اشعیا 37
| وقتی حِزِقیای پادشاه این خبر را شنید، لباس خود را پاره کرده، پلاس پوشید و به خانهٔ خداوند رفت تا دعا کند. | 1 |
When King Hezekiah heard what they reported, he tore his clothes and put on clothes made of rough sackcloth [because he was very distressed]. Then he went into the temple of Yahweh [and prayed].
| سپس به اِلیاقیم، شبنا و کاهنان ریش‌سفید گفت که پلاس بپوشند و نزد اشعیا نبی (پسر آموص) بروند | 2 |
Then he sent Eliakim, Shebna, and the (older/most important) priests, who were also wearing clothes made of rough sackcloth, to talk to me.
| و به او بگویند که حِزِقیای پادشاه چنین می‌گوید: «امروز روز مصیبت و سختی و اهانت است. وضعیت ما مثل وضعیت زنی است که منتظر وضع حمل است، اما قدرت زاییدن ندارد. | 3 |
He said to them, “Tell this to Isaiah: ‘King Hezekiah says that this is a day when we are greatly distressed. Other nations are causing us to be insulted and disgraced. We are like [SIM] a woman who is about to give birth to a baby, but she does not have the strength that she needs to do it.
| یهوه خدای تو سخنان اهانت‌آمیز این سردار آشور را که به خدای زنده اهانت کرده است، بشنود و او را مجازات نماید. برای بازماندگان قوم ما دعا کن.» | 4 |
[But] perhaps Yahweh our God has heard what the official from Assyria said. Perhaps he knows that his boss, the King of Assyria, sent him to insult the all-powerful God, and that Yahweh will punish the King of Assyria for what he said. And the king requests that you pray for the few of us who are still alive [here in Jerusalem].’”
| وقتی فرستادگان حِزِقیا این پیغام را به اشعیا دادند، | 5 |
After those men gave me that message,
| او در جواب گفت: «خداوند می‌فرماید که به آقای خود بگویید از سخنان کفرآمیز آشوری‌ها نترسد؛ | 6 |
I replied, “Tell the King, ‘This is what Yahweh says: “Those messengers from the King of Assyria have said evil things about me. But do not be disturbed by what they said.
| زیرا من کاری می‌کنم که پادشاه آشور با شنیدن خبری به وطنش بازگردد و در آنجا کشته شود.» | 7 |
Listen to this: I will cause Sennacherib to hear a rumor [that the armies of Babylon are about to attack his country], and that will worry him. So he will return to his own country, and there I will cause him to be assassinated by [men using] swords.”’”
| سردار آشور شنید که پادشاه آشور از لاکیش برای جنگ به لبنه رفته است، پس او نیز به لبنه رفت. | 8 |
The official from Assyria found out that the King of Assyria [and his army] had captured Lachish [city] and that they were attacking Libnah, [which is a nearby city]. So the official left Jerusalem and went to Libnah [to report to the king what had happened in Jerusalem].
| طولی نکشید خبر به پادشاه آشور رسید که ترهاقه، پادشاه حبشه، لشکر خود را برای حمله به او بسیج کرده است. بنابراین پادشاه پیش از رفتن به جنگ، برای حِزِقیای پادشاه نامه‌ای با این مضمون فرستاد: | 9 |
Soon after that, King [Sennacherib] received a report that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was leading his army to attack them. So before King Sennacherib left Libnah [with his army to fight against the army from Ethiopia], he sent other messengers to Hezekiah in Jerusalem with a letter. [In the letter he wrote this] to Hezekiah:
| «آن خدایی که بر او تکیه می‌کنی تو را فریب ندهد. وقتی می‌گوید که پادشاه آشور اورشلیم را فتح نخواهد کرد، سخنش را باور نکن. | 10 |
“Do not allow your god, on whom you are relying, to deceive you by promising you that Jerusalem will not be captured by my army.
| تو خود شنیده‌ای که پادشاهان آشور به هر جا رفته‌اند چه کرده‌اند و چگونه شهرها را از بین برده‌اند. پس خیال نکن که تو می‌توانی از چنگ من فرار کنی. | 11 |
You have certainly heard what the armies of the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries; our armies have destroyed them completely. So, (do you think that you will escape?/do not think that your god will save you!) [RHQ]
| آیا خدایان اقوامی چون جوزان، حاران، رصف و خدای مردم عدن که در سرزمین تلسار زندگی می‌کنند، ایشان را نجات دادند؟ اجداد ما تمام آنها را از میان برداشتند. | 12 |
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 Gozan [region], and Haran and Rezeph [cities in northern Syria], and the people of Eden [region] who were forced to go to Tel-Assar [city]?
