2 Wa 18
1 Alò, li te vin rive nan twazyèm ane Osée, fis a Éla a, wa Israël la ke Ézéchias, fis Achaz la, wa Juda a, te devni wa a.
Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Li te gen venn-senkan lè l te devni wa e li te renye pandan vent-nèf ane Jérusalem. Non manman li se te Abi, fi a Zacharie a.
He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
3 Li te fè sa ki bon nan zye SENYÈ a, selon tout sa ke zansèt li yo, David te konn fè.
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.
4 Li te retire wo plas yo, li te kraze pilye sakre yo, e li te koupe desann Astarté la. Anplis, li te kraze an mòso sèpan an bwonz ke Moïse te fè a, paske jis rive nan jou sa yo, fis Israël yo te konn brile lansan pou li; epi li te rele Nehuschtan.
He removed the high places, broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
5 Li te mete konfyans li nan SENYÈ a, Bondye Israël la, jiskaske, apre li, pa t gen tankou li nan tout wa Juda yo, ni nan sila ki te avan l yo.
He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel, so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.
6 Paske li te kenbe fèm a SENYÈ a. Li pa t varye nan swiv Li, men li te kenbe kòmandman ke SENYÈ a te kòmande Moïse yo.
For he joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.
7 Epi SENYÈ a te avèk li. Nenpòt kote li te ale, li te reyisi. Li te fè rebèl kont wa a Assyrie a e li pa t sèvi li.
Yahweh was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.
8 Li te venk Filisten yo soti rive nan Gaza avèk teritwa li, soti nan tou kay gad yo, jis rive nan gwo vil fòtifye a.
He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
9 Alò, nan katriyèm ane Wa Ézéchias la, ki te setyèm ane Osée, fis a Éla a, wa Israël la, Salmanasar, wa Assyrie a, te monte kont Samarie, e te fè syèj kont li.
In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.
10 Nan fen twazan, yo te kaptire li, epi nan sizyèm ane Ézéchias la, ki te nan nevyèm ane Osée a, wa Israël la, Samarie te vin kaptire.
At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11 Konsa, wa Assyrie a te pote Israël ale an egzil nan Assyrie, e li te mete yo nan Chalach sou rivyè Gozan nan vil a Mèdes yo,
The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
12 paske yo pa t obeyi vwa a SENYÈ a, Bondye pa yo a, men yo te transgrese akò pa Li a, menm tout sa ke Moïse, sèvitè SENYÈ a, te kòmande yo. Yo pa t koute yo, ni fè yo.
because they didn’t obey Yahweh their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it or do it.
13 Alò, nan katòzyèm ane a Wa Ézéchias, Sanchérib la, wa Assyrie a te vin monte kont tout vil fòtifye Juda yo, e li te sezi yo.
Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
14 Alò, Ézéchias, wa Juda a te voye kote wa Assyrie a nan Lakis. Li te di: “Mwen te fè mal. Rale bak sòti sou mwen; nenpòt sa ke ou mande m peye, m ap sipòte l.” Pou sa, wa Assyrie a te fè demand a Ézéchias pou peye twa san talan ajan avèk trant talan lò.
Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have offended you. Withdraw from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15 Ézéchias te bay tout ajan ki te twouve nan kay SENYÈ a ak nan kès lakay wa a.
Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in Yahweh’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house.
16 Nan tan sa a, Ézéchias te koupe retire lò nan pòt tanp SENYÈ a, avèk chanbrann pòt ke Ézéchias, wa Juda a, te kouvri a e li te bay li a wa Assyrie a.
At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of Yahweh’s temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
17 Epi wa Assyrie a te voye Tharthan, Rab-Saris avèk Rabschaké sòti nan Lakis avèk yon gwo lame rive kote Ézéchias Jérusalem. Konsa, yo te monte pou te rive Jérusalem. Epi lè yo te monte, yo te rive e te kanpe kote kanal souteren an, nan ma sous dlo piwo a, ki te sou chemen chan lesiv la.
The king of Assyria sent Tartan, Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
18 Lè yo te rele wa a, Élikiam, fis a Hilkija a, ki te sou tout kay la ak Schebna, grefye a ak Joach, fis a Asaph la, achivist la, te parèt kote yo.
When they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came out to them.
19 Epi Rabschaké te di yo: “Pale koulye a a Ézéchias: ‘Konsa pale gran wa a, wa Assyrie a: “Ki kalite konfyans sa ke ou genyen an?
Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
20 Ou di nou (malgre se pawòl vid yo ye): ‘Mwen gen konsèy avèk pwisans pou fè lagè.’ Alò, sou kilès ou depann, pou ou vin fè rebèl kont mwen an?
You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
21 Alò, veye byen, ou depann de baton a wozo kraze sa a, sou Égypte menm. Sou sila si yon nonm apiye, l ap fonse antre nan men l e pèse l nèt. Se konsa, Farawon va ye pou tout sila ki depann de li yo.
Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. 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 on him.
22 Men si ou di mwen: ‘Nou mete konfyans nan SENYÈ a, Bondye nou an’, se pa li menm pou sila Ézéchias te retire wo plas avèk lotèl yo, e ki te di a Juda avèk Jérusalem: ‘Nou va adore devan lotèl sa a Jérusalem?’
But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh 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 in Jerusalem’?
23 Pou sa, vini, fè yon antant avèk mèt mwen, wa a Assyrie a, e mwen va ba ou de mil cheval, si ou kab menm mete moun sou do yo.
Now therefore, please give pledges 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.
24 Kijan ou kab reziste a menm youn nan pi piti a sèvitè mèt mwen yo e depann de Égypte pou cha ak chevalye?
How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
25 Èske se san soutyen SENYÈ a ke m vin monte kont plas sa a pou detwi li? SENYÈ a te di m ‘Monte kont plas sa a pou detwi l.’”’”
Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”’”
26 Alò Éliakim, fis a Hilkija a, avèk Schebna ak Joach te di a Rabschaké: “Pale koulye a a sèvitè ou yo an Arameyen, paske nou konprann li. Pa pale avèk nou an Jideyen nan zòrèy a moun ki sou mi yo.”
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
27 Men Rabschaké te di yo: “Èske mèt mwen an te voye m sèlman a mèt pa w la pou pale pawòl sila yo, pa pou mesye ki chita sou mi yo, ki va manje pwòp watè pa yo e bwè dlo pipi pa yo ansanm avè w?”
But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?”
28 Epi Rabschaké te kanpe, li te kriye avèk yon vwa fò an Jideyen. Li te di: “Tande pawòl gran wa a, wa Assyrie a!
Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
29 Konsa pale wa a! ‘Pa kite Ézéchias twonpe nou, paske li p ap kab delivre nou pou sòti nan men m.
The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.
30 Ni pa kite Ézéchias mennen nou pou mete konfyans nan SENYÈ a, pou l di: “SENYÈ a va anverite delivre nou, e vil sa a p ap livre nan men a gran wa a Assyrie a.”
Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
31 Pa koute Ézéchias.’ Paske konsa pale wa Assyrie a: ‘Fè lapè nou avèk mwen e sòti vin kote mwen. Manje nou chak nan pwòp chan rezen pa nou, nou chak pye fig mi etranje pa nou e nou chak nan pwòp dlo sitèn pa nou,
Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree, and everyone drink water from his own cistern;
32 jiskaske mwen rive pou pran nou ale nan yon lòt peyi, yon peyi ak sereyal avèk diven nèf, yon peyi avèk bwa doliv ak siwo myèl, pou nou kapab viv e pa mouri.’ Men pa koute Ézéchias lè li mal dirije nou pou di: ‘SENYÈ a va delivre nou.’
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, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah when he persuades you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.”
33 Èske okenn nan dye a peyi sila yo te delivre peyi pa yo a devan men wa a Assyrie a?
Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
34 Kote dye a Hamath yo oswa Arpad yo? Kote dye a Sepharvaïm yo, oswa Héna avèk Ivva yo? Èske yo te delivre Samarie pou l sòti nan men m?
Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
35 Kilès pami tout dye a peyi yo ki te delivre peyi pa yo devan men m, pou SENYÈ a ta dwe delivre Jérusalem soti nan men m?”
Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”
36 Men pèp la te rete an silans e pa t reponn menm yon mo; paske lòd a wa a se te “Pa reponn li”.
But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
37 Epi Éliakim, fis a Hilkija a, ki te sou tout kay la, Schebna, grefye a ak Joach, fis a Asaph la, achivist la, te vin kote Ézéchias avèk rad yo tou chire pou te pale li pawòl a Rabschaké yo.
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him Rabshakeh’s words.
