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].
Quando udì, il re Ezechia si lacerò le vesti, si coprì di sacco e andò nel tempio.
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.
Quindi mandò Eliadìm, il maggiordomo, Sebna lo scriba e gli anziani dei sacerdoti coperti di sacco dal profeta Isaia figlio di Amoz,
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.
perché gli dicessero: «Dice Ezechia: Giorno di angoscia, di castigo e di vergogna è questo, poiché i bambini giungono al punto di venire alla luce, ma manca alla partoriente la forza di partorire.
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].”
Forse il Signore tuo Dio ha udito le parole del gran coppiere, che il re d'Assiria suo signore ha inviato a insultare il Dio vivente e lo castigherà per le parole che il Signore tuo Dio ha udito. Innalza ora una preghiera per quelli che ancora sopravvivono».
5 When the messengers from Hezekiah came to Isaiah,
Così i ministri del re Ezechia andarono da Isaia.
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.
Disse loro Isaia: «Riferite al vostro padrone: Dice il Signore: Non temere le cose che hai udite e con le quali i servitori del re d'Assiria mi hanno ingiuriato.
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.’”
Ecco io manderò in lui uno spirito tale che egli, appena avrà udito una notizia, ritornerà nel suo paese e nel suo paese io lo farò perire di spada».
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].
Il gran coppiere ritornò e trovò il re d'Assiria che assaliva Libna, poiché aveva saputo che si era allontanato da Lachis.
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.
Appena Sennàcherib seppe che Tiraca re di Etiopia era uscito per muovergli guerra, inviò di nuovo messaggeri a Ezechia per dirgli:
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].
«Direte a Ezechia, re di Giuda: Non ti inganni il Dio in cui confidi, dicendoti: Gerusalemme non sarà consegnata nelle mani del re d'Assiria.
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]
Ecco, tu sai ciò che hanno fatto i re di Assiria in tutti i paesi che votarono allo sterminio. Soltanto tu ti salveresti?
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.
Gli dei delle nazioni che i miei padri distrussero hanno forse salvato quelli di Gozan, di Carran, di Rezef e le genti di Eden in Telassàr?
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]!”
Dove sono il re di Amat e il re di Arpad e il re della città di Sefarvàim, di Ena e di Ivva?».
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.
Ezechia prese la lettera dalle mani dei messaggeri e la lesse, poi salì al tempio e, svolgendo lo scritto davanti al Signore,
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.
pregò: «Signore Dio di Israele, che siedi sui cherubini, tu solo sei Dio per tutti i regni della terra; tu hai fatto il cielo e la terra.
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.
Porgi, Signore, l'orecchio e ascolta; apri, Signore, gli occhi e vedi; ascolta tutte le parole che Sennàcherib ha fatto dire per insultare il Dio vivente.
17 “Yahweh, it is true that [the armies of] the kings of Assyria have completely destroyed many nations, and ruined their land.
E' vero, o Signore, che i re d'Assiria hanno devastato tutte le nazioni e i loro territori;
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].
hanno gettato i loro dei nel fuoco; quelli però, non erano dei, ma solo opera delle mani d'uomo, legno e pietra; perciò li hanno distrutti.
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.”
Ora, Signore nostro Dio, liberaci dalla sua mano, perché sappiano tutti i regni della terra che tu sei il Signore, il solo Dio».
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.
Allora Isaia figlio di Amoz mandò a dire a Ezechia: «Dice il Signore, Dio di Israele: Ho udito quanto hai chiesto nella tua preghiera riguardo a Sennàcherib re d'Assiria.
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.
Ti disprezza, ti deride la vergine figlia di Sion. Dietro a te scuote il capo la figlia di Gerusalemme. Questa è la parola che il Signore ha pronunziato contro di lui:
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.
Chi hai insultato e schernito? Contro chi hai alzato la voce e hai elevato, superbo, i tuoi occhi? Contro il Santo di Israele!
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.
Per mezzo dei tuoi messaggeri hai insultato il Signore e hai detto: Con i miei carri numerosi sono salito in cima ai monti, sugli estremi gioghi del Libano: ne ho tagliato i cedri più alti, i suoi cipressi più belli; sono penetrato nel suo angolo più remoto, nella sua foresta lussureggiante.
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]!”’
Io ho scavato e bevuto acque straniere; ho fatto inaridire con la pianta dei miei piedi tutti i torrenti d'Egitto.
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.
Non hai forse udito? Da tempo ho preparato questo; da giorni remoti io l'ho progettato; ora lo eseguisco. Era deciso che tu riducessi un cumulo di rovine le città fortificate;
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.
i loro abitanti impotenti erano spaventati e confusi, erano come l'erba dei campi, come una giovane pianta verde, come l'erba dei tetti, bruciata dal vento d'oriente.
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.
Ti sieda, esca o rientri, io ti conosco.
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].” '
Siccome infuri contro di me e la tua arroganza è salita ai miei orecchi, ti porrò il mio anello alle narici e il mio morso alle labbra; ti farò tornare per la strada, per la quale sei venuto.
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.
Questo ti serva come segno: si mangi quest'anno il frutto dei semi caduti, nell'anno prossimo ciò che nasce da sé, nel terzo anno semineranno e mieteranno, pianteranno vigne e ne mangeranno il frutto.
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].
Il resto della casa di Giuda che scamperà continuerà a mettere radici di sotto e a dar frutto in alto.
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.
Poiché da Gerusalemme uscirà il resto, dal monte Sion il residuo. Lo zelo del Signore farà ciò.
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].
Perciò dice il Signore contro il re d'Assiria: Non entrerà in questa città e non vi lancerà una freccia, non l'affronterà con scudi e non vi costruirà terrapieno.
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!
Ritornerà per la strada per cui è venuto; non entrerà in questa città. Oracolo del Signore.
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.'”
Proteggerò questa città per salvarla, per amore di me e di Davide mio servo».
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!
Ora in quella notte l'angelo del Signore scese e percosse nell'accampamento degli Assiri centottantacinquemila uomini. Quando i superstiti si alzarono al mattino, ecco, quelli erano tutti morti.
36 Then King Sennacherib left and went home to Nineveh, [the capital of Assyria].
Sennàcherib re d'Assiria levò le tende, fece ritorno e rimase a Ninive.
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.
Mentre pregava nel tempio di Nisroch suo dio, Adram-Mèlech e Sarèzer suoi figli l'uccisero di spada, mettendosi quindi al sicuro nel paese di Ararat. Al suo posto divenne re suo figlio Assarhàddon.
