Ii Regum 19
1 Quae cum audisset Ezechias rex, scidit vestimenta sua, et opertus est sacco, ingressusque est domum Domini.
On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.
2 Et misit Eliacim praepositum domus, et Sobnam scribam, et senes de sacerdotibus opertos saccis, ad Isaiam prophetam filium Amos.
And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz
3 Qui dixerunt: Haec dicit Ezechias: Dies tribulationis, et increpationis, et blasphemiae dies iste: venerunt filii usque ad partum, et vires non habet parturiens.
to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
4 Si forte audiat Dominus Deus tuus universa verba Rabsacis, quem misit rex Assyriorum dominus suus, ut exprobraret Deum viventem, et argueret verbis, quae audivit Dominus Deus tuus: et fac orationem pro reliquiis, quae repertae sunt.
Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
5 Venerunt ergo servi regis Ezechiae ad Isaiam.
So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah,
6 Dixitque eis Isaias: Haec dicetis domino vestro: Haec dicit Dominus: Noli timere a facie sermonum, quos audisti, quibus blasphemaverunt pueri regis Assyriorum me.
who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
7 Ecce, ego immittam ei spiritum, et audiet nuncium, et revertetur in terram suam, et deiiciam eum gladio in terra sua.
Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”
8 Reversus est ergo Rabsaces, et invenit regem Assyriorum expugnantem Lobnam: Audierat enim quod recessisset de Lachis.
When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
9 Cumque audisset de Tharaca rege Aethiopiae, dicentes: Ecce, egressus est ut pugnet adversum te: et iret contra eum, misit nuncios ad Ezechiam dicens:
Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush: “Look, he has set out to fight against you.” So Sennacherib again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10 Haec dicite Ezechiae regi Iuda: Non te seducat Deus tuus, in quo habes fiduciam: neque dicas: Non tradetur Ierusalem in manus regis Assyriorum.
“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Tu enim ipse audisti quae fecerunt reges Assyriorum universis terris, quo modo vastaverunt eas: num ergo solus poteris liberari?
Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?
12 Numquid liberaverunt dii Gentium singulos, quos vastaverunt patres mei, Gozan videlicet, et Haran, et Reseph, et filios Eden, qui erant in Thelassar?
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
13 Ubi est rex Emath, et rex Arphad, et rex civitatis Sepharvaim, Ana, et Ava?
Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
14 Itaque cum accepisset Ezechias litteras de manu nunciorum, et legisset eas, ascendit in domum Domini, et expandit eas coram Domino,
So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.
15 et oravit in conspectu eius, dicens: Domine Deus Israel, qui sedes super cherubim, tu es Deus solus regum omnium terrae: tu fecisti caelum et terram.
And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.
16 Inclina aurem tuam, et audi: aperi Domine oculos tuos, et vide: audi omnia verba Sennacherib, qui misit ut exprobraret nobis Deum viventem.
Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
17 Vere Domine dissipaverunt reges Assyriorum Gentes, et terras omnium.
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.
18 Et miserunt deos eorum in ignem: non enim erant dii, sed opera manuum hominum ex ligno et lapide, et perdiderunt eos.
They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
19 Nunc igitur Domine Deus noster, salvos nos fac de manu eius, ut sciant omnia regna terrae, quia tu es Dominus Deus solus.
And now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
20 Misit autem Isaias filius Amos ad Ezechiam, dicens: Haec dicit Dominus Deus Israel: Quae deprecatus es me super Sennacherib rege Assyriorum, audivi.
Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.
21 Iste est sermo, quem locutus est Dominus de eo: Sprevit te, et subsannavit te virgo filia Sion: post tergum tuum caput movit, filia Ierusalem.
This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
22 Cui exprobrasti, et quem blasphemasti? contra quem exaltasti vocem tuam, et elevasti in excelsum oculos tuos? contra sanctum Israel.
Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
23 Per manum servorum tuorum exprobrasti Domino, et dixisti: In multitudine curruum meorum ascendi excelsa montium in summitate Libani, et succidi sublimes cedros eius, et electas abietes illius. Et ingressus sum usque ad terminos eius, et saltum carmeli eius
Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
24 ego succidi. Et bibi aquas alienas, et siccavi vestigiis pedum meorum omnes aquas clausas.
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
25 Numquid non audisti quid ab initio fecerim? Ex diebus antiquis plasmavi illud, et nunc adduxi: eruntque in ruinam collium compugnantium civitates munitae.
Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
26 Et qui sedent in eis, humiles manu, contremuerunt et confusi sunt, facti sunt velut foenum agri, et virens herba tectorum, quae arefacta est antequam veniret ad maturitatem.
Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
27 Habitaculum tuum, et egressum tuum, et introitum tuum, et viam tuam ego praescivi, et furorem tuum contra me.
But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
28 Insanisti in me, et superbia tua ascendit in aures meas: ponam itaque circulum in naribus tuis, et camum in labiis tuis, et reducam te in viam, per quam venisti.
Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
29 Tibi autem Ezechia hoc erit signum: Comede hoc anno quae repereris: in secundo autem anno, quae sponte nascuntur: porro in tertio anno seminate et metite: plantate vineas, et comedite fructum earum.
And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
30 Et quodcumque reliquum fuerit de domo Iuda, mittet radicem deorsum, et faciet fructum sursum.
And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
31 De Ierusalem quippe egredientur reliquiae, et quod salvetur de monte Sion: zelus Domini exercituum faciet hoc.
For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
32 Quam ob rem haec dicit Dominus de rege Assyriorum: Non ingredietur urbem hanc, nec mittet in eam sagittam, nec occupabit eam clypeus, nec circumdabit eam munitio.
So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
33 Per viam, qua venit, revertetur: et civitatem hanc non ingredietur, dicit Dominus.
He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’
34 Protegamque urbem hanc, et salvabo eam propter me, et propter David servum meum.
‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
35 Factum est igitur in nocte illa, venit Angelus Domini, et percussit in castris Assyriorum centum octogintaquinque millia. Cumque diluculo surrexisset, vidit omnia corpora mortuorum: et recedens abiit,
And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
36 et reversus est Sennacherib rex Assyriorum, et mansit in Ninive.
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
37 Cumque adoraret in templo Nesroch deum suum, Adramelech et Sarasar filii eius percusserunt eum gladio, fugeruntque in terram Armenorum, et regnavit Asarhaddon filius eius pro eo.
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
