2 Kings 19
1 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].
Hezekiah lengpan hiche thulhutna chu ajahdoh phat’in, apon abot-eh in, khaodip pon akisillin Pakai houin na alut tan ahi.
2 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.
Hichun aman leng inpi vaipo Eliakim, thutanna lekhasun Shebna, thempu lamkai ho abon'un khaodip akisillun Amoz chapa themgao Isaiah kom’ah asollin ahi.
3 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.
Hichehi Hezekiah lengpan asei ahi, “Tunihi lungkham nikho, kisuhjumna le eikinoise na nikho ahi. Hichehi naosen sohlhago’a, ahinla anun nao aso-lhahsah nading atha neijou lou tobang ahi.
4 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].”
Ahinlah Assyria lengpan a sepai lamkai pipuipa ahinsol’a hingjing Pathen chouna a athusei jouse chu Pakai na Pathen in hiche engkalna kiseiho hi ngai hen chuleh ahing nalai keiho chengse dingin Pathen henga hung tao teijin,” ati.
5 When the messengers from Hezekiah came to Isaiah,
Hezekiah noija natong lamkaihon lengpa thuthot Isaiah kom alhut phat’un,
6 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.
Themgaopa chun hitin adonbut in ahi, “NaPakaipau kom’a chun hitin seipeh un, Pakaiyin hitin aseije, Assyria lengpan keidouna thuchavei tah aseiho jeh hin lungkham hihen
7 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.’”
Vetan keimatah in ama douna pan kalah ding ahi, chutengleh hiche lengpa hin thulamleng khat ajah ding ainlam’a kile ding chuteng keiman kathading ahitai,” ati.
8 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].
Hichekah lah chun, Assyria sepai gal lamkai pipu chun Jerusalem akonin Assyria lengpa kom’a kihoutoh dingin agachen ahile, lengpa chu Lachish dalhan Libnah khopi sat dinga ana kondoh in ahi.
9 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.
Hiche joutah chun Ethopia lengpa Tirhakah in asepaite ahin lamkaijin ama sat dingin ahung kon’e tithu ajah phat’in, amachu toh kisatto dinga ache masangin Jerusalem a um Hezekiah chu hiti hin thu athot in,
10 [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].
“Hiche thuhi Judah lengpa Hezekiah a ding ahi, Natahsantah na Pathen chun Assyria lengpan Jerusalem hi alah joulou ding ahi atin, na Pathen chu kilhep lhah sah hihin.
11 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]
Assyria lenghon agot gam leiset ipi alojiu vem, nangin hoitah’a nahe in ahi. Koi hileh adoupen pen hochu asuhchip jeng’u ahi. Achutile nang chun ichom nahideh em?
12 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.
Namdang ho Gozan khopi, Haran khopi, Rezeph khopi le Telassar munna um Eden khopi mite ho chu, a pathen ho uvin ahuhdoh jou uvem? Kei masanga lenghon ana suhgam’u hilou ham?
13 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]!”
Arpad khopi leng Hamath khopi chunga ipi soh em? Ivvah, Hena, Sepharvaim lengho iti gam’ah hiu hitam?” tin aseiyin ahi.
14 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.
Solle ho kona hiche thuthot hi Hezekiah in amuphat’in alan asimtai, Pakai houin na achen Pakai angah aphajallin,
15 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.
Pakai ang’a Hezekiah hitin ataovin, “Vo Vantil lhaving nei Cherubim te kikah a laltounna a tou, Pakai, Israel Pathen, vannoi leiset a lenggam jouse chung’a Pathen nangbou nahi. Nangbouvin van leh leiset nasem ahi.
16 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.
Vo Pakai, kachung uva thilsoh hohi ven, chule Sennacherib in hingjing Pathen douna athuseiho pihi ngaitem’in.
17 “Yahweh, it is true that [the armies of] the kings of Assyria have completely destroyed many nations, and ruined their land.
Pakai, Assyria lenghon namtin vaipi asuhgam’a, agamsung jouseu asuhbei gam’u ahi.
18 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].
Chule amahon hiche namdang hon ahou’u apathen houjeng jong meiya alelut’a ahal gamu ahitai. Ahichu Assyriaten a pathen houchu asuhset uva agovam thei mong’u ahinai, ajeh chu amaho chu mihem khut’a kisem, songle thing’a kisemthu doi ho chu ahibouvui.
19 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.”
Tuhin, O Pakai Pathen, Assyria mite thaneina akonin neihuhdoh un, chutileh vannoi leiset a lenggam ho jousen nangma bou hi Pakai Pathen nahi ahetdiu ahi,” ati.
20 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.
Hiche jouchun Amoz chapa Isaiah in Hezekiah chu thu athot’in, “Hiche hi Pakai Israel Pathen chun asei ahi. Assyria lengpa Sennacherib chungchang’a nataona kajah peh tai.
21 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.
