2 Kraljevima 19
1 Čuvši to, kralj Ezekija razdrije svoje haljine, obuče kostrijet i ode u Dom Jahvin.
And it came to pass when king Ezekias heard it, that he tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth, an went into the house of the Lord.
2 Zatim posla Elijakima, upravitelja dvora, pisara Šebnu i svećeničke starješine, odjevene u kostrijet, k proroku Izaiji, sinu Amosovu.
And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests, clothed with sackcloth, to Esaias the prophet the son of Amos.
3 Oni mu rekoše: “Ovako veli Ezekija: 'Ovo je dan nevolje, kazne i rugla. Prispješe djeca do rođenja, a nema snage da se rode.
And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias, This day [is] a day of tribulation, and rebuke, and provocation: for the children are come to the travail-[pangs], but the mother has no strength.
4 Možda je Jahve, Bog tvoj, čuo što je rekao veliki peharnik koga je asirski kralj, gospodar njegov, poslao da se izruguje Bogu živome i možda će Jahve, Bog tvoj, kazniti riječi koje je čuo! Pomoli se pobožno za Ostatak koji je još preostao.'”
Peradventure the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rapsakes, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God and to revile him with the words which the Lord your God has heard: and you shall offer [your] prayer for the remnant that is found.
5 Kad su sluge kralja Ezekije stigle k Izaiji,
So the servants of king Ezekias came to Esaias.
6 on im reče: “Kažite svome gospodaru: 'Ovako veli Jahve: Ne boj se riječi koje si čuo kada su na me hulile sluge kralja asirskoga.
And Esaias said to them, Thus shall you say to your master, Thus says the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which you have heard, wherewith the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed.
7 Udahnut ću u njega duh i kad čuje jednu vijest, vratit će se u svoju zemlju. I učinit ću da u svojoj zemlji pogine od mača.'”
Behold, I send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and shall return to his own land; and I will overthrow him with the sword in his own land.
8 Veliki peharnik vrati se i nađe asirskoga kralja gdje opsjeda Libnu, jer bijaše čuo da je kralj otišao iz Lakiša.
So Rapsakes returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Lobna: for he heard that he [had] departed from Lachis.
9 Dočuo je, naime, vijest o Tirhaku, kralju etiopskome: “Evo, izašao je da se bori protiv tebe.” Tada Sanherib ponovo uputi poslanike da kažu Ezekiji:
And he heard concerning Tharaca king of the Ethiopians, saying, Behold, he is come forth to fight with you: and he returned, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,
10 “Ovako recite judejskom kralju Ezekiji: 'Neka te ne vara tvoj Bog, u koga se uzdaš, govoreći ti: Jeruzalem neće pasti u ruke asirskog kralja!
Let not your God on whom you trust encourage you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.
11 Ti znaš što su asirski kraljevi učinili svim zemljama izručivši ih prokletstvu! A ti, ti li ćeš se spasiti?
Behold, you have heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done in all the lands, to waste them utterly: and shall you be delivered?
12 Jesu li bogovi spasili narode što su ih uništili moji oci: Gozance, Harane, Resefce i Edence, u Tel Basaru?
Have the gods of the nations at all delivered them, whom my fathers destroyed; both Gozan, and Charran, and Raphis, and the sons of Edem who were in Thaesthen?
13 Gdje je kralj hamatski, kralj arpadski, kralj Sefarvajima, Hene i Ive?'”
Where is the king of Haemath, and the king of Arphad? and where is the king of the city of Seppharvaim, of Ana, and Aba?
14 Ezekija primi pismo iz ruke poslanikove i pročita ga. Zatim uđe u Dom Jahvin i razvi ga ondje pred Jahvom.
And Ezekias took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and he went up to the house of the Lord, and Ezekias spread it before the Lord,
15 I pomoli se Ezekija Jahvi ovako: “Jahve, Bože Izraelov, koji stoluješ nad kerubima, ti si Bog jedini nad svim zemaljskim kraljevstvima, ti si stvorio nebo i zemlju.
and said, O Lord God of Israel that dwell over the cherubs, you are the only god in all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
16 Prikloni uho, Jahve, i počuj, otvori oči, Jahve, i vidi! Sanheribove čujder riječi koje poruči da izruga Boga živoga.
Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear: open, Lord, your eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherim, which he has sent to reproach the living God.
17 Istina je, o Jahve, asirski su kraljevi zatrli narode i zemlje njihove;
For truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have wasted the nations,
18 pobacali im u oganj bogove; jer ne bijahu bogovi to, već djela ruku ljudskih, od drveta i kamena; zato ih i uništiše.
and have cast their gods into the fire: because they are no gods, but the works of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.
19 Ali sada, Jahve, Bože naš, izbavi nas iz ruke njegove da spoznaju sva kraljevstva zemlje da si ti, Jahve, Bog jedini.”
And now, O Lord our God, deliver us out of his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall know that you alone [are] the Lord God.
