Isaiah 36
1 Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
| وَفِي السَّنَةِ الرَّابِعَةِ عَشْرَةَ مِنْ حُكْمِ الْمَلِكِ حَزَقِيَّا، اجْتَاحَ سَنْحَارِيبُ مَلِكُ أَشُورَ جَمِيعَ مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا الْمُحَصَّنَةِ وَاسْتَوْلَى عَلَيْهَا. | ١ |
2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.
| وَوَجَّهَ مَلِكُ أَشُورَ رَبْشَاقَى (أَيْ الْقَائِدَ العَامَّ) مِنْ لَخِيشَ إِلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ إِلَى الْمَلِكِ حَزَقِيَّا عَلَى رَأْسِ جَيْشٍ جَرَّارٍ، فَوَقَفَ عِنْدَ قَنَاةِ الْبِرْكَةِ الْعُلْيَا عَلَى طَرِيقِ حَقْلِ الْقَصَّارِ. | ٢ |
3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder came out to him.
| فَخَرَجَ لِلِقَائِهِ كُلٌّ مِنْ أَلْيَاقِيمَ بْنِ حِلْقِيَّا مُدِيرِ شُؤُونِ الْقَصْرِ، وَشَبْنَةَ الْكَاتِبِ وَيُوآخَ بْنِ آسَافَ الْمُسَجِّلِ. | ٣ |
4 Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
| فَقَالَ لَهُمُ رَبْشَاقَى الْقَائِدُ الْعَامُّ: «بَلِّغُوا حَزَقِيَّا: هَذَا مَا يَقُولُهُ الْمَلِكُ الْعَظِيمُ، مَلِكُ أَشُّورَ: عَلَى مَاذَا تَتَّكِلُ؟ | ٤ |
5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
| أَظَنَنْتَ أَنَّ مُجَرَّدَ الْكَلامِ يُشَكِّلُ خُطَّةً وَقُوَّةً لِخَوْضِ الْحَرْبِ؟ عَلَى مَنِ اعْتَمَدْتَ حَتَّى تَمَرَّدْتَ عَلَيَّ؟ | ٥ |
6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
| أَنْتَ تَتَّكِلُ عَلَى عُكَّازِ هَذِهِ القَصَبَةِ الْمَرْضُوضَةِ مِصْرَ، الَّتِي تَثْقُبُ كَفَّ كُلِّ مَنْ يَتَوَكَّأُ عَلَيْهَا. هَكَذَا يَكُونُ فِرْعَوْنُ مَلِكُ مِصْرَ لِكُلِّ مَنْ يَتَوَكَّأُ عَلَيْهِ. | ٦ |
7 But if you tell me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?”
| وَإذَا قُلْتُمْ لِي: إِنَّكُمْ تَوَكَّلْتُمْ عَلَى الرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ، أَلَيْسَ هُوَ الَّذِي هَدَمَ حَزَقِيَّا مُرْتَفَعَاتِهِ وَمَذَابِحَهُ، وَأَمَرَ شَعْبَ يَهُوذَا وَأَهْلَ أُورُشَلِيمَ أَنْ يَسْجُدُوا فَقَطْ أَمَامَ الْمَذْبَحِ الْقَائِمِ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ؟ | ٧ |
8 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
| وَالآنَ لِيَعْقِدْ حَزَقِيَّا رَهَاناً مَعَ سَيِّدِي مَلِكِ أَشُورَ: فَأُعْطِيَكَ أَلْفَي فَرَسٍ إِنِ اسْتَطَعْتَ أَنْ تَجِدَ لَهَا فُرْسَاناً يَمْتَطُونَهَا! | ٨ |
9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
| فَكَيْفَ يُمْكِنُكَ أَنْ تَصُدَّ قَائِداً وَاحِداً مِنْ أَقَلِّ قَادَةِ سَيِّدِي شَأْناً فِي حِينِ أَنَّكَ تَعْتَمِدُ عَلَى مِصْرَ لإِمْدَادِكَ بِالْمَرْكَبَاتِ وَالْفُرْسَانِ؟ | ٩ |
10 Have I come up now without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’”
| ثُمَّ هَلْ مِنْ غَيْرِ مَشُورَةِ الرَّبِّ زَحَفْتُ عَلَى هَذِهِ الدِّيَارِ لأُدَمِّرَهَا؟ لَقَدْ قَالَ لِي الرَّبُّ: هَاجِمْ هَذِهِ الدِّيَارَ وَخَرِّبْهَا». | ١٠ |
11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
