2 Kings 19
1 And it comes to pass, at King Hezekiah’s hearing, that he tears his garments, and covers himself with sackcloth, and enters the house of YHWH,
希則克雅王一聽這話，就撕破了自己的衣服，穿上苦衣，走進了上主的殿；
2 and sends Eliakim, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the elderly of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz,
然後打發厄里雅金家宰，舍布納書記和幾位老司祭，穿著苦衣，去見阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞先知，
3 and they say to him, “Thus said Hezekiah: This day [is] a day of distress, and rebuke, and despising; for sons have come to the birth, and there is not power to bring forth.
對他說：「希則克雅這樣說：今天是受苦難，受責罰，受侮辱的日子。因為嬰兒到了要出生的時候，卻沒有產生的力量。
4 It may be your God YHWH hears all the words of the chief of the butlers with which the king of Asshur his lord has sent him to reproach the living God, and has decided concerning the words that your God YHWH has heard, and you have lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.”
但願上主你的天主聽到那大將軍的一切話，就是他的主上亞述王打發他來，辱罵永生的天主所說的話! 願上主你的天主聽了那些話而加以懲罰! 所以請你為剩下的遺民舉行祈禱罷! 」
5 And the servants of King Hezekiah come to Isaiah,
希則克雅王的臣僕來到了依撒意亞前，
6 and Isaiah says to them, “Thus you say to your lord, Thus said YHWH: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me.
依撒意亞就對他們說：「你們要這樣對你們的主上說：上主這樣說：你聽到亞述王的僕人們辱罵我的話，不要害怕!
7 Behold, I am giving a spirit in him, and he has heard a report, and has turned back to his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.”
我必叫他感到一種怕情，使他一聽到某種消息，就返回本國；我要使他在本國內喪身刀下。」
8 And the chief of the butlers turns back and finds the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he has heard that he has journeyed from Lachish.
大將軍回去時，正遇見亞述王去攻打里貝納。原來他已聽說君王離開了拉基士。
9 And he hears concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, “Behold, he has come out to fight with you”; and he turns and sends messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
那時，散乃黑黎布聽人說：雇士王提爾哈卡出來攻打他，就再派使者去見希則克雅，並吩咐說：「
10 “Thus you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God in whom you are trusting lift you up, saying, Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.
你們要這樣對猶大王希則克雅說：不要讓你所依靠的天主哄騙了你說：耶路撒冷決不會落在亞述王手中!
11 Behold, you have heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands—to devote them; and are you delivered?
你必聽說過亞述的列王對各國所行的事，將各國完全消滅了。你還能有救嗎﹖
12 Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed—Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who [are] in Thelassar?
我的祖先所消滅的各民族，如哥倉、哈郎、勒責夫、以及在特拉撒爾的厄登子民，他們的神又何曾救了他們﹖
13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?”
哈瑪特王，阿帕得王，色法瓦因城的王，赫納王和依瓦王，他們現今都在那裡﹖」
14 And Hezekiah takes the letters out of the hand of the messengers and reads them, and goes up to the house of YHWH, and Hezekiah spreads it before YHWH.
希則克雅從使者中接過信來，念了以後，就走進上主的殿，將那信在上主面前展開，
15 And Hezekiah prays before YHWH and says, “O YHWH, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubim, You [are] God Himself—You alone—to all the kingdoms of the earth: You have made the heavens and the earth.
然後，希則克雅懇求上主說：「上主，坐在革魯賓上面的以色列的天主! 惟獨你是地上萬國的天主，你創造了天地。
16 Incline, O YHWH, Your ear, and hear; open, O YHWH, Your eyes, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib with which he has sent him to reproach the living God.
上主，請你側耳傾聽! 上主，求你睜眼垂視，細聽那打發使者辱罵永生天主的散乃黑黎布的話。
17 Truly, O YHWH, kings of Asshur have laid waste the nations and their land,
上主，的確，亞述王曾毀滅了所有的民族和他們的國家，
18 and have put their gods into fire, for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone, and destroy them.
將他們的神像投入火中，因為它們不是神，只是人手造成的木石的作品，所以能被消滅。
19 And now, O our God YHWH, please save us out of his hand, and all kingdoms of the earth know that You [are] YHWH God—You alone.”
