Esaias 37
1 Då kong Hizkia høyrde det, reiv han sund klædi sine, og sveipte syrgjebunad kring seg og gjekk inn i Herrens hus.
And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.
2 So sende han drottseten Eljakim og riksskrivaren Sebna og dei eldste av prestarne syrgjeklædde til profeten Jesaja Amosson.
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 Og dei sagde til han: «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 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 Kann henda høyrer Herren, din Gud, 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 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 Då hirdmennerne frå kong 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 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 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.»»
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 Då Rabsake for burt att, fann han assyrarkongen i strid mot Libna; for han hadde høyrt at han hadde fare burt frå 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 Då han so fekk tiend at ætiopkongen Tirhaka hadde drege ut i herferd mot honom, sende han eit nytt bod til Hizkia med dei ordi:
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 «Seg med Juda-kongen Hizkia: «Ikkje lat din Gud, som du lit på, narra deg til å tenkja at ikkje Jerusalem skal falla i henderne på assyrarkongen!
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 Du hev nok høyrt gjete sjølv kor assyrarkongarne hev fare åt med mot alle landi: at dei bannstøytte deim. Og so skulde du berga deg undan?
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 Kunde vel folkegudarne berga sine folk, som federne mine øydde ut: Gozan og Haran og Resef og Edens-sønerne som er i Telassar?
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 Kvar er Hamat-kongen eller Arpad-kongen eller kongen i Sefarvajim-byen, yver Hena og 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 Hizkia tok brevet frå sendemennerne og las det; og so gjekk han upp i Herrens hus, og Hizkia breidde det ut for Herrens åsyn.
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 Og Hizkia bad til Herren og sagde:
And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,
16 «Herre, allhers drott, Israels Gud, du som tronar yver kerubarne! Einast du er Gud yver alle rike på jordi; du hev gjort himmelen og jordi.
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 Herre, legg øyra til og lyd! Herre, lat augo upp og sjå! Høyr dei ordi Sanherib sende og svivyrde den livande Gud!
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 Herre, det er sant: assyrarkongarne hev øydt ut folki og deira land,
Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,
19 og dei hev kasta gudarne deira på elden; for dei er ikkje gudar, berre manneverk utav stokk og stein, og dei hev tynt deim.
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 Men no må du, Herre, vår Gud, frelsa oss frå hans magt, so alle rike på jordi må røyna at einast du er Herren!»
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 Då sende Jesaja Amosson bod til Hizkia med dei ordi: «So segjer Herren, Israels Gud: «Med umsyn på bøni di til meg um Sanherib, assyrarkongen,
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 då er dette det ordet 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 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 Kven hev du svivyrdt? kven hev du spotta? Kven hev røysti di ropa imot? Augo lyfte du høgt, mot Israels Heilage.
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 Ved tenarane 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 cypressorne hennar; eg tek meg fram i dei øvste heimar, inn i den tettaste hagen;
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 eg hev grave og drukke vatn; med fotsolen min eg turkar ut alle Egyptarlands elvar.»
I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
26 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.
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 Folki deira vart veike og valne, skalv og stod til skammar. Det gjekk deim som graset på marki og grøne urtar, som vokstrar på taket, som kornåker fyrr han hev skote.
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 Eg veit når du sit, gjeng ut og gjeng inn, kor du slær deg vill imot meg.
But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.
29 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 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 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 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 Og leivningen som er att av Juda hus, skyt djupare røter nedantil, og ovantil ber han si frukt.
And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.
32 For ein leivning kjem frå Jerusalem, og ein rest frå Sionsfjellet. Brennhugen åt Herren, allhers drott, skal gjera dette.
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 Difor segjer Herren so um assyrarkongen: Ikkje skal han koma inn i denne byen, og ikkje skjota nokor pil der inn; ikkje skal han storma fram mot han med skjold, og ikkje byggja skansar upp imot han.
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 Den vegen han kjem, den skal han heim att fara, i denne byen slepp han ikkje inn, so segjer Herren.
By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.
35 Eg vernar denne by og bergar honom, for mi skuld og for Davids skuld, min tenar.»
For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
36 Og Herrens engel gjekk ut og slo hundrad og fem og åtteti tusund mann i assyrarlægret. Tidleg næste morgon fann dei deim alle liggjande lik.
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 Då tok assyrarkongen Sanherib ut og drog burt og snudde heim att, og heldt seg sidan i Nineve.
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.
38 Ein gong han heldt bøn i huset åt Nisrok, guden sin, hogg sønerne hans, Adrammelek og Sareser, honom ned med sverd. Dei kom seg undan til Araratlandet, og Asarhaddon, son hans, vart konge i staden hans.
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.
