2 Kings 19
1 and to be like/as to hear: hear [the] king Hezekiah and to tear [obj] garment his and to cover in/on/with sackcloth and to come (in): come house: temple LORD
When King Hezekiah heard what they reported, he tore his clothes and put on clothes made of rough cloth [because he was very distressed]. Then he went to the temple [to ask God what to do].
2 and to send: depart [obj] Eliakim which upon [the] house: temple and Shebna [the] secretary and [obj] old: elder [the] priest to cover in/on/with sackcloth to(wards) Isaiah [the] prophet son: child Amoz
He summoned Eliakim and Shebna and the (older/most important) priests, who were also wearing clothes made of rough sackcloth, and told them to talk to me.
3 and to say to(wards) him thus to say Hezekiah day: today distress and rebuke and contempt [the] day: today [the] this for to come (in): come son: child till birth and strength nothing to/for to beget
He said to them, “Tell this to Isaiah: ‘King Hezekiah says that we are having great distress/trouble now. [Other nations are causing] us to be insulted and disgraced. We are like [MET] a woman who is about to give birth to a child, but she does not have the strength that she needs to do it.
4 perhaps to hear: hear LORD God your [obj] all word Rabshakeh Rabshakeh which to send: depart him king Assyria lord his to/for to taunt God alive and to rebuke in/on/with word which to hear: hear LORD God your and to lift: loud prayer about/through/for [the] remnant [the] to find
Perhaps Yahweh your God has heard everything that the official from Assyria said. Perhaps he knows that his boss/master, the king of Assyria, sent him to insult the all-powerful God, and that Yahweh will rebuke/punish him for what he said.’ And he requests that you pray for the few of us who are still alive [here in Jerusalem].”
5 and to come (in): come servant/slave [the] king Hezekiah to(wards) Isaiah
When the messengers from Hezekiah came to Isaiah,
6 and to say to/for them Isaiah thus to say [emph?] to(wards) lord your thus to say LORD not to fear from face of [the] word which to hear: hear which to blaspheme youth king Assyria [obj] me
Isaiah said to them, “[Go back to] your boss/master [and] tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says: Those messengers from the king of Assyria have said evil things about me. But you should not be disturbed because of what they said.
7 look! I to give: put in/on/with him spirit and to hear: hear tidings and to return: return to/for land: country/planet his and to fall: kill him in/on/with sword in/on/with land: country/planet his
Listen to this: I will cause Sennacherib to hear a rumor that will worry him, [that a foreign army is about to attack his country]. So he will return to his own country, and there I will cause him to be assassinated by [men using] swords.’”
8 and to return: return Rabshakeh Rabshakeh and to find [obj] king Assyria to fight upon Libnah for to hear: hear for to set out from Lachish
The official from Assyria found out that the King of Assyria [and his army] had left Lachish [city], and that they were attacking Libnah, [which is a nearby city]. So the official went there [to report to him what had happened in Jerusalem].
9 and to hear: hear to(wards) Tirhakah king Cush to/for to say behold to come out: come to/for to fight with you and to return: again and to send: depart messenger to(wards) Hezekiah to/for to say
Soon after that, King Sennacherib received a report that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was leading his army, and was coming to attack them. So before King Sennacherib left Libnah [to fight against the army from Ethiopia], he sent other messengers to King Hezekiah with a letter.
10 thus to say [emph?] to(wards) Hezekiah king Judah to/for to say not to deceive you God your which you(m. s.) to trust in/on/with him to/for to say not to give: give Jerusalem in/on/with hand: power king Assyria
[In the letter] he wrote this to Hezekiah: “Do not allow your god on whom you are relying to deceive you by promising that [the city of] Jerusalem will not be captured by my army [MTY].
11 behold you(m. s.) to hear: hear [obj] which to make: do king Assyria to/for all [the] land: country/planet to/for to devote/destroy them and you(m. s.) to rescue
You have certainly heard what the armies of the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries. Our armies have completely destroyed them. So, (do you think that you will escape?/do not think that your god will save you!) [RHQ]
12 to rescue [obj] them God [the] nation which to ruin father my [obj] Gozan and [obj] Haran and Rezeph and son: descendant/people Eden which in/on/with Telassar
Did the gods of the nations that were about to be destroyed by the armies of the previous kings of Assyria rescue them? Did those gods rescue the people in the Gozan region and in Haran and Rezeph [cities in northern Syria] and the people of Eden who had been (deported/forced to go) to Tel-Assar [city]? None of the gods of those cities were able to rescue them.
