2 Wa 19
1 Lè Ézéchias te tande sa, li te chire rad li. Li te kouvri kò li avèk twal sak e li te antre lakay SENYÈ a.
And it came to pass when king Ezekias heard it, that he tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth, an went into the house of the Lord.
2 Epi li te voye Éliakim ki te sou tout kay avèk Schebna, grefye a ak ansyen pami prèt yo, kouvri avèk twal sak kote Ésaïe, pwofèt la, fis a Amots la.
And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests, clothed with sackcloth, to Esaias the prophet the son of Amos.
3 Yo te di li: “Konsa pale Ézéchias: ‘Jou sa a se yon jou gwo twoub, chatiman, ak abandon; pwiske pitit yo vin parèt pou akouche, men pa gen fòs pou fè l.
And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias, This day [is] a day of tribulation, and rebuke, and provocation: for the children are come to the travail-[pangs], but the mother has no strength.
4 Petèt SENYÈ a, Bondye ou a, va tande tout pawòl a Rabschaké yo ke mèt li a, wa Assyrie a, te voye pou repwoche Bondye Vivan an e va repwoche pawòl ke SENYÈ a, Bondye ou a, te tande a. Pou sa, ofri lapriyè pou retay ki toujou rete a.’”
Peradventure the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rapsakes, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God and to revile him with the words which the Lord your God has heard: and you shall offer [your] prayer for the remnant that is found.
5 Pou sa, sèvitè a wa Ézéchias yo te vin kote Ésaïe.
So the servants of king Ezekias came to Esaias.
6 Ésaïe te di yo: “Konsa nou va pale a mèt nou an: ‘Konsa pale SENYÈ a: “Pa krent akoz pawòl ke ou te tande yo, avèk sila sèvitè a wa Assyrie yo te blasfeme Mwen yo.
And Esaias said to them, Thus shall you say to your master, Thus says the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which you have heard, wherewith the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed.
7 Veye byen, mwen va mete yon lespri nan li pou l tande yon fo nouvèl pou retounen nan pwòp peyi pa li. Epi Mwen va fè l tonbe pa nepe nan pwòp peyi li.”’”
Behold, I send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and shall return to his own land; and I will overthrow him with the sword in his own land.
8 Alò, Rabschaké te retounen e te twouve wa Assyrie a t ap goumen kont Libna; paske li te tande ke li te fin kite Lakis.
So Rapsakes returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Lobna: for he heard that he [had] departed from Lachis.
9 Lè l te tande sa pa Tirhaka, wa Ethiopie a, vwala, li vin parèt pou goumen kont ou, li te ankò voye mesaje yo kote Ézéchias e te di:
And he heard concerning Tharaca king of the Ethiopians, saying, Behold, he is come forth to fight with you: and he returned, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,
10 “Konsa ou va pale a Ézéchias, wa Juda a, ‘Pa kite Bondye ou a nan Sila ou mete konfyans ou an twonpe ou e di: “Jérusalem p ap antre nan men a wa Assyrie a.”
Let not your God on whom you trust encourage you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.
11 Gade byen, ou konn tande sa ke wa Assyrie a te fè a tout peyi yo, destriksyon konplèt. Èske se konsa ke ou va delivre a?
Behold, you have heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done in all the lands, to waste them utterly: and shall you be delivered?
12 Èske dye a nasyon sila yo ke zansèt mwen yo te detwi yo, te delivre yo, menm? Gozan, Charan, Retseph, avèk fis a Éden ki te Telassar yo?
Have the gods of the nations at all delivered them, whom my fathers destroyed; both Gozan, and Charran, and Raphis, and the sons of Edem who were in Thaesthen?
13 Kibò wa Hamath la ye, wa Arpad la, wa gran vil Sepharvaïm nan, Henna, avèk Ivva?’”
Where is the king of Haemath, and the king of Arphad? and where is the king of the city of Seppharvaim, of Ana, and Aba?
14 Alò, Ézéchias te pran lèt la soti nan men a mesaje yo e li te li li. Li te monte lakay SENYÈ a, e li te louvri li devan SENYÈ a.
And Ezekias took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and he went up to the house of the Lord, and Ezekias spread it before the Lord,
15 Ézéchias te priye devan SENYÈ a, e te di: “O SENYÈ, Bondye Israël la, ki chita sou twòn li pami cheriben yo, Ou se Bondye a, Ou sèl Ou pami tout wayòm sou latè yo. Ou te fè syèl la avèk tè a.
and said, O Lord God of Israel that dwell over the cherubs, you are the only god in all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
16 Panche zòrèy Ou, O SENYÈ a pou tande. Ouvri zye Ou O SENYÈ pou wè. Koute pawòl a Sanchérib yo, ke li te voye pou repwoche Bondye Vivan an.
Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear: open, Lord, your eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherim, which he has sent to reproach the living God.
17 Anverite, O SENYÈ, wa Assyrie yo te devaste nasyon yo avèk peyi pa yo,
For truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have wasted the nations,
18 epi yo te jete dye pa yo nan dife, paske se pa dye yo ye, men se zèv a men lèzòm yo, bwa avèk wòch. Pou sa, yo te detwi yo.
and have cast their gods into the fire: because they are no gods, but the works of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.
19 Alò, O SENYÈ, Bondye nou an, mwen priye Ou, delivre nou nan men li pou tout wayòm sou latè yo kab konnen Ou sèl, O SENYÈ, se Bondye a.”
And now, O Lord our God, deliver us out of his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall know that you alone [are] the Lord God.
20 Epi Ésaïe, fis a Amots la te voye kote Ézéchias e te di: “Konsa pale SENYÈ a, Bondye Israël la: ‘Akoz ou te priye a Mwen pou Sanchérib, wa Assyrie a, Mwen te tande.”
