Ezayi 37
1 Lè wa Ézéchias te tande sa, li te chire rad li, te kouvri kò l ak sak twal, e li te antre lakay SENYÈ a.
And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.
2 Li te voye Éliakim ki te chèf nan kay la avèk Schebna, grefye a ak ansyen a prèt yo, kouvri ak sak twal, kote Ésaïe, pwofèt la, fis a Amots la.
And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
3 Yo te di l: “Men konsa pale Ézéchias: ‘Jou sa a se yon jou gwo malè, repwòch ak rejè; paske pitit yo rive nan lè pou yo fèt e nanpwen fòs pou akouche yo.
And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.
4 Petèt, SENYÈ Bondye ou a va tande pawòl a Rabschaké, ke mèt li a, wa Assyrie a, te voye pou repwoche Bondye vivan an, e li va repwoche pawòl ke SENYÈ a, Bondye ou a, te tande yo. Pou sa, leve lapriyè yo pou retay ki la toujou yo.’”
It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.
5 Se konsa sèvitè a Wa Ézéchias yo te rive kote Ésaïe.
So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 Ésaïe te di yo: “Konsa nou va pale mèt nou an, ‘Se konsa SENYÈ a pale: “Pa pè akoz pawòl ke ou te tande yo, avèk sila sèvitè a wa Assyrie yo te blasfeme non Mwen.
And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.
7 Gade byen, Mwen va mete yon lespri nan li pou l tande yon rimè pou li retounen nan pwòp peyi li. Epi Mwen va fè l tonbe pa nepe nan pwòp peyi li.”’”
See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death.
8 Pou sa a, Rabschaké te retounen e te twouve wa Assyrie a t ap goumen kont Libna, paske li te tande ke wa a te kite Lakis.
So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah: for it had come to his ears that the king of Assyria had gone away from Lachish.
9 Lè li menm, wa Assyrie a tande yo pale de Tirhaka, wa Cush la: “Li te parèt deyò pou goumen kont nou,” epi lè l tande sa, li te voye mesaje yo kote Ézéchias e te di:
And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, ... And he sent representatives to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying,
10 “Konsa ou va di a Ézéchias, wa a Juda a: ‘Pa kite Bondye ou a nan sila ou mete konfyans ou an pase ou anba rizib pou di ou: “Jérusalem p ap bay nan men wa Assyrie a.”
This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
11 Gade byen, ou te tande sa ke wa Assyrie yo te fè a tout peyi yo, ke yo te detwi yo nèt. Konsa, èske ou va chape?
No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate?
12 Èske dye a nasyon sa yo ke papa m te detwi yo te delivre yo; Gozan, Charan, Retseph, ak fis a Éden ki te Telassar yo?
Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
13 Kote wa Hamath la, wa Arpad la, ak wa nan vil a Sepharvaïm lan, Héna, ak Ivva?’”
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivva?
14 Ézéchias te pran lèt la nan men mesaje a, li te li li. Konsa, li te monte lakay SENYÈ a, e li te ouvri li devan SENYÈ a.
And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord,
15 Ézéchias te priye a SENYÈ a e te di:
And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,
16 “O SENYÈ dèzame yo, Bondye Israël la, ki chita sou twòn li anwo cheriben yo, Ou se Bondye a, Ou menm sèl, sou tout wayòm latè yo. Ou te fè syèl la ak latè a.
O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
17 Panche zòrèy Ou, O SENYÈ pou tande. Ouvri zye Ou, O SENYÈ pou Ou wè. Koute byen tout pawòl ke Sanchérib te voye pou repwoche Bondye vivan an.
Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.
18 Anverite O SENYÈ, wa Assyrie yo te detwi tout peyi yo ak tout tè pa yo.
Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,
19 Epi li te jete dye pa yo nan dife, paske se pa t dye yo te ye, men zèv ki te fèt pa men a lòm, ak bwa ak wòch. Konsa yo te detwi yo.
And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
20 Koulye a, O SENYÈ, Bondye nou an, delivre nou soti nan men l pou tout wayòm latè yo ka konnen ke Ou menm sèl SENYÈ a, se Bondye.”
