Isaiah 36
1 In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
在希則克雅為王第十四年，亞述王散乃黑黎布上來攻打猶大的一切堅城，而且都佔領了。
2 And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
亞述王從拉基市打發一位大將軍，帶著大軍到耶路撒冷去見希則克雅王。當大將站在上池溝旁，漂布田間的大路上時，
3 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.
出來迎接他的，有希耳克雅的兒子厄里雅金家宰、舍布納書記和阿撒夫的兒子約阿黑史官。
4 The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
大將軍對他們說：「你們去告訴希則克雅說：大王，亞述王這樣說：你所依靠的算得什麼依靠，
5 You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
你想空口說話就是戰略和戰鬥的力量嗎﹖如今你靠誰來背叛我﹖
6 Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
看哪！你依靠的埃及是一根破裂的蘆杖，誰依靠這杖，它就刺傷誰的手，且把手刺透；埃及王法郎對所有依靠他的人就是這樣。
7 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?
假使你們對我說：我們依靠雅威，我們的天主；希則克雅豈不是曾推翻他的高丘和祭壇，且對猶大和耶路撒冷說：你們只應在這祭壇前朝拜﹖
8 Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!
如今你可與我的主上亞述王打賭：我給你兩千匹馬，你是否能給這些馬配上騎兵﹖
9 For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
若不能，你怎敢拒絕我主上最小僕人中的一個軍長，而去依靠埃及的戰車和騎兵﹖
10 So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
現在，我上來攻打毀滅這地，難道不是雅威的意思嗎﹖雅威對我說了：上去，攻打那地，加以毀滅！」
11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
厄里雅金、舍布納和約阿黑對大將軍說：「請你對你的僕人說阿剌美話，因為我們都懂；你不要對我們講猶太話，因為城牆上的百姓能聽到。」
12 But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
大將軍回答說：「難道我的主上打發我來只對你的主上和你講這些話，而不是對那些坐在城牆上，和你們一樣吃自己的糞，喝自己的尿的人，講這些話嗎﹖」
13 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
大將軍於是站起來仍用猶太話大聲喊說：「你們聽大王，亞述王的話罷 ！
14 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.
大王這樣說：你們別上希則克雅的當，他決不能拯救你們！
15 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
也不要讓希則克雅使你們信賴雅威說：雅威必會拯救我們，這城決不會落在亞述王手中！
16 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,
不要聽從希則克雅，因為亞述王曾這樣說了：你們要與我和好，出來歸順我，各人就可以吃自己的葡萄和無花果，各人也可以喝自己井裏的水；
17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
直到我來領你們到一個與你們本國一樣的地方去，一個有五穀和新酒的地方，一個有食糧和葡萄園的地方。
18 Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
切不要上希則克雅的當，聽信他說：雅威必拯救我們！萬國的神中有那一個由亞述王手中拯救了自己的國家﹖
19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
哈瑪特和阿帕得的神在那裏﹖色法瓦因的神在那裏﹖撒瑪黎雅的神在那裏﹖難道他們由我手中拯救了撒瑪黎雅﹖
20 Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
這些地域中的神，有那一個由我手中拯救了自己的國土﹖難道雅威就能由我手中拯救耶路撒冷嗎﹖」
21 But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
他們都不作聲，一句話也沒有回答，因為君王有命：「不要回答他。」
22 Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
希耳克雅的兒子厄里雅金家宰、舍布納書記和阿撒夫的兒兒子約阿黑史官撕裂了衣服，來見希則克雅，將大將軍的話告訴了他。
