列王紀下 19
1 希西家王聽見，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，進了耶和華的殿；
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 使家宰以利亞敬和書記舍伯那，並祭司中的長老，都披上麻布，去見亞摩斯的兒子先知以賽亞，
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 對他說：「希西家如此說：『今日是急難、責罰、凌辱的日子，就如婦人將要生產嬰孩，卻沒有力量生產。
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 或者耶和華－你的上帝聽見拉伯沙基的一切話，就是他主人亞述王打發他來辱罵永生上帝的話，耶和華－你的上帝聽見這話，就發斥責。故此，求你為餘剩的民揚聲禱告。』」
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 希西家王的臣僕就去見以賽亞。
So the servants of king Ezechias came to Isaias.
6 以賽亞對他們說：「要這樣對你們的主人說，耶和華如此說：『你聽見亞述王的僕人褻瀆我的話，不要懼怕。
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 我必驚動他的心，他要聽見風聲就歸回本地。我必使他在那裏倒在刀下。』」
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，正遇見亞述王攻打立拿，原來他早聽見亞述王拔營離開拉吉。
And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachis.
9 亞述王聽見人論古實王特哈加說：「他出來要與你爭戰。」於是亞述王又打發使者去見希西家，吩咐他們說：
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 「你們對猶大王希西家如此說：『不要聽你所倚靠的上帝欺哄你，說耶路撒冷必不交在亞述王的手中。
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 你總聽說亞述諸王向列國所行的，乃是盡行滅絕，難道你還能得救嗎？
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 我列祖所毀滅的，就是歌散、哈蘭、利色，和屬提‧拉撒的伊甸人，這些國的神何曾拯救這些國呢？
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 哈馬的王、亞珥拔的王、西法瓦音城的王、希拿，和以瓦的王都在哪裏呢？』」
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 希西家從使者手裏接過書信來，看完了，就上耶和華的殿，將書信在耶和華面前展開。
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 希西家向耶和華禱告說：「坐在二基路伯上耶和華－以色列的上帝啊，你是天下萬國的上帝，你曾創造天地。
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 耶和華啊，求你側耳而聽！耶和華啊，求你睜眼而看！要聽西拿基立打發使者來辱罵永生上帝的話。
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 耶和華啊，亞述諸王果然使列國和列國之地變為荒涼，
Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have destroyed nations, and the lands of them all.
18 將列國的神像都扔在火裏；因為它本不是神，乃是人手所造的，是木頭石頭的，所以滅絕它。
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 耶和華－我們的上帝啊，現在求你救我們脫離亞述王的手，使天下萬國都知道惟獨你－耶和華是上帝！」
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 亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞就打發人去見希西家，說：「耶和華－以色列的上帝如此說：『你既然求我攻擊亞述王西拿基立，我已聽見了。』
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 耶和華論他這樣說： 錫安的處女藐視你，嗤笑你； 耶路撒冷的女子向你搖頭。
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 你辱罵誰？褻瀆誰？ 揚起聲來，高舉眼目攻擊誰呢？ 乃是攻擊以色列的聖者！
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 你藉你的使者辱罵主， 並說：我率領許多戰車上山頂， 到黎巴嫩極深之處； 我要砍伐其中高大的香柏樹和佳美的松樹； 我必上極高之處，進入肥田的樹林。
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 我已經在外邦挖井喝水； 我必用腳掌踏乾埃及的一切河。
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 耶和華說，我早先所做的， 古時所立的，就是現在藉你 使堅固城荒廢，變為亂堆， 這事你豈沒有聽見嗎？
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， 驚惶羞愧。 他們像野草，像青菜， 如房頂上的草， 又如未長成而枯乾的禾稼。
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，你進來， 你向我發烈怒，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 因你向我發烈怒， 又因你狂傲的話達到我耳中， 我就要用鉤子鉤上你的鼻子， 把嚼環放在你口裏， 使你從你來的路轉回去。
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，我賜你們一個證據：你們今年要吃自生的，明年也要吃自長的；至於後年，你們要耕種收割，栽植葡萄園，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 猶大家所逃脫餘剩的，仍要往下扎根，向上結果。
And whatsoever shall be left of the house of Juda, shall take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31 必有餘剩的民從耶路撒冷而出；必有逃脫的人從錫安山而來。耶和華的熱心必成就這事。
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，耶和華論亞述王如此說：『他必不得來到這城，也不在這裏射箭，不得拿盾牌到城前，也不築壘攻城。
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 他從哪條路來，必從那條路回去，必不得來到這城。這是耶和華說的。
By the way that he came, he shall return: and into this city he shall not come, saith the Lord.
34 因我為自己的緣故，又為我僕人大衛的緣故，必保護拯救這城。』」
And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for David my servant’s sake.
35 當夜，耶和華的使者出去，在亞述營中殺了十八萬五千人。清早有人起來，一看，都是死屍了。
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 亞述王西拿基立就拔營回去，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廟裏叩拜，他兒子亞得米勒和沙利色用刀殺了他，就逃到亞拉臘地。他兒子以撒哈頓接續他作王。
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.
