اشعیا 36

۱ 1 و در سال چهاردهم حزقیا پادشاه واقع شد که سنحاریب پادشاه آشور برتمامی شهرهای حصاردار یهودا برآمده، آنها راتسخیر نمود.

When King Hezekiah had been [ruling Judah] for almost 14 years, King Sennacherib of Assyria came [with his army] to attack the cities in Judah that had walls around them. [They did not conquer Jerusalem, but] they conquered all the other cities.

۲ 2 و پادشاه آشور ربشاقی را ازلاکیش به اورشلیم نزد حزقیا پادشاه با موکب عظیم فرستاد و او نزد قنات برکه فوقانی به راه مزرعه گازر ایستاد.

Then the king of Assyria sent a large army with some of his important officials from Lachish [city] to [persuade] King Hezekiah [to surrender]. When they arrived at Jerusalem, they stood in their positions alongside the aqueduct/channel in which water flows into the upper pool [into Jerusalem], near the road to the field where the women wash clothes.

۳ 3 و الیاقیم بن حلقیا که ناظرخانه بود و شبنای کاتب و یوآخ بن آساف وقایع نگار نزد وی بیرون آمدند.

The Israeli officials who went out of the city to talk with them were Hilkiah’s son Eliakim, the (palace administrator/man who supervised the workers in the palace), Shebna the king’s secretary, and Asaph’s son Joah, who wrote down the government decisions.

۴ 4 و ربشاقی به ایشان گفت: «به حزقیا بگویید سلطان عظیم پادشاه آشور چنین می‌گوید: این اعتماد شما که برآن توکل می‌نمایید چیست؟

Then one of Sennacherib’s important officials told them to take this message to Hezekiah: This is what the King of Assyria, the great king, says: “What are you trusting in to rescue you?

۵ 5 می‌گویم که مشورت و قوت جنگ سخنان باطل است. الان کیست که بر او توکل نموده‌ای که به من عاصی شده‌ای؟

You say that you have weapons to fight us and some country’s promises [to help you], [and that will enable you to defeat us], but that is only talk [RHQ]. Who do you think will help you to rebel against my [soldiers from Assyria]?

۶ 6 هان بر عصای این نی خرد شده یعنی بر مصر توکل می‌نمایی که اگر کسی بر آن تکیه کند به‌دستش فرو رفته، آن را مجروح می‌سازد. همچنان است فرعون پادشاه مصر برای همگانی که بر وی توکل نمایند.

Listen to me! You are relying on [the army of] Egypt. But [that will be like] [MET] using a broken reed for a walking stick on which you could lean. [But] it would pierce the hand of anyone who would lean on it! That is what the King of Egypt would be like for anyone who relied on him [for help].

۷ 7 و اگر مرا گویی که بریهوه خدای خود توکل داریم آیا او آن نیست که حزقیا مکان های بلند و مذبح های او را برداشته است و به یهودا و اورشلیم گفته که پیش این مذبح سجده نمایید؟

But perhaps you will say to me, ‘[No], we are relying on Yahweh our God [to help us].’ [I would reply], ‘Is he not the one whom [you insulted by] tearing down his shrines and altars and forcing everyone in Jerusalem and [other places in] Judah to worship [only] in front of the altar [in Jerusalem]?’

۸ 8 پس حال با آقایم پادشاه آشورشرط ببند و من دو هزار اسب به تو می‌دهم اگر ازجانب خود سواران بر آنها توانی گذاشت.

So I suggest that you make a deal with my master/boss, the king of Assyria. I will give you 2,000 horses, but [I do not think that] you can find 2,000 of your men who can ride on them!

۹ 9 پس چگونه روی یک والی از کوچکترین بندگان آقایم را خواهی برگردانید و بر مصر به جهت ارابه‌ها وسواران توکل داری؟

You are expecting the king of Egypt to send chariots and men riding horses [to assist you]. But they certainly would not [RHQ] be able to resist/defeat even the most insignificant/unimportant official in the army of Assyria!

۱۰ 10 و آیا من الان بی‌اذن یهوه بر این زمین به جهت خرابی آن برآمده‌ام؟ یهوه مرا گفته است بر این زمین برآی و آن را خراب کن.»

Furthermore, [do not think that] [RHQ] we have come here to attack and destroy this land without Yahweh’s orders! It is Yahweh himself who told us to come here and destroy this land!”