And Esaias the son of Amos sent to Ezekias, saying, Thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, I have heard your prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.
21 Sa se pawòl ke SENYÈ a te pale kont li an: “Li te meprize ou e moke ou, Fi vyèj a Sion an. Li te souke tèt li dèyè do ou, Fi a Jérusalem nan!
This [is] the word which the Lord has spoken against him; The virgin daughter of Sion has made light of you, and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
22 Se kilès ou te repwoche e blasfeme a? Epi kont kilès ou te leve vwa ou a, avèk ògèy, ou te leve zye ou? Kont Sila ki Sen a Israël la?
Whom have you reproached, and whom have you reviled? and against whom have you lifted up your voice, and raised your eyes on high? [Is it] against the Holy One of Israel?
23 Pa mesaje ou yo, ou te repwoche SENYÈ a. Ou te di: “Avèk anpil cha mwen yo, mwen te rive sou wotè a mòn yo. Jis rive nan kote pi izole nan Liban an, mwen va koupe gwo bwa sèd li yo, avèk bwa pichpen pi chwazi li yo. Epi mwen va antre jis nan lojman pi izole yo, nan pi gran rakbwa ki te genyen yo.
By your messengers you has reproached the Lord, and have said, I will go up with the multitude of my chariots, to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Libanus, and I have cut down the height of his cedar, [and] his choice cypresses; and I have come into the midst of the forest and of Carmel.
24 Mwen te fouye pwi yo e te bwè dlo etranje li yo, Epi avèk pla pye mwen, mwen te seche tout rivyè Égypte yo.”
I have refreshed [myself], and have drunk strange waters, and I have dried up with the sole of my foot all the rivers of fortified places.
25 Èske ou pa t tande? Depi lontan Mwen te fè l; Depi nan tan ansyen yo, Mwen te planifye l. Koulye a, Mwen gen tan fè l vin rive, ke ou ta fè vil fòtifye yo vin pil ranblè.
I have brought about [the matter], I have brought it to a conclusion; and it is come to the destruction of the bands of warlike prisoners, [even of] strong cities.
26 Pou sa, abitan pa yo te manke fòs. Yo te deranje e te vin wont nèt. Yo te tankou zèb chan, tankou zèb vèt, tankou zèb sou twati kay ki vin brile avan li kab grandi.
And they that lived in them were weak in hand, they quaked and were confounded, they became [as] grass of the field, or [as] the green herb, the grass [growing on] houses, and that which is trodden down by him that stands [upon it].
27 Men M konnen chita ou, sòti avèk antre pa ou, ak laraj ke ou konn fè kont Mwen.
But I know your down-sitting, and your going forth, and your rage against me.
28 Epi akoz laraj ou kont Mwen, akoz awogans ou vin monte nan zòrèy Mwen, pou sa, mwen va mete zen Mwen nan nen ou, ak brid Mwen, pou antre nan lèv ou, epi Mwen va vire ou fè ou fè bak pa menm chemen ke ou te antre a.”
Because you was angry against me, and your fierceness is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hooks in your nostrils, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
29 “Epi sa va sign lan pou ou: Ou va manje nan lane sila a sa ki grandi pou kont li, nan dezyèm ane a, sa ki sòti menm jan an konsa e nan twazyèm ane a, ou va simen, rekòlte, plante chan rezen yo e manje fwi pa yo.
And this shall be a sign to you; eat this year the things that grow of themselves, and in the second year the things which spring up: and in the third year [let there be] sowing, and reaping, and planting of vineyards, and eat you the fruit of them.
30 Retay ki chape lakay Juda a va ankò pran rasin k ap pouse pa anba pou bay fwi pa anlè.
And he shall increase him that has escaped of the house of Juda: and the remnant [shall strike] root beneath, and it shall produce fruit above.
31 Paske depi Jérusalem, va vin sòti yon retay e sòti nan Mòn Sion, sila ki chape yo. Zèl SENYÈ a va acheve sa.”
For from Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and he that escapes from the mountain of Sion: the zeal of the Lord of host shall do this.
32 “Pou sa, pale SENYÈ a selon wa Assyrie a: ‘Li p ap rive nan vil sila a, ni tire yon flèch la. Li p ap rive devan li avèk yon boukliye, ni monte yon ran syèj kont li.
[Is it] not so? Thus says the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city, and he shall not shoot an arrow there, neither shall a shield come against it, neither shall he heap a mound against it.
33 Pa menm chemen ke li te antre a, pa li menm, li va retounen e li p ap rive nan vil sila a’, deklare SENYÈ a.
By the way by which he comes, by it shall he return, and he shall not enter into this city, says the Lord.
34 ‘Paske Mwen va defann vil sa a pou sove li pou koz Mwen menm ak pou koz sèvitè mwen an, David.’”
And I will defend this city as with a shield, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
35 Epi li te vin rive menm nwit sa a ke zanj SENYÈ a te sòti e te frape san-katre-ven-senk-mil moun nan kan Asiryen yo. Lè moun yo te leve granmmaten, men vwala, yo tout te mouri.
And it came to pass at night that the angel of the Lord went forth, an struck in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they rose early in the morning, and, behold, [these were] all dead corpses.
36 Pou sa, Sanchérib, wa Assyrie a, te sòti e te retounen lakay li pou te rete Ninive.
And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians departed, and went and returned, and lived in Nineve.
37 Konsa, li te vin rive pandan li t ap adore lakay Nisroc la, dye pa li a, ke Adrammélec avèk Scharetser te touye li avèk nepe, epi yo te chape nan peyi Ararat. Epi Ésar-Haddon, fis li a, te devni wa nan plas li.
And it came to pass, while he was worshipping in the house of Meserach his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons struck him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararath; and Asordan his son reigned in his stead.
