to thee, O Ezechias, this shall be a sign: Eat this year what thou shalt find: and in the second year, such things as spring of themselves: but in the third year sow and reap: plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
30 犹大家所逃脱余剩的，仍要往下扎根，向上结果。
And whatsoever shall be left of the house of Juda, shall take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31 必有余剩的民从耶路撒冷而出；必有逃脱的人从锡安山而来。耶和华的热心必成就这事。
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and that which shall be saved out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
32 “所以，耶和华论亚述王如此说：‘他必不得来到这城，也不在这里射箭，不得拿盾牌到城前，也不筑垒攻城。
Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.
33 他从哪条路来，必从那条路回去，必不得来到这城。这是耶和华说的。
By the way that he came, he shall return: and into this city he shall not come, saith the Lord.
34 因我为自己的缘故，又为我仆人大卫的缘故，必保护拯救这城。’”
And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for David my servant’s sake.
35 当夜，耶和华的使者出去，在亚述营中杀了十八万五千人。清早有人起来，一看，都是死尸了。
And it came to pass that night, that an angel of the Lord came, and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when he arose early in the morning, he saw all the bodies of the dead.
36 亚述王西拿基立就拔营回去，住在尼尼微。
And Sennacherib king of the Assyrians departing went away, and he returned and abode in Ninive.
37 一日在他的神尼斯洛庙里叩拜，他儿子亚得米勒和沙利色用刀杀了他，就逃到亚拉腊地。他儿子以撒哈顿接续他作王。
And as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch his god, Adramelech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the sword, and they fled into the land of the Armenians, and Asarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