But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.
21 Ésaïe, fis a Amots la te voye kote Ézéchias e te di: “Konsa pale SENYÈ a, Bondye Israël la, ‘Akoz nou te priye a Mwen menm sou Sanchérib, wa Assyrie a,
Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.
22 men pawòl ke SENYÈ a fin pale kont li: Fi vyèj a Sion an desann ou nèt! Li pa bay ou valè. Fi a Jérusalem nan souke tèt li devan w!
This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.
23 Se kilès ou te meprize e blasfeme? Kont kilès ou te leve vwa ou, e kont kilès ou te leve zye ou ak ògèy la? Kont Sila Ki Sen an Israël la!
Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.
24 Ak sèvitè ou yo, ou te meprize SENYÈ a! Ou te di: ‘Ak tout cha mwen yo, mwen te monte sou wotè a mòn yo, kote pi izole nan Liban yo. Epi mwen va koupe bwa sèd li yo ak tout bwa pichpen pi bèl yo. Mwen va monte kote tèt mòn pi wo li a, nan forè pi bèl li yo.
You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.
25 Mwen te fouye pwi yo, mwen te bwè dlo yo e ak pla pye mwen, mwen fè tout rivyè an Égypte yo vin sèch.’”
I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
26 “Èske ou pa t tande? Lontan sa, Mwen te fè li; depi nan tan ansyen yo, Mwen te planifye sa. Koulye a Mwen fin fè l rive, pou ou ta fè gwo vil fòtifye yo vin tounen gwo pil mazi.
Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
27 Akoz sa, moun ki te rete ladann yo te manke fòs. Yo te plen konfizyon ak wont. Yo te tankou zèb chan, tankou zèb vèt, tankou zèb sou twati kay ki fennen avan li fin grandi.
This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.
28 Men Mwen konnen lè ou chita ak lè ou sòti, lè ou antre ak lè ou fè laraj kont Mwen.
But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.
29 Akoz laraj ou fè kont Mwen, e akoz ògèy ou rive monte nan zòrèy Mwen; pou sa, Mwen va mete yon gwo kwòk nan nen ou ak brid Mwen nan lèv ou, e Mwen va vire fè ou tounen pa chemen ke ou te antre a.”
Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.
30 “Epi sa va sign pou ou: ou va manje ane sa a sa ki grandi pou li, nan dezyèm ane sa ki vin parèt menm jan an. Nan twazyèm ane a, plante, rekòlte, plante chan rezen yo e manje fwi yo.
And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.
31 Retay lakay Juda ki chape a va ankò pran rasin anba pou donnen fwi anlè.
And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.
32 Paske soti nan Jérusalem, va vin parèt yon retay e sòti nan Mòn Sion, kèk moun ki chape. Zèl kouraj SENYÈ a va akonpli sa a.”
For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
33 “Pou sa” pale SENYÈ a, pale konsènan wa Assyrie a konsa: “Li p ap rive nan vil sa a, ni tire yon flèch la. Li p ap parèt devan l ak boukliye, ni monte yon ran syèj kont li.
For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.
34 Pa menm chemen ke li te vini an, pa li menm li va retounen e li p ap rive sou vil sa a,’ deklare SENYÈ a.
By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.
35 ‘Paske Mwen va defann vil sa a pou sove li pou pwòp koz pa M, e pou koz sèvitè Mwen an, David.’”
For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
36 Epi zanj SENYÈ a te sòti deyò e te frape san-katre-ven-senk-mil lòm nan kan Asiryen yo. Lè moun te leve bonè granmmaten, gade byen, yo tout te mouri.
And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
37 Konsa, Sanchérib, wa Assyrie a te sòti, te retounen lakay li e te rete Ninive.
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.
38 Li te vin rive pandan li t ap adore lakay Nisroc, dye pa li a, ke Adrammélec ak Scharetser, fis li yo, te touye li ak nepe e yo te chape antre nan peyi Ararat. Konsa, Ésar-Haddon, fis li a, te renye nan plas li.
And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword, and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon, his son, became king in his place.