| فَقَالَ أَلِيَاقِيمُ وَشَبْنَةُ وَيُوآخُ لِرَبْشَاقَى: «خَاطِبْ عَبِيدَكَ بِالأَرَامِيَّةِ لأَنَّنَا نَفْهَمُهَا، وَلا تُكَلِّمْنَا بِاللُّغَةِ الْيَهُودِيَّةِ عَلَى مَسْمَعِ الشَّعْبِ الْمُتَجَمِّعِ عَلَى السُّورِ». | ١١ |
12 But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
| فَأَجَابَ رَبْشَاقَى: «أَتَظُنُّ أَنَّ سَيِّدِي قَدْ أَرْسَلَنِي إِلَى سَيِّدِكَ وَإِلَيْكَ فَقَطْ لِكَيْ أَتَحَدَّثَ بِهَذَا الْكَلامِ؟ أَلَيْسَ هَذَا الْكَلامُ أَيْضاً مُوَجَّهاً إِلَى الرِّجَالِ الْمُتَجَمِّعِينَ عَلَى السُّورِ، الَّذِينَ سَيَأْكُلُونَ مِثْلَكُمْ بِرَازَهُمْ وَيَشْرَبُونَ بَوْلَهُمْ؟» | ١٢ |
13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
| ثُمَّ وَقَفَ القَائِدُ الْعَامُّ وَنَادَى بِأَعْلَى صَوْتِهِ قَائِلاً بِالْيَهُودِيَّةِ: «اسْمَعُوا كَلامَ الْمَلِكِ الْعَظِيمِ مَلِكِ أَشُورَ: | ١٣ |
14 The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.
| لَا يَخْدَعَنَّكُمْ حَزَقِيَّا لأَنَّهُ عَاجِزٌ عَنْ إِنْقَاذِكُمْ، | ١٤ |
15 Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’
| وَلا يُقْنِعَنَّكُمْ بِالاتِّكَالِ عَلَى الرَّبِّ قَائِلاً: إِنَّ الرَّبَّ حَتْماً يُنْقِذُنَا، وَلَنْ يَسْتَوْلِيَ مَلِكُ أَشُورَ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْمَدِينَةِ. | ١٥ |
16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;
| لَا تُصْغُوا إِلَيْهِ، لأَنَّهُ هَكَذَا يَقُولُ مَلِكُ أَشُّورَ: اعْقِدُوا مَعِي صُلْحاً وَاسْتَسْلِمُوا إِلَيَّ فَيَأْكُلَ عِنْدَئِذٍ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْكُمْ مِنْ كَرْمِهِ وَمِنْ تِينَتِهِ، وَيَشْرَبَ مِنْ مَاءِ بِئْرِهِ، | ١٦ |
17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
| إِلَى أَنْ آتِيَ وَأَنْقُلَكُمْ إِلَى أَرْضٍ كَأَرْضِكُمْ، أَرْضِ حِنْطَةٍ وَخَمْرٍ وَخُبْزٍ وَكُرُومٍ. | ١٧ |
18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
| فَلا يَغُرَّنَّكُمْ حَزَقِيَّا بِقَوْلِهِ: إِنَّ الرَّبَّ يُنْقِذُنَا. هَلْ أَنْقَذَ أَحَدُ آلِهَةِ الأُمَمِ أَرْضَ شَعْبِهِ مِنْ يَدِ مَلِكِ أَشُورَ؟ | ١٨ |
19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
| أَيْنَ آلِهَةُ حَمَاةَ وَأَرْفَادَ؟ أَيْنَ آلِهَةُ سَفَرْوَايِمَ؟ هَلْ أَنْقَذَتِ السَّامِرَةَ مِنْ يَدِي؟ | ١٩ |
20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”
| مَنْ مِنْ كُلِّ آلِهَةِ هَذِهِ الْبِلادِ اسْتَطَاعَ أَنْ يُنْقِذَ أَرْضَهُ مِنْ يَدِي؟ فَكَيْفَ يُنْقِذُ الرَّبُّ أُورُشَلِيمَ مِنِّي؟» | ٢٠ |
21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
| فَاعْتَصَمُوا بِالصَّمْتِ وَلَمْ يُجِيبُوا بِكَلِمَةٍ، لأَنَّ الْمَلِكَ أَمَرَ بِعَدَمِ الرَّدِّ عَلَيْهِ. | ٢١ |
22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
| وَرَجَعَ أَلِيَاقِيمُ بْنُ حِلْقِيَّا مُدِيرُ شُؤُونِ الْقَصْرِ وَشَبْنَةُ الْكَاتِبُ وَيُوآخُ بْنُ آسَافَ الْمُسَجِّلُ إِلَى حَزَقِيَّا بِثِيَابٍ مُمَزَّقَةٍ وَأَبْلَغُوهُ كَلامَ الْقَائِدِ الأَشُورِيِّ. | ٢٢ |