20 Tada Izaija, sin Amosov, poruči Ezekiji: “Ovako veli Jahve, Bog Izraelov: 'Uslišah molitvu koju mi uputi zbog Sanheriba, kralja asirskog.'
And Esaias the son of Amos sent to Ezekias, saying, Thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, I have heard your prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.
21 Evo riječi što je Jahve objavi protiv njega: Prezire te, ruga ti se djevica, kći sionska; za tobom maše glavom kći jeruzalemska.
This [is] the word which the Lord has spoken against him; The virgin daughter of Sion has made light of you, and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
22 Koga si grdio, hulio? Na koga si glasno vikao, ohol pogled dizao? Na Sveca Izraelova!
Whom have you reproached, and whom have you reviled? and against whom have you lifted up your voice, and raised your eyes on high? [Is it] against the Holy One of Israel?
23 Po slugama si svojim vrijeđao Gospoda. Govorio si: s mnoštvom kola ja popeh se na vrh gora, na najviše vrhunce Libanona. Posjekoh mu cedre najviše i čemprese ponajljepše. Dosegoh mu vrh najviši i vrt njegov šumoviti.
By your messengers you has reproached the Lord, and have said, I will go up with the multitude of my chariots, to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Libanus, and I have cut down the height of his cedar, [and] his choice cypresses; and I have come into the midst of the forest and of Carmel.
24 Kopao sam i pio sam vode tuđe; stopalima tad isuših sve rijeke egipatske.
I have refreshed [myself], and have drunk strange waters, and I have dried up with the sole of my foot all the rivers of fortified places.
25 Čuješ li dobro? Odavna to sam snovao, od iskona smišljao, sada to ostvarujem: na tebi je da prometneš gradove tvrde u razvaline.
I have brought about [the matter], I have brought it to a conclusion; and it is come to the destruction of the bands of warlike prisoners, [even of] strong cities.
26 Stanovnici njini, nemoćni, prepadnuti i smeteni, bjehu kao trava u polju, kao mlado zelenilo, kao trava vrh krovova opaljena vjetrom istočnim.
And they that lived in them were weak in hand, they quaked and were confounded, they became [as] grass of the field, or [as] the green herb, the grass [growing on] houses, and that which is trodden down by him that stands [upon it].
27 Znam kad se dižeš i kad sjedaš, kad izlaziš i kad se vraćaš.
But I know your down-sitting, and your going forth, and your rage against me.
28 Jer bjesnio si na me i jer obijest tvoja do ušiju mi dođe, prsten ću ti provuć' kroz nozdrve, uzde stavit' u žvale, vratit ću te putem kojim si i došao!
Because you was angry against me, and your fierceness is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hooks in your nostrils, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
29 A znak nek' ti bude ovo: Ove će se godine jesti što se samo okrÄunÄi, dogodine što samo uzraste, a treće godine sijte i žanjite, sadite vinograde, jedite im rod.
And this shall be a sign to you; eat this year the things that grow of themselves, and in the second year the things which spring up: and in the third year [let there be] sowing, and reaping, and planting of vineyards, and eat you the fruit of them.
30 Preživjeli iz kuće Judine žilje će pustit' u dubinu, plodom rodit' u visinu.
And he shall increase him that has escaped of the house of Juda: and the remnant [shall strike] root beneath, and it shall produce fruit above.
31 Jer će iz Jeruzalema izići Ostatak, Sačuvani s gore Siona. Sve će to učinit' ljubomora Jahvina!
For from Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and he that escapes from the mountain of Sion: the zeal of the Lord of host shall do this.
32 Zato ovo govori Jahve o kralju asirskom: 'U ovaj grad on ući neće, ovamo strijele svoje neće izmetati, k njemu neće ni štit okrenuti, niti oko njega nasipe kopati.
[Is it] not so? Thus says the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city, and he shall not shoot an arrow there, neither shall a shield come against it, neither shall he heap a mound against it.
33 Vratit će se putem kojim je i došao, u grad ovaj neće ući' - Jahvina je riječ.
By the way by which he comes, by it shall he return, and he shall not enter into this city, says the Lord.
34 Grad ću ovaj štitit, spasiti ga, sebe radi i rad sluge svoga Davida.”
And I will defend this city as with a shield, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
35 Te iste noći iziđe Anđeo Jahvin i pobi u asirskom taboru stotinu osamdeset i pet tisuća ljudi. Ujutro kad je valjalo ustati, gle, bijahu ondje sve sami mrtvaci.
And it came to pass at night that the angel of the Lord went forth, an struck in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they rose early in the morning, and, behold, [these were] all dead corpses.
36 Sanherib podiže tabor i ode. Vratio se u Ninivu.
And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians departed, and went and returned, and lived in Nineve.
37 Jednoga dana, dok se klanjao u hramu svoga boga Nisroka, njegovi ga sinovi Adramelek i Sareser ubiše mačem i pobjegoše u zemlju araratsku. Na njegovo se mjesto zakralji sin mu Asar-Hadon.
And it came to pass, while he was worshipping in the house of Meserach his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons struck him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararath; and Asordan his son reigned in his stead.
