2 Kongebok 19
1 Då kong Hizkia høyrde det, reiv han sund klædi sine, sveipte syrgjebunad kring seg og gjekk inn i Herrens hus.
And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
2 Han sende drottseten Eljakim og riksskrivaren Sebna og dei eldste prestarne syrgjeklædde til profeten Jesaja Amosson,
And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 med dei ordi: «So segjer Hizkia: «Dette er ein dag full av naud og straff og skjemsla; fosteri hev nått fødsli, men det finst ikkje kraft til å føda.
And they said unto him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4 Kann henda høyrer Herren, din Gud, alt det Rabsake hev sagt, han som er send av assyrarkongen, herren sin, til å svivyrda den livande Gud, so han straffar honom for dei ordi som Herren, din Gud, hev høyrt. Ber då fram ei bøn for den leivning som endå er att!»»
It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD your God has heard: wherefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that are left.
5 Då hirdmennerne frå Hizkia kom til Jesaja,
So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 sagde Jesaja til deim: «So skal de svara herren dykkar: «So segjer Herren: Ver ikkje rædd for dei ordi du høyrde då trælarne åt assyrarkongen spotta meg!
And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall all of you say to your master, Thus says the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Eit hugskot skyt eg i hugen hans; han høyrer ei tiend, og heim att snur han; der let eg honom falla for sverd i sitt land.»»
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8 Då Rabsake for burt att, fann han assyrarkongen i strid mot Libna; for han hadde høyrt at han hadde fare burt frå Lakis.
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9 Då han fekk tiend at ætiopkongen Tirhaka hadde drege ut på herferd mot honom, sende han eit nytt bod til Hizkia med dei ordi:
And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he has come out to fight against you: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
10 «Seg so med Hizkia, Juda-kongen: «Ikkje lat din Gud, som du lit på, narra deg til å tenkja at ikkje Jerusalem skal falla i henderne på assyrarkongen!
Thus shall all of you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Du hev nok høyrt gjete sjølv kor assyrarkongarne hev fare åt mot alle landi; at dei bannstøytte deim. Og so skulde du berga deg undan?
Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shall you be delivered?
12 Kunde folke-gudarne berga sine folk, som federne mine øydde ut: Gozan, Haran, Resef eller Edens-folki i Telassar?
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
13 Kvar er Hamat-kongen eller Arpad-kongen eller kongen yver Sefarvajimbyen, yver Hena og Ivva?»»
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
14 Hizkia tok brevet frå sendebodi og las det; og so gjekk han upp i Herrens hus, og Hizkia breidde det ut for Herrens åsyn.
And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
15 Og Hizkia bad for Herrens åsyn, og sagde: «Herre, du Israels Gud! du som sit yver kerubarne! Einast du er Gud yver alle rike på jordi! du hev gjort himmelen og jordi.
And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwell between the cherubims, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
16 Herre, legg øyra til og lyd! Herre, lat augo upp og sjå! Høyr dei ordi Sanherib sende, og svivyrde den livande Gud!
LORD, bow down your ear, and hear: open, LORD, your eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which has sent him to reproach the living God.
17 Herre, det er sant: assyrarkongen hev øydt ut folki og deira land,
Truthfully, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
18 kasta gudarne deira på elden; for dei er ikkje gudar, berre manneverk utav stokk og stein; difor kunde dei øydast.
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
19 Men no må du, Herre, vår Gud, frelsa oss frå hans magt, so alle rike på jordi må røyna: du, Herre, einast er Gud!»
Now therefore, O LORD our God, I plead to you, save you us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the LORD God, even you only.
20 Då sende Jesaja Amosson bod til Hizkia med dei ordi: «So segjer Herren, Israels Gud: «Bøni di hev eg høyrt um hjelp mot Sanherib, Assur-kongen.
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, That which you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21 So lyder Herrens ord, som Herren hev tala imot honom: «Ho vanvyrder deg, ho spottar deg, ungmøyi, Sions dotter, ho rister på hovudet åt deg, Jerusalems dotter.
This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion has despised you, and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
22 Kven hev du svivyrdt? kven hev du spotta? Kven hev røysti di ropa imot? Augo lyfte du høgt, mot Israels Heilage.
Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
23 Ved sendebodi hædde du Herren og sagde: Med dei mange vognerne mine for eg upp på dei høgste fjelli, ja, langt burti Libanons utmark, der høgg eg ned hennar høge cedrar og dei hæve cypressarne hennar; eg tek meg fram i dei øvste heimar, inn i den tettaste skogen;
By your messengers you have reproached the LORD, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
24 eg borar meg brunnar og vatn drikk eg hjå framande folk; med fotsolen min turkar eg ut alle Egyptarlands elvar.»
I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
25 Hev du’kje høyrt at eg hev longe laga det so? Frå ævordsleg tid hev eg fyreåt fastsett dette! Og no let eg det koma i verk! Du fekk magt til å øyda sterke borgar til steinrøysar aude.
Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that you should be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
26 Folki deira vart veike og valne, skalv og stod til skammar. Det gjekk deim som gras på marki og grøne urter, som vokstrar på taket som moldaks i bryddande åker.
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
27 Eg veit når du sit, og gjeng ut og gjeng inn, kor du slær deg vill imot meg.
But I know your abode, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against me.
28 Av di du er vill imot meg, og eg høyrer kor kaut du er, eg hektar min krok i nosi di, legg min taum i munnen din, og vikjer deg heim att den vegen du kom.
Because your rage against me and your tumult has come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
29 Og dette skal du hava til merke: I år skal de eta sjølvsått korn, næste år sjølvrunne, men tridje året skal de så og hausta og planta vinhagar og eta frukti av deim.
And this shall be a sign unto you, All of you shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow all of you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
30 Og leivningen som er att av Juda hus, skyt djupare røter nedantil og ovantil ber han si frukt.
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31 For ein leivning kjem frå Jerusalem, og ein rest frå Sionsfjellet. Herrens brennhug skal gjera dette.
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
32 Difor segjer Herren so um assyrarkongen: Ikkje skal han koma inn i denne byen, og ikkje skal han skjota nokor pil der inn. Ikkje skal han storma fram mot han med skjold, og ikkje byggja skansar upp imot han.
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
33 Den vegen som han kjem, den skal han heim att fara, i denne byen kjem han ikkje inn, so segjer Herren.
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, says the LORD.
34 Eg vernar denne by og bergar honom, for mi skuld og for Davids skuld, min tenar.»»
For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
35 Det hende seg den natti at Herrens engel gjekk ut og slo hundrad og fem og åtteti tusund i assyrarlægret. Tidleg næste morgon fann dei deim alle ligjande lik.
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and stroke in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
36 Då tok assyrarkongen Sankerib ut og drog burt og snudde heim att, og heldt seg sidan i Nineve.
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
37 Ein gong han heldt bøn i huset åt Nisrok, guden sin, hogg Adrammelek og Sareser honom ned med sverd; dei kom seg undan til Araratslandet. Og Asarhaddon, son hans, vart konge i staden hans.
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons stroke him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his position.
