以赛亚书 37
1 希西家王听见就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进了耶和华的殿，
And it came to pass, when king Ezechias had heard it, that 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 sackcloth, to Isaias the son of Amos the prophet.
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: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4 或者耶和华—你的 神听见拉伯沙基的话，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 the words of Rabsaces, whom the king of the Assyrians his master hath sent to blaspheme the living God, and to reproach with words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
5 希西家王的臣仆就去见以赛亚。
And the servants of 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 of the words that 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 to his own country, and I will cause him to 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。”亚述王一听见，就打发使者去见希西家，吩咐他们说：
And he heard say about Tharaca the king of Ethiopia: He is come forth to fight against thee. And when he heard it, 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 speak to Ezechias the king of Juda, saying: Let not thy God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest, saying: Jerusalem shall not be given 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 all that the kings of the Assyrians hare done to all countries which they have destroyed, and canst thou 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 them whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozam, and Haram, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that were in Thalassar?
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 Ezechias took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it, and went up to the house of the Lord, and Ezechias spread it before the Lord.
15 希西家向耶和华祷告说：
And Ezechias prayed to the Lord, saying:
16 “坐在二基路伯上万军之耶和华—以色列的 神啊，你—惟有你是天下万国的 神，你曾创造天地。
O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who sittest upon the cherubims, thou alone art the God of all the kingdoms of the earth, thou hast made heaven and earth.
17 耶和华啊，求你侧耳而听；耶和华啊，求你睁眼而看，要听西拿基立的一切话，他是打发使者来辱骂永生 神的。
Incline, O Lord, thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes, and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he hath sent to blaspheme the living God.
18 耶和华啊，亚述诸王果然使列国和列国之地变为荒凉，
For of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste lands, and their countries.
19 将列国的神像都扔在火里；因为他本不是神，乃是人手所造的，是木头、石头的，所以灭绝他。
And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the works of men’s hands, of wood and stone: and they broke them in pieces.
20 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有你是耶和华。”
And now, O Lord our God, save us out of his hand: and let all the kingdoms of the earth know, that thou only art the Lord.
21 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，
And Isaias the son of Amos sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: For the prayer thou hast made to me concerning Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians:
22 所以耶和华论他这样说： 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 which 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 the head after thee.
23 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, and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
24 你借你的臣仆辱骂主说： 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 I will out down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees, and will enter to the top of its height, to the forest of its Carmel.
25 我已经挖井喝水； 我必用脚掌踏干埃及的一切河。
I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.
26 耶和华说：你岂没有听见 我早先所做的、古时所立的吗？ 现在借你使坚固城荒废，变为乱堆。
Hast thou not heard what I have done to him of old? from the days of old I have formed it: and now I have brought it to effect: and it hath come to pass that hills fighting together, and fenced cities should be destroyed.
27 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， 又如田间未长成的禾稼。
The inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled, and were confounded: they became like the grass of the field, and the herb of the pasture, and like the grass of the housetops, which withered before it was ripe.
28 你坐下，你出去，你进来， 你向我发烈怒，我都知道。
I know thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
29 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， 使你从原路转回去。
When thou wast mad against me, thy pride came 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.
30 “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。
But to thee this shall be a sign: Eat this year the things that spring of themselves, and in the second year eat fruits: but in the third year sow and reap, and giant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
31 犹大家所逃脱余剩的，仍要往下扎根，向上结果。
And that which shall be saved of the house of Juda, and which is left, shall take root downward, and shall bear fruit upward:
32 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。万军之耶和华的热心必成就这事。
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a, remnant, and salvation from mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
33 “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.
34 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.
35 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 the sake of David my servant.
36 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 the angel of the Lord went out, and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose in the morning, and behold they were all dead corpses.
37 亚述王西拿基立就拔营回去，住在尼尼微。
And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and departed, and returned, and dwelt in Ninive.
38 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 it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the sword: and they fled into the land of Ararat, and Asarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