| بر سر پادشاه حمات و پادشاه ارفاد و سلاطین سفروایم، هینع، و عوا چه آمد؟» | 13 |
What happened to the King of Hamath and the King of Arpad? What happened to the kings of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah [cities]? [Did their gods rescue them] [RHQ]?”
| حِزِقیا نامه را از قاصدان گرفت و خواند. سپس به خانهٔ خداوند رفت و آن نامه را در حضور خداوند پهن کرد. | 14 |
Hezekiah received 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.
| بعد چنین دعا کرد: | 15 |
And [then] Hezekiah prayed this:
| «ای خداوند لشکرهای آسمان، ای خدای اسرائیل که بر تخت خود در میان کروبیان نشسته‌ای. تو تنها خدای تمام ممالک جهان هستی. تو آسمان و زمین را آفریده‌ای. | 16 |
“O Yahweh, Commander of the armies of angels, the God to whom [we] Israelis belong, you are seated on your throne above the statues of the 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.
| ای خداوند، سخنان سنحاریب را بشنو و ببین این مرد چگونه به تو، ای خدای زنده توهین می‌کند. | 17 |
[So], Yahweh, [please] listen to what I am saying, and look at [what is happening]! And listen to what Sennacherib has said to insult you, the all-powerful God!
| خداوندا، راست است که پادشاهان آشور تمام آن اقوام را از بین برده‌اند و سرزمین ایشان را ویران کرده‌اند، | 18 |
Yahweh, it is true that [the armies of] the kings of Assyria have completely destroyed many nations and ruined their land.
| و خدایان آنها را سوزانده‌اند. اما آنها خدا نبودند. آنها نابود شدند، چون ساختهٔ دست انسان و از چوب و سنگ بودند. | 19 |
And they have thrown all the idols of those nations into fires and burned them. But they were not [really] gods. They were only idols made of wood and stone, [and that is why they were destroyed easily].
| ای یهوه خدای ما، التماس می‌کنیم که ما را از چنگ پادشاه آشور نجات دهی تا تمام قومهای جهان بدانند که تنها تو خدا هستی.» | 20 |
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.”
| اشعیای نبی برای حِزِقیای پادشاه این پیغام را فرستاد: «یهوه، خدای اسرائیل می‌فرماید که دعای تو را در مورد سنحاریب، پادشاه آشور شنیده است. | 21 |
Then I sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what Yahweh, the God to whom [we] Israelis belong, says: Because you prayed about what King Sennacherib of Assyria [said],
| و جواب او به سنحاریب این است: شهر اورشلیم از تو نمی‌ترسد، بلکه تو را مسخره می‌کند. | 22 |
this is what I say to him: ‘The people of Jerusalem despise you and make fun of you. They will wag/shake their heads to mock you while you flee from here.
| تو می‌دانی به چه کسی اهانت کرده و کفر گفته‌ای؟ می‌دانی صدایت را بر چه کسی بلند کرده‌ای و بر چه کسی با تکبر نگریسته‌ای؟ بر خدای قدوس اسرائیل! | 23 |
Whom do you think you have been despising and ridiculing? Whom do you think you were shouting at? Whom do you think you were looking at [very] proudly/arrogantly? [It was I], the Holy One whom the Israelis worship!
| «تو افرادت را نزد من فرستادی تا به من فخر بفروشی و بگویی که با ارابه‌هایت کوههای بلند لبنان و قله‌های آن را فتح کرده‌ای، بلندترین درختان سرو آزاد و بهترین صنوبرهایش را قطع نموده و به دورترین نقاط جنگلش رسیده‌ای. | 24 |
The messengers whom 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/cypress [trees]. We have been to the most distant/remote peaks and to its densest forests.
| تو افتخار می‌کنی که چاههای آب زیادی را تصرف کرده و از آنها آب نوشیده‌ای و پای تو به رود نیل مصر رسیده، آن را خشک کرده است. | 25 |
We have dug wells [in many countries] and drunk water [from them]. And by marching through [MTY] the streams of Egypt, we dried them all up [HYP]!”