13 where? he king Hamath and king Arpad and king city Sepharvaim Hena and Ivvah
What happened to the kings of Hamath and Arpad and Sepharvaim and Ivvah [cities] [RHQ]? [Most of them are dead, and the other people were deported]!”
14 and to take: recieve Hezekiah [obj] [the] scroll: document from hand [the] messenger and to call: read out them and to ascend: rise house: temple LORD and to spread him Hezekiah to/for face: before LORD
Hezekiah took the letter that the messengers gave him, and he read it. Then he went up to the temple and spread out the letter in front of Yahweh.
15 and to pray Hezekiah to/for face: before LORD and to say LORD God Israel to dwell [the] cherub you(m. s.) he/she/it [the] God to/for alone you to/for all kingdom [the] land: country/planet you(m. s.) to make [obj] [the] heaven and [obj] [the] land: country/planet
Then Hezekiah prayed, “Yahweh, the God whom to whom we Israelis belong, you are seated on your throne above the [statues of] creatures with wings, [above the Sacred Chest]. Only you are truly God. You rule all the kingdoms on this earth. You are the one who created [everything on] the earth and [in] the sky.
16 to stretch LORD ear your and to hear: hear to open LORD eye your and to see: see and to hear: hear [obj] word Sennacherib which to send: depart him to/for to taunt God alive
So, Yahweh, please listen to what I am saying, and look [at what is happening]. And listen to what King Sennacherib has said to insult you, the all-powerful God.
17 truly LORD to destroy king Assyria [obj] [the] nation and [obj] land: country/planet their
“Yahweh, it is true that [the armies of] the kings of Assyria have completely destroyed many nations, and ruined their land.
18 and to give: throw [obj] God their in/on/with fire for not God they(masc.) that if: except if: except deed: work hand man tree: wood and stone and to perish them
And they have thrown the idols of those nations into fires and burned them. But [that was not difficult to do, because] they were not gods. They were only statues made of wood and stone, idols that were shaped by humans, [and that is why they were destroyed easily].
19 and now LORD God our to save us please from hand: power his and to know all kingdom [the] land: country/planet for you(m. s.) LORD God to/for alone you
So now, Yahweh our God, please rescue us from the power [MTY] [of the king of Assyria], in order that the people in all the kingdoms of the world will know that you, Yahweh, are the only one who is truly God.”
20 and to send: depart Isaiah son: child Amoz to(wards) Hezekiah to/for to say thus to say LORD God Israel which to pray to(wards) me to(wards) Sennacherib king Assyria to hear: hear
Then Isaiah sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what Yahweh, the God to whom we Israelis belong, says: 'I have heard what you prayed to me about Sennacherib, the king of Assyria.
21 this [the] word which to speak: speak LORD upon him to despise to/for you to mock to/for you virgin daughter Zion after you head to shake daughter Jerusalem
This is what I say to him: “The people of Jerusalem [MTY] despise you and make fun of you. They wag/shake their heads to mock you while you flee from here.
22 [obj] who? to taunt and to blaspheme and upon who? to exalt voice and to lift: look height eye your upon holy Israel
Who do you think that you are despising and ridiculing? Who do you think you were shouting at? Who do you think you were looking at very proudly/arrogantly? It was I, the holy God whom the Israelis worship.
23 in/on/with hand: by messenger your to taunt Lord and to say (in/on/with abundance *Q(K)*) chariot my I to ascend: rise height mountain: mount flank Lebanon and to cut: cut height cedar his choice cypress his and to come (in): come lodging (end his *Q(K)*) wood plantation his
The messengers that you sent made fun of me. You said, 'With my many chariots I have gone to the highest mountains, even to the highest mountains in Lebanon. We have cut down its tallest cedar trees and its nicest pine/cyprus trees. We have been to the most distant/remote peaks and to its dense forests.
24 I to dig and to drink water be a stranger and to dry in/on/with palm: sole beat my all stream Egypt
We have dug wells in other countries and drank water from them. And by marching through [MTY] the streams of Egypt, we dried them all up [HYP]!”’
