2 Ar-ari 19
1 Napasamak daytoy nga idi nangngeg ni Ari Hezekias ti padamagda, rinay-abna ti pagan-anayna, nagkawes isuna iti nakersang a lupot, ket simrek iti balay ni Yahweh.
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].
2 Imbaonna a nakakawes iti nakersang a lupot da Eliakim a mangimatmaton iti palasio, ni Sebna nga eskriba ken dagiti panglakayen dagiti papadi kenni Isaias a propeta, nga anak ni Amos.
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.
3 Kinunada kenkuana, “Kuna ni Hezekias, 'Daytoy nga aldaw ket aldaw ti pannakaparparigat, pannakatubngar ken pannakaibabain, ta dimtengen ti tiempo ti pannakaiyanak dagiti ubbing, ngem awanen ti pigsa tapno maiyanakda.
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.
4 Mabalin a denggen ni Yahweh a Diosmo dagiti amin a sasao ti panguloen a komandante, nga imbaon ti ari ti Asiria nga apona tapno ibabainna ti sibibiag a Dios, ken tapno tubngarennanto dagiti sasao a nangngeg ni Yahweh a Diosmo. Ita, itag-aymo ti kararagmo para kadagiti nabati nga adda agingga ita.”'
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].”
5 Isu a napan dagiti adipen ni Ari Hezekias kenni Isaias,
When the messengers from Hezekiah came to Isaiah,
6 ket kinuna ni Isaias kadakuada, “Ibagayo iti amoyo: 'kuna ni Yahweh, “Saanka nga agbuteng kadagiti sasao a nangngegam, a nangibabainan kaniak dagiti adipen ti ari ti Asiria.
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.
7 Kitaem, mangikabilak iti espiritu kenkuana, ket mangngegna ti maysa a damag ket agsubli iti bukodna a daga. Tinnagek isuna babaen iti kampilan iti bukodna a daga."”'
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.’”
8 Ket nagsubli ti panguloen a komandante ket naduktalanna a makigubgubat ti ari ti Asiria a maibusor iti Libna, ta nangngegna a pimmanaw ti ari manipud idiay Lakis.
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].
9 Kalpasanna, nangngeg ni Senakerib a nagsagana ni Tirhaka nga ari ti Etiopia ken Egipto a manggubat a maibusor kenkuana, isu a nangibaon manen isuna kadagiti mensahero nga addaan iti mensahe kenni Hezekias:
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.
10 “Ibagayo kenni Hezekias nga ari ti Juda, 'Saanmo nga ipalubos nga allilawennaka ti Diosmo a pagtaltalkam iti panangibagbagana, “Saanto a maiyawat ti Jerusalem iti ari ti Asiria.”
[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].
11 Kitaem, nangngegmo ti inaramid dagiti ar-ari ti Asiria kadagiti amin a daga babaen iti panangdadaelda amin kadagitoy. Maispalnakanto ngata met?
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]
12 Naispal kadi ida dagiti dios dagiti nasion, dagiti nasion a dinadael dagiti ammak: ti Gosan, Haran, Resef, ken dagiti tattao ti Eden idiay Telassar?
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.
13 Sadino ti ayan dagiti ari ti Hamat, ti ari ti Arpad, ti Ari dagiti siudad ti Sefravaim, Hena ken Ivva?'”
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]!”
14 Naawat ni Hezekias daytoy a surat manipud kadagiti mensahero ket binasana daytoy. Kalpasanna, simmang-at isuna idiay balay ni Yahweh ket inyukradna daytoy iti sangoananna.
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.
15 Ket nagkararag ni Hezekias iti sangoanan ni Yahweh ket kinunana, '“Yahweh a Mannakabalin-amin, Dios ti Israel, sika a nakatugaw iti ngatoen dagiti kerubim, sika laeng ti Dios kadagiti amin a pagarian ditoy daga. Pinarsuam ti langit ken ti daga.
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.
16 Ipangagmo Yahweh, ket dumngegka. Luktam dagita matam Yahweh ket kumitaka ken denggem dagiti sao ni Senakerib nga impatulodna tapno laisenna ti sibibiag a Dios.
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.
17 Pudno Yahweh, a dinadael dagiti ar-ari ti Asiria dagiti nasion ken dagiti dagada.
“Yahweh, it is true that [the armies of] the kings of Assyria have completely destroyed many nations, and ruined their land.
18 Impuorda dagiti diosda, ta saan dagitoy a dios, aramid laeng dagitoy dagiti ima dagiti tattao, kayo ken bato laeng dagitoy. Isu a dinadael ida dagiti Asiriano.
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].
19 Ita ngarud, Yahweh a Diosmi, isalaknnakami, agpakaasiak kenka, manipud iti kinabilegna, tapno maammoan dagiti amin a pagarian ditoy daga a sika ni Yahweh nga agmaymaysa a Dios.”
