2 Kings 20
1 In those days, Hezekiah was sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, came and said to him: “Thus says the Lord God: Instruct your house, for you will die, and not live.”
在那些日子內，希則克雅患病垂危，阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞來看他，對他說：「上主這樣說：快料理你的家務，因為你快要死，不能久活了。」
2 And he turned his face to the wall, and he prayed to the Lord, saying:
希則克雅就轉面向牆，懇求上主說：「
3 “I beg you, O Lord, I beseech you, remember how I have walked before you in truth, and with a perfect heart, and how I have done what is pleasing before you.” And then Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.
上主，求你記憶我如何懷著忠誠齊全的心，在你面前行走；如何作了你視為正義的事。」然後希則克雅放聲大哭。
4 And before Isaiah departed from the middle part of the atrium, the word of the Lord came to him, saying:
依撒意亞出來，還沒有走到中院，上主的話傳於他說：「
5 “Return and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David: I have heard your prayer, and I have seen your tears. And behold, I have healed you. On the third day, you shall ascend to the temple of the Lord.
你回去，告訴我人民的領袖希則克雅說：上主，你祖先達味的天主這樣說：我聽見了你的祈禱，看見了你的眼淚。看，我必要治好你，第三天你就能上上主的殿。
6 And I will add fifteen years to your days. Then too, I will free you and this city from the hand of the king of the Assyrians. And I will protect this city for my own sake, and for the sake of my servant David.”
我要在你的壽數上多加十五年，且由亞述王手中拯救你和這座城；為了我自己和我的僕人達味，我必要保護這座城。」
7 And Isaiah said, “Bring me a mass of figs.” And when they had brought it, and they had placed it on his sore, he was healed.
依撒意亞遂吩咐說：「拿一塊無花果餅來。」人就拿來，貼在瘡口上；君王就好了。
8 But Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will ascend to the temple of the Lord on the third day?”
希則克雅對依撒意亞說：「有什麼徵兆，上主要治好我，第三天我就能上上主的殿﹖」
9 And Isaiah said to him: “This will be the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do the word that he has spoken: Do you wish that the shadow may ascend ten lines, or that it may turn back for the same number of degrees?”
依撒意亞回答說：「這就是上主給你的徵兆，上主必實踐他所說的話：你要日影向前進十度，還是要往後退十度﹖」
10 And Hezekiah said: “It is easy for the shadow to increase for ten lines. And so I do not wish that this be done. Instead, let it turn back for ten degrees.”
希則克雅答說：「日影向前進十度太容易，我不要；我要日影倒退十度。」
11 And so the prophet Isaiah called upon the Lord. And he led back the shadow, along the lines by which it had already descended on the sundial of Ahaz, in reverse for ten degrees.
先知依撒意亞呼求上主，上主就使射在阿哈次日晷上的日影倒退了十度。
12 At that time, Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, the king of the Babylonians, sent letters and gifts to Hezekiah. For he had heard that Hezekiah had been ill.
那時，巴比倫王巴拉丹的兒子默洛達客捌拉丹派人來見希則克雅，呈上書信和禮物，因為他聽說希則克雅患病又好了。
13 Now Hezekiah rejoiced at their arrival, and so he revealed to them the house of aromatic spices, and the gold and silver, and the various pigments and ointments, and the house of his vessels, and all that he was able to have in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominions, that Hezekiah did not show to them.
希則克雅非常高興，就叫使者參觀自己的寶庫、金銀、香料、珍膏和武器庫，以及他府庫內所有的財寶：凡他宮中和全國內所有的，希則克雅沒有一樣不叫他們不看的。
14 Then the prophet Isaiah came to king Hezekiah, and said to him: “What did these men say? And from where did they come to you?” And Hezekiah said to him, “They came to me from Babylon, from a far away land.”
依撒意亞先知遂來見希則克雅，對他說：「這些人說了什麼﹖他們是從什麼地方到你這裡來的﹖」希則克雅回答說：「他們是從遠方，從巴比倫來的。」
15 And he responded, “What did they see in your house?” And Hezekiah said: “They saw all things whatsoever that are in my house. There is nothing in my treasuries that I did not show to them.”
先知又問說：「他們在你宮中看見了什麼﹖」希則克雅回答說：「凡我宮中所有的，他們都看了；凡我府庫內所有的，沒有一樣我不叫他們不看的。」
16 And so Isaiah said to Hezekiah: “Listen to the word of the Lord.
依撒意亞遂對希則克雅說：「你聽上主的話罷!
17 Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and all that your fathers have stored up even to this day, will be carried away to Babylon. Nothing at all shall remain, says the Lord.
日子要到，凡你宮中所有的，及你祖先直到今日所積蓄的，都要被帶到巴比倫去，什麼也不會留下：上主說。
18 Then too, they will take from your sons, who will go forth from you, whom you will conceive. And they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
此外，由你所出，即你所生的子孫中也有一些要被擄去，在巴比倫王宮內充當太監。
19 Hezekiah said to Isaiah: “The word of the Lord, which you have spoken, is good. Let peace and truth be in my days.”
希則克雅對依撒意亞說：「你所說的上主的話是合理的!」繼而說：「惟願我有生之日有平安，有安全! 」
20 Now the rest of the words of Hezekiah, and all his strength, and how he made a pool, and an aqueduct, and how he brought waters into the city, have these not been written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Judah?
希則克雅其餘的事蹟，他的英勇和他怎樣鑿池築溝，引水入城的事，都記載在猶大列王實錄上。
21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers. And Manasseh, his son, reigned in his place.
希則克雅與他的列祖同眠，他的兒子默納舍繼位為王。