但是現今，上主我們的天主，求你拯救我們脫離他的手，使地上萬國都知道：惟獨你是上主，天主! 」
20 And Isaiah son of Amoz sends to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: That which you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur I have heard;
那時，阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞打發人去見希則克雅說：「上主以色列的天主這樣說：你既然論亞述王散乃黑黎布向我懇求，我已經俯聽了你。
21 this [is] the word that YHWH spoke concerning him: Trampled on you—laughed at you Has the virgin daughter of Zion; Shaken the head behind you Has the daughter of Jerusalem!
這就是上主論他所說的話：熙雍的貞女輕視你，嘲笑你；耶路撒冷的女子在你背後搖頭。
22 Whom have you reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up a voice? Indeed, you lift up your eyes on high—Against the Holy One of Israel!
你所辱罵，所詛咒的是誰﹖你提高聲音，仰起眼睛攻擊的是誰﹖是攻擊以色列的聖者。
23 By the hand of your messengers You have reproached the Lord, and say, In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of mountains—The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the lodging of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.
你藉你的使者辱罵了吾主，你說：我用我大批的車輛，登上了叢山的極峰，到黎巴嫩的絕頂，砍伐了其中最高的香柏，最好的青松；衝入了它的最深處，走進了果木的林園。
24 I have dug, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
我掘了井喝了外邦的水，用我的腳掌踏乾了埃及所有的河川。
25 Have you not heard from afar [that] I made it, From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becomes a desolation, Ruinous heaps [are] fortified cities,
難道你沒有聽說嗎﹖很久以前我所計劃的，昔日我所決定的，現在我就在實現，叫你毀壞堅城，化為廢墟，
26 And their inhabitants [are] feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up, They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted grain—before it has risen up!
使城中的居民軟弱無力，驚慌失措，有如田野的青草，有如青綠的嫩苗，有如屋頂被東風吹焦的小草。
27 And your sitting down, and your going out, And your coming in, I have known, And your anger toward Me;
但是，你或起或坐，或出或入，我都知道，
28 Because of your anger toward Me, And your noise—it came up into My ears, I have put My hook in your nose, And My bridle in your lips, And have caused you to turn back In the way in which you came.
因為你對我的暴怒，和你的狂囂已達到我的耳鼓，所以我要把環子穿在你的鼻子上，把轡頭套在你的嘴上，從你來的路上將你牽回去。
29 And this [is] the sign to you, Food of the year [is] the spontaneous growth, And in the second year the self-produced, And in the third year you sow, and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.
這是給你的記號：今年你們要吃自然所生的，明年仍要吃自然所生的，第三年你們就要播種收割，栽種葡萄園，吃園中的果實。
30 And it has continued—The escaped of the house of Judah That has been left—to take root beneath, And has made fruit upward.
猶大家的遺民，仍要向下生根，往上結實，
31 For a remnant goes out from Jerusalem, And an escape from Mount Zion; The zeal of YHWH [of Hosts] does this.
因為剩餘的人將由耶路撒冷而出，逃脫的人將由熙雍山而來：萬軍上主的熱誠必要成就這事。
32 Therefore, thus said YHWH, Concerning the king of Asshur: He does not come into this city, Nor does he shoot an arrow there, Nor does he come before it with shield, Nor does he pour out a mound against it.
為此，上主問亞述王這樣說：他決不會進入這城，決不會向這城放射一箭，決不會持盾臨於城下，也決不會起造土堆攻城。
33 In the way that he comes in—In it he turns back, And to this city he does not come in, A declaration of YHWH—
他必要由來路回去，決不能進入這城：上主的斷語。
34 And I have covered over this city, To save it for My own sake, And for the sake of My servant David.”
為了我自己，為了我的僕人達味，我必要保護拯救這城。」
35 And it comes to pass, in that night, that a messenger of YHWH goes out, and strikes one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of Asshur, and they rise early in the morning, and behold, all of them [are] dead corpses.
當天夜裡，上主的使者出來，在亞述營裡殺了十八萬五千人。清晨人們起來，看見遍地都是死屍。
36 And Sennacherib king of Asshur journeys, and goes, and turns back, and dwells in Nineveh;
亞述王散乃黑黎布於是拔營，起程回國，住在尼尼微。
37 and it comes to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of his god Nisroch, and [his sons] Adramelech and Sharezar have struck him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and his son Esar-Haddon reigns in his stead.
一日，他在自己的神尼色洛客廟內叩拜的時候，他的兒子阿德辣默肋客和沙勒責爾用劍刺殺了他，然後逃往阿辣辣特地方去了；他的兒子厄撒哈冬繼位為王。