۱۱ 11 آنگاه الیقایم و شبنا و یوآخ به ربشاقی گفتند: «تمنا اینکه با بندگانت به زبان آرامی گفتگونمایی زیرا آن را می‌فهمیم و با ما به زبان یهود درگوش مردمی که بر حصارند گفتگو منمای.»

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the official from Assyria, “Please speak to us in [your] Aramaic language, because we understand it. Do not speak to us in [our] Hebrew language, because the people who are standing on the wall will understand it [and become frightened].”

۱۲ 12 ربشاقی گفت: «آیا آقایم مرا نزد آقایت و توفرستاده است تا این سخنان را بگویم؟ مگر مرانزد مردانی که بر حصار نشسته‌اند نفرستاده، تاایشان با شما نجاست خود را بخورند و بول خودرا بنوشند.»

But the official replied, “Do you think that my master sent me to say these things [only] to you, and not to the people standing on the wall [RHQ]? [If you reject this message], the [people in this city] will soon need to eat their own dung and drink their own urine, just like you will, [because there will be nothing more for you to eat or drink].”

۱۳ 13 پس ربشاقی بایستاد و به آواز بلند به زبان یهود صدا زده، گفت: «سخنان سلطان عظیم پادشاه آشور را بشنوید.

Then the official stood up and shouted in the Hebrew language [to the people sitting on the wall]. He said, “Listen to this message from the great king, the King of Assyria!

۱۴ 14 پادشاه چنین می‌گوید: حزقیا شما را فریب ندهد زیرا که شمارا نمی تواند رهانید.

He says, ‘Do not allow Hezekiah to deceive you! He will not be able to rescue you!

۱۵ 15 و حزقیا شما را بر یهوه مطمئن نسازد و نگوید که یهوه البته ما را خواهدرهانید و این شهر به‌دست پادشاه آشور تسلیم نخواهد شد.

Do not allow him to persuade you to trust in Yahweh, saying that Yahweh will rescue you, and that [the army of] the King of Assyria will never capture this city!’

۱۶ 16 به حزقیا گوش مدهید زیرا که پادشاه آشور چنین می‌گوید: با من صلح کنید ونزد من بیرون آیید تا هرکس از مو خود و هر کس از انجیر خود بخورد و هر کس از آب چشمه خود بنوشد.

Do not pay attention to what Hezekiah says! This is what the king [of Assyria] says: ‘Come out of the city and surrender to me. [If you do that, I will arrange for] each of you to drink the juice from your own grapevines and to eat figs from your own trees, and to drink water from your own well.

۱۷ 17 تا بیایم و شما را به زمین مانندزمین خودتان بیاورم یعنی به زمین غله و شیره وزمین نان و تاکستانها.

[You will be able to do that] until we come and take you to a land that is like your land—a land where there is grain to make bread and [vineyards to produce grapes for making] new wine and, and where we make lots of bread.’

۱۸ 18 مبادا حزقیا شما را فریب دهد و گوید یهوه ما را خواهد رهانید. آیاهیچکدام از خدایان امت‌ها زمین خود را از دست پادشاه آشور رهانیده است؟

Do not allow Hezekiah to mislead you by saying, “Yahweh will rescue us.” The gods that people of other nations worship have never [RHQ] rescued any of them from the power [MTY] of the King of Assyria!

۱۹ 19 خدایان حمات وارفاد کجایند و خدایان سفروایم کجا و آیا سامره را از دست من رهانیده‌اند؟

Why were the gods of Hamath and Arpad [cities], and the gods of Sepharvaim unable to rescue Samaria from my power [MTY]?

۲۰ 20 از جمیع خدایان این زمینها کدامند که زمین خویش را از دست من نجات داده‌اند تا یهوه اورشلیم را از دست من نجات دهد؟»

No, no god [RHQ] of any nation has been able to rescue their people from me. So why do you think that Yahweh will rescue you people of Jerusalem from my power [MTY]?’”

۲۱ 21 اما ایشان سکوت نموده، به اوهیچ جواب ندادند زیرا که پادشاه امر فرموده وگفته بود که او را جواب ندهید.

But the people [who were listening] were silent. No one said anything, because King [Hezekiah] had commanded, “[When the official from Assyria talks to you], do not answer him.”

۲۲ 22 پس الیاقیم بن حلقیا که ناظر خانه بود و شبنای کاتب و یوآخ بن آساف وقایع نگار با جامه دریده نزد حزقیا آمدندو سخنان ربشاقی را به او باز‌گفتند.

Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah returned to Hezekiah with their clothes torn [because they were extremely distressed]. They told him what the official from Assyria had said.