Chule Pakaiyin ama dounan hiti hin thu aseije, “Nungah theng Zion chanu chun nangma navetda in nahin nuisat’in ahi. Jerusalem chanu chun nangma pum chun isahlou tah’in alu nahin hih khum’e,
22 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.
Koiham nangin noise tah’a naphin phin chu, koidouna thu nasap ham? Koiham nangin changmel’a navet chu? Hiche Israel mithengte ahiuve!
23 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.
Nathupole’a pangho’a konin nangman Pakai chu nachouvin, nangin na sakol kangtalaiho mangchan molsangtah tah ho kajouve natin, gamla tah’a um Lebanon chungvum’a um Cedar thingsangpen leh Cyprus thing hoipen jong kasat lhai natin, agamlapen’a aningkoi hojong kaphajou vin, agamsung agilpen jong kakholdoh’in ahi nati.
24 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]!”’
Nam chom ho gamsunga jong twikul kalaidoh’in chuleh atwijong kadonji nati, kakeng teni jong Egypt vadung jouse kachotkang hel’e nati.
25 [‘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.
Ahinlah nangin najah khahlou lai ham? Hiche hi sotna ahitan, sotna kanagon pat ahitai, tuahi kahinso dohsah ding ahi, keiman kul kigenkhum khopi ho nasuhchipna dingleh nasuhgoihel na dinga kanagon ahi.
26 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.
Hijeh a chu amiteho uvin tha anei joulou’u chuleh amahohi kichauva lungboija ahitauve. Amahohi hampa banga thaneijoulou ahiuvin, hampa hung poudohtil lhonal jing thei tobang ahiuve. Amahohi inchunga hampa hungpoudoh til tobang ahin, phat masanga nisan akah lihji tobang ahiuve.
27 “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.
Ahinlah ken nangma hoiya kona nahung, hoilanga nache chuleh hoiya naum kahesoh keiye, chuleh nangin ichangeiya keima douna-a nachon jeng ham tijong kahei.
28 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].” '
Chule hitia hi keima douna a nachelhah jing chujongleh neidou jing naho keima tah’in kajah ahin, keiman nanahkuiya nahkhao kabupeh’a, nanephu tenia kamdal kakoipeh ding nahi, chutengleh nahung kona nalampi mama a chu nakinung le kit ding ahi,” ati.
29 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.
Hichun Isaiah in Hezekiah kom’ah, “Kathusei hi adih’e ti nahetna ding phatah chu hichehi hiding ahi, Tukum sunga hi achamcham'a hung kehdoh muchi gabou naneh diu ahi, akumkit leh hichea kon mama a hung gadoh a chu naneh kit dingu ahi. Ahin kum thum changphat vangleh muchi natua kona chu naki-at ding ahin chuleh lengpilei jong nabol’a aga nanehding ahitai.
30 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].
Chuleh nangle, Judah gamsunga amoh chengse, athimoh ahingdoh chasun chun ajung’u akhothuh chehdiu, chule hung khangtou cheh uva hung kisepdoh ding ahiuve.
31 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.
Ajeh chu Jerusalem ma kona kamite amoh changes leh Zion molla kona ahingdoh ho chengse chutoh hung kithe jalding ahi. Hatchungnung Pakaiyin amikhotona ‘a pan alahna chu ahin tahdoh ding ahi,” ati.
32 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].
Assyria lengpa chungchanga Pakai thusei chu hichehi ahi, “Asepaiteu chu Jerusalem’a lutlou diu ahi, amahon thal changkhat jong ahin kaplut jouloudiu ahi. Amahon a-ompho’u puma kelkot pam’a hi kijot loudiu chujongleh khopi umna dinga leipel aset lou dingu ahi.
33 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!
Lengpa chun ahungna lampi’a hunglut louding ahi,” tin Pakaiyin aseje.
34 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.'”
“Kamin loupina dingleh kasohpa David khohsahna jal’in keiman hiche khopi hi kavenbit’a kahuhdoh ding ahi,” ati.
35 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!
Hiche jan chun Pakai vantil khat Assyriate ngahmun ah achen Assyriate sepai sangsom le sang get le ja nga hochu aga that tan ahi. Ahing doh Assyriate chu jingkah’a agah thodoh uleh mithilong chu muntin’ah amu tauvin ahi.
36 Then King Sennacherib left and went home to Nineveh, [the capital of Assyria].
Assyria lengpa Sennacherib chun ngahmun ahin dalhan, ama gamsunga ahung kiletan ahi. Ama Nineveh khopia ainlam ajonnin hichea chun aumtan ahi.
37 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.
Nikhat hi semthu pathen Nisroch chu ahouin’a aga hou pettah’in, achateni Adrammelech leh Sharezer chun chemjam’in athat lhontan ahi. Amani chu Ararat gamlang’ah ajam lhonin acha dangkhat Esarhaddon kitipa chun Assyria lengmun ahinlo tan ahi.