| «آیا نمی‌دانی که این من بودم که به تو اجازهٔ انجام چنین کارهایی را دادم؟ من از قدیم چنین مقدر نموده بودم که تو آن شهرهای حصاردار را تصرف کرده، ویران نمایی. | 26 |
[But I, Yahweh, reply], “Have you never heard that long ago I determined [those things]; I planned them long ago, and now I have been causing those things to occur. I planned that your army would destroy cities and cause them to become piles of rubble.
| از این جهت بود که اهالی آن شهرها در برابر تو هیچ قدرتی نداشتند. آنها مانند علف صحرا و گیاه نورسته‌ای بودند که در زیر آفتاب سوزان خشک شده، پیش از رسیدن پژمرده گردیدند. | 27 |
The people in those cities have no power, and as a result they are dismayed and discouraged. They are [as frail as] [MET] grass and plants in the fields, as frail as grass that grows on the roofs of houses and is scorched by the hot east wind.
| اما من از همهٔ فکرها و کارهای تو و تنفری که نسبت به من داری آگاهم. | 28 |
[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.
| به سبب این غرور و تنفری که نسبت به من داری، بر بینی تو افسار زده و در دهانت لگام خواهم گذاشت و تو را از راهی که آمده‌ای باز خواهم گردانید.» | 29 |
[So], because you have raged against me and because I have heard you speak very proudly/arrogantly, [it will be as though] I will put a hook in your nose and I will put an iron (bit/metal bar) 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].”’
| سپس اشعیا به حِزِقیا گفت: «علامت این رویدادها این است: امسال و سال دیگر از گیاهان خودرو استفاده خواهید کرد، اما در سال سوم خواهید کاشت و خواهید دروید، تاکستانها غرس خواهید نمود و از میوه‌شان خواهید خورد. | 30 |
[Then I said to Hezekiah], ‘This will prove to you [that what I said will happen]: “This year, you(pl) will eat [only the crops] that grow by themselves, and next year the same thing will happen. But in the third year you will plant [crops] and harvest them; you will take care of your vineyards and eat the grapes.
| بازماندگان یهودا بار دیگر در سرزمین خود ریشه دوانیده ثمر خواهند آورد | 31 |
And [you] people who are still [here] in Judah, will be strong and prosper again [MET].
| و در اورشلیم باقی خواهند ماند، زیرا غیرت خداوند لشکرهای آسمان این امر را بجا خواهد آورد. | 32 |
A small number of my people will survive, and they will spread out from Jerusalem [DOU].” That will happen because [I], the Commander of the armies of angels, am desiring very much to accomplish it.’
| «خداوند دربارهٔ پادشاه آشور چنین می‌گوید: او به این شهر داخل نخواهد شد، سپر به دست در برابر آن نخواهد ایستاد، پشته‌ای در مقابل حصارش بنا نخواهد کرد و حتی یک تیر هم به داخل اورشلیم نخواهد انداخت. | 33 |
And this is what [I], Yahweh, say about the King of Assyria: ‘His [armies] will not enter Jerusalem; they will not [even] shoot arrows into it. His soldiers will not [march outside] the city gates holding their shields, and they will not build high mounds of dirt against the walls of the city [to enable them to attack the city].
| او از همان راهی که آمده است باز خواهد گشت، | 34 |
And 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!
| زیرا من به خاطر خود و به خاطر بنده‌ام داوود از این شهر دفاع خواهم کرد و آن را نجات خواهم داد.» | 35 |
For the sake of my own reputation and because of what I promised King David, who served me [well], I will defend this city and prevent it from being destroyed.”
| در همان شب فرشتهٔ خداوند صد و هشتاد و پنج هزار نفر از سربازان آشوری را کشت، به طوری که صبح روز بعد، تا آنجا که چشم کار می‌کرد، جنازه دیده می‌شد. | 36 |
[That night], an angel from Yahweh went out to where the army of Assyria had set up their tents and killed 185,000 of their soldiers. When [the rest of the soldiers] woke up the next morning, they saw that there were corpses everywhere.
| پس سنحاریب، پادشاه آشور عقب‌نشینی کرده، به نینوا برگشت. | 37 |
Then King Sennacherib left and returned home to Nineveh [in Assyria], and stayed there.
| او در حالی که در معبد خدای خود نِسروک مشغول عبادت بود، پسرانش ادرملک و شرآصر او را با شمشیر کشتند و به سرزمین آرارات فرار کردند و یکی دیگر از پسرانش، به نام آسرحدون به جای او پادشاه آشور شد. | 38 |
[One day], when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his two 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.