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.”
20 Ket nangipatulod iti mensahe ni Isaias nga anak ni Amos kenni Hezekias a kunana, “Ibagbaga ni Yahweh a Dios ti Israel, 'Gapu ta nagkararagka kaniak maipapan kenni Senakerib nga ari ti Asiria, nangngegka.
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.
21 Daytoy ti sao ni Yahweh maipapan kenkuana: “Lalaisennaka ti birhen nga anak a babai ti Sion ken katawaannaka nga umsien. Iwingiwingna ti ulona kenka ti anak a babai ti Jerusalem.
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.
22 Siasino ti kinarit ken linaismo? Ket siasino ti binugkawam ken kinitam nga addaan iti kinatangsit? Maibusor iti Nasantoan iti Israel!
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.
23 Babaen kadagiti mensaherom, kinaritmo ti Apo, ket kinunam, 'Babaen kadagiti adu a karwahek, nakasang-atak kadagiti tapaw dagiti banbantay, inggana kadagiti kangangatoan a banbantay iti Libano. Pukanekto dagiti nangangato a sedro ken dagiti kasasayaatan a kaykayo ti saleng sadiay. Ket serkekto dagiti kaaadaywan a paset daytoy, iti nabunga unay a paset ti kabakiran.
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.
24 Nagkaliak kadagiti bubon ket umminumak kadagiti ganggannaet a danum. Pinamagaak amin dagiti karayan ti Egipto kadagiti dapanko.'
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]!”’
25 Saanmo kadi a nanggeg no kasano nga inkeddengko idi pay laeng, ket inaramidko daytoy idi pay punganay? Ita, tungtungpalekon. Adtoyka a mamagbalin kadagiti natalged a siudad a gabsuon dagiti dadadel.
[‘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.
26 Dagiti awanan pigsa nga agnanaed kadagitoy ket nawarawara ken nabainan. Kaslada kadagiti mulmula iti talon, berde a ruot, ti ruot a nagtubo iti bubongan wenno iti talon, nakset sakbay a dimmakkel.
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.
27 Ngem ammok no agtugtugawka, no rumrummuarka, no umun-unegka ken no makapungpungtotka kaniak.
“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.
28 Gapu iti panagpungpungtotmo kaniak, ken gapu ta nangngegko ti kinatangsitmo, taldengak ta agongmo, ken busalak ta ngiwatmo; isublika iti dalan a naggapuam.”
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].” '
29 Daytoyto ti pagilasinam; Ita a tawen, kanem dagiti agtubtubo laeng, ket iti maikadua a tawen, kanem ti agtubo manipud iti dayta. Ngem iti maikatlo a tawen, masapul nga agmulaka ket apitem, agmulaka kadagiti ubas ket kanem dagiti bungada.
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.
30 Agramut manen ket agbunga dagiti nabati a nakalasat iti balay ti Juda.
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].
31 Ta manipud iti Jerusalem, ti nabati ket rummuarto, umayto dagiti nakalasat manipud iti Bantay Sion. Ti regta ni Yahweh a Mannakabalin-amin ti mangaramid iti daytoy.
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.
32 Ngarud kinuna ni Yahweh daytoy maipapan iti ari ti Asiria: “Saanto isuna a makastrek iti daytoy a siudad wenno mangibiat ti pana sadiay. Saanto nga makaumay isuna a sikakalasag a makaasideg iti siudad wenno mangbangon ti panglakub iti aglawlawna.
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].
33 Ti dalan a nagnaanna nga immay ket isunto met laeng ti dalan a pagsublianna; saanto a sumrek iti daytoy a siudad. Daytoy ti pakaammo ni Yahweh.”
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!
34 Ta salaknibak ken ispalekto daytoy a siudad, para iti bukodko a dayaw ken gapu iti adipenko a ni David.'”
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.'”
35 Napasamak daytoy iti rabbii a rimmuar ti maysa nga anghel ni Yahweh, ket rinautna ti kampo dagiti Siriano, pinapatayna ti 185, 000 a soldado. Idi nakariing dagiti tattao iti agsapa, agkaraiwara dagiti bangkay.
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!
36 Isu a pimmanaw ni Senakerib nga ari ti Asiria iti Israel ket nagawid ken nagnaed idiay Nineve.
Then King Sennacherib left and went home to Nineveh, [the capital of Assyria].
37 Iti saan a nagbayag, kabayatan iti panagdaydayawna iti balay ni Nisrok a diosna, pinapatay isuna dagiti annakna a da Adramelek ken Sarezer babaen iti kampilan. Ket naglibasda a napan idiay daga ti Ararat. Ni Esarhadon nga anakna ti nagbalin nga ari a simmukat kenkuana.
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.