25 not to hear: hear to/for from distant [obj] her to make: do to/for from day front: old and to form: plan her now to come (in): bring her and to be to/for to crash heap to desolate city to gather/restrain/fortify
[‘But I reply], “Have you never heard that long ago I determined [that those things would happen]? I planned it long ago, and now I have been causing it to happen. I planned that your army would have [the power to] capture many cities that were surrounded by high walls, and cause them to become piles of rubble.
26 and to dwell their short hand: power to to be dismayed and be ashamed to be vegetation land: country and herb grass grass roof and blight to/for face: before standing grain
The people who lived in those cities have no power, and as a result they became dismayed and discouraged. They are as frail as plants and grass in the fields, as frail as grass that grows on the roofs of houses and is scorched by the hot east wind.
27 and to dwell you and to come out: come you and to come (in): come you to know and [obj] to tremble you to(wards) me
“But I know [everything about you]. I know when you are in your house and when you go outside; I also know that you are (raging/speaking very angrily) against me.
28 because to tremble you to(wards) me and secure your to ascend: rise in/on/with ear my and to set: put hook my in/on/with face: nose your and bridle my in/on/with lips your and to return: return you in/on/with way: road which to come (in): come in/on/with her
So, because you have raged against me, and because I have heard [MTY] you speak very proudly/arrogantly, [it will be as though] I will put a hook in your nose and an iron (bit/piece of metal) in your mouth [in order that I can lead you where I want you to go], and I will force you to return [to your own country] on the same road on which you came here, [without conquering Jerusalem].” '
29 and this to/for you [the] sign: indicator to eat [the] year aftergrowth and in/on/with year [the] second offspring and in/on/with year [the] third to sow and to reap and to plant vineyard and to eat fruit their
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “This is what will happen to prove [that I am telling the truth]: This year and next year you [and your people] will be able to harvest only (wild grain/grain that grows without having been planted). But the following year, you [Israelis] will be able to plant grain and harvest it, and to plant vineyards and eat the grapes that you harvest.
30 and to add: again survivor house: household Judah [the] to remain root to/for beneath and to make fruit to/for above [to]
The people [MTY] in Judah who remain alive will prosper and have many children; they will be like plants whose roots go deep down into the ground and which produce much [MET].
31 for from Jerusalem to come out: come remnant and survivor from mountain: mount Zion jealousy (LORD Hosts *Q(K)*) to make: do this
There will be many people in Jerusalem [DOU] who will survive, because Yahweh, the commander of the armies of angels in heaven, wants [PRS] it to happen.
32 to/for so thus to say LORD to(wards) king Assyria not to come (in): come to(wards) [the] city [the] this and not to shoot there arrow and not to meet her shield and not to pour: build siege mound upon her mound
So this is what Yahweh, says about the king of Assyria: ‘His armies will not enter this city; they will not even shoot any arrows into it! His soldiers will not march outside the city gates carrying shields, and they will not even build high mounds of dirt against [the city walls] [to enable them to attack the city].
33 in/on/with way: road which to come (in): come in/on/with her to return: return and to(wards) [the] city [the] this not to come (in): come utterance LORD
Their king will return to his own country on the same road on which he came here. He will not enter this city! [That will happen because] I, Yahweh have said it!
34 and to defend to(wards) [the] city [the] this to/for to save her because me and because David servant/slave my
I will defend this city and prevent it from being destroyed. I will do this for the sake of my own reputation and because of what I promised to King David, who served me well.'”
35 and to be in/on/with night [the] he/she/it and to come out: come messenger: angel LORD and to smite in/on/with camp Assyria hundred eighty and five thousand and to rise in/on/with morning and behold all their corpse to die
That night, an angel from Yahweh went out to where the army of Assyria had put up their tents, and killed 185,000 of their soldiers! When the rest of their soldiers woke up the next morning, they saw that there were corpses everywhere!
36 and to set out and to go: went and to return: return Sennacherib king Assyria and to dwell in/on/with Nineveh
Then King Sennacherib left and went home to Nineveh, [the capital of Assyria].
37 and to be he/she/it to bow house: temple Nisroch God his and Adrammelech (and Sharezer son: child his *Q(K)*) to smite him in/on/with sword and they(masc.) to escape land: country/planet Ararat and to reign Esarhaddon Esarhaddon son: child his underneath: instead him
One day, when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, two of his sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, killed him with their swords. Then they escaped and went to [the] Ararat [region, northwest of Nineveh]. And another of Sennacherib's sons, Esarhaddon, became the king of Assyria.
