2 Kings 19
1 And when king Hezekiah had heard this, he tore his garments, and he covered himself with sackcloth, and he entered the house of the Lord.
希西家王听见，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进了耶和华的殿；
2 And he sent Eliakim, the first ruler of the house, and Shebnah, the scribe, and the elders from the priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz.
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，
3 And they said to him: “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy. The sons are ready to be born, but the woman in labor does not have the strength.
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。
4 Perhaps the Lord, your God, may hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of the Assyrians, his lord, sent so that he would reproach the living God, and rebuke with words, which the Lord, your God, has heard. And so, offer a prayer on behalf of the remnant that has been found.”
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。’”
5 And the servants of king Hezekiah went to Isaiah.
希西家王的臣仆就去见以赛亚。
6 And Isaiah said to them: “So shall you say to your lord. Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid before the face of the words that you have heard, by which the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.
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。
7 Behold, I will send a spirit to him, and he will hear a report, and he will return to his own land. And I will bring him down by the sword in his own land.”
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。’”
8 Then Rabshakeh returned, and he found the king of the Assyrians fighting against Libnah. For he had heard that he had withdrawn from Lachish.
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。
9 And when he had heard from Tirhakah, the king of Ethiopia, saying, “Behold, he has gone out so that he may fight against you,” and when he went forth against him, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying:
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：
10 “So shall you say to Hezekiah, the king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom you trust, lead you astray. And you should not say, ‘Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.’
“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。
11 For you yourself have heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done to all the lands, the manner in which they have laid waste to them. Therefore, how would you alone be able to be freed?
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？
12 Have the gods of the nations freed any of those whom my fathers have destroyed, such as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who were at Telassar?
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？
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena, and of Avva?”
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？’”
14 And so, when Hezekiah had received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and had read it, he ascended to the house of the Lord, and he spread it out before the Lord.
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。
15 And he prayed in his sight, saying: “O Lord, God of Israel, who sits upon the cherubim, you alone are God, over all the kings of the earth. You made heaven and earth.
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。
16 Incline your ear, and listen. Open your eyes, O Lord, and see. And hear all the words of Sennacherib, who sent so that he might reproach the living God before us.
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。
17 Truly, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have devastated all peoples and lands.
耶和华啊，亚述诸王果然使列国和列国之地变为荒凉，
18 And they have cast their gods into the fire. For they were not gods, but instead were the works of men’s hands, out of wood and stone. And so they destroyed them.
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。
19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, bring us salvation from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord God.”
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！”
20 Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I have heard what you beseeched from me, concerning Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians.
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。’
21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken about him: The virgin daughter of Zion has spurned and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind your back.
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。
22 Whom have you reproached, and whom have you blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!
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！
23 By the hand of your servants, you have reproached the Lord, and you have said: ‘By the multitude of my chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the summit of Lebanon. And I have cut down its sublime cedars, and its elect spruce trees. And I have entered even to its limits. And its forest of Carmel,
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。
24 I have cut down. And I drank foreign waters, and I dried up all the enclosed waters with the steps of my feet.’
我已经在外邦挖井喝水； 我必用脚掌踏干埃及的一切河。
25 But have you not heard what I have done from the beginning? From the days of antiquity, I have formed it, and now I have brought it to be. And fortified cities of fighting men will become piles of ruins.
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？
26 And whoever may settle in these, they have trembled, with a weak hand, and they have been confounded. They have become like the hay of the field, and like weeds sprouting on the rooftops, which dry up before they reached maturity.
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。
27 Your habitation, and your exit, and your entrance, and your way, I knew beforehand, along with your fury against me.
你坐下，你出去，你进来， 你向我发烈怒，我都知道。
28 You have been maddened against me, and your arrogance has ascended to my ears. And so, I will place a ring in your nose, and a bit between your lips. And I will lead you back along the way by which you came.
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。
29 But as for you, Hezekiah, this shall be a sign: Eat this year whatever you will find, and in the second year, whatever may spring up of itself. But in the third year, sow and reap; plant vineyards, and eat from their fruit.
“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。
30 And whatever will have been left behind, from the house of Judah, shall send a root downward, and shall bear fruit upward.
犹大家所逃脱余剩的，仍要往下扎根，向上结果。
31 Indeed, a remnant shall go forth from Jerusalem, and what may be saved shall go forth from mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall accomplish this.
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。
32 For this reason, thus says the Lord about the king of the Assyrians: He shall not enter into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor overtake it with the shield, nor encircle it with fortifications.
“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。
33 By the way that he came, so shall he return. And he shall not enter this city, says the Lord.
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。
34 And I will protect this city, and I will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of my servant David.”
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。’”
35 And so it happened that, in the same night, an Angel of the Lord went and struck down, in the camp of the Assyrians, one hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when he had risen up, at first light, he saw all the bodies of the dead. And withdrawing, he went away.
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。
36 And Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, returned and dwelled in Nineveh.
亚述王西拿基立就拔营回去，住在尼尼微。
37 And while he was worshipping in the temple of his god, Nisroch, his sons, Adram-melech and Sharezer, struck him with the sword. And they fled into the land of the Armenians. And Esarhaddon, his son, reigned in his place.
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。
