2 Reis 19
1 E quando o rei Ezequias o ouviu, rasgou suas roupas, e cobriu-se de saco, e entrou-se na casa do SENHOR.
When King Hezekiah heard what they reported, he tore his clothes and put on clothes made of rough cloth [because he was very distressed]. Then he went to the temple [to ask God what to do].
2 E enviou a Eliaquim o mordomo, e a Sebna escriba, e aos anciãos dos sacerdotes, vestidos de sacos a Isaías profeta filho de Amoz,
He summoned Eliakim and Shebna and the (older/most important) priests, who were also wearing clothes made of rough sackcloth, and told them to talk to me.
3 Que lhe dissessem: Assim disse Ezequias: Este dia é dia de angústia, e de repreensão, e de blasfêmia; porque os filhos vieram até o ponto do parto, mas a que dá à luz não tem forças.
He said to them, “Tell this to Isaiah: ‘King Hezekiah says that we are having great distress/trouble now. [Other nations are causing] us to be insulted and disgraced. We are like [MET] a woman who is about to give birth to a child, but she does not have the strength that she needs to do it.
4 Talvez ouvirá o SENHOR tua Deus todas as palavras de Rabsaqué, ao qual o rei dos assírios, seu senhor, enviou para afrontar o Deus vivo, e repreenderá pelas palavras que o SENHOR teu Deus ouviu: portanto, eleva oração pelos restantes que ainda continuam.
Perhaps Yahweh your God has heard everything that the official from Assyria said. Perhaps he knows that his boss/master, the king of Assyria, sent him to insult the all-powerful God, and that Yahweh will rebuke/punish him for what he said.’ And he requests that you pray for the few of us who are still alive [here in Jerusalem].”
5 Vieram, pois, os servos do rei Ezequias a Isaías.
When the messengers from Hezekiah came to Isaiah,
6 E Isaías lhes respondeu: Assim direis a vosso senhor: Assim disse o SENHOR; Não temas pelas palavras que ouviste, com as quais me blasfemaram os servos do rei da Assíria.
Isaiah said to them, “[Go back to] your boss/master [and] tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says: Those messengers from the king of Assyria have said evil things about me. But you should not be disturbed because of what they said.
7 Eis que porei eu nele um espírito, e ouvirá rumor, e se voltará à sua terra: e eu farei que em sua terra caia à espada.
Listen to this: I will cause Sennacherib to hear a rumor that will worry him, [that a foreign army is about to attack his country]. So he will return to his own country, and there I will cause him to be assassinated by [men using] swords.’”
8 E regressando Rabsaqué, achou ao rei da Assíria combatendo a Libna; porque havia ouvido que se havia partido de Laquis.
The official from Assyria found out that the King of Assyria [and his army] had left Lachish [city], and that they were attacking Libnah, [which is a nearby city]. So the official went there [to report to him what had happened in Jerusalem].
9 E ouviu dizer de Tiraca rei de Etiópia: Eis que saiu para fazer-te guerra. Então voltou ele, e enviou embaixadores a Ezequias, dizendo:
Soon after that, King Sennacherib received a report that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was leading his army, and was coming to attack them. So before King Sennacherib left Libnah [to fight against the army from Ethiopia], he sent other messengers to King Hezekiah with a letter.
10 Assim direis a Ezequias rei de Judá: Não te engane teu Deus em quem tu confias, para dizer: Jerusalém não será entregue em mão do rei da Assíria.
[In the letter] he wrote this to Hezekiah: “Do not allow your god on whom you are relying to deceive you by promising that [the city of] Jerusalem will not be captured by my army [MTY].
11 Eis que tu ouviste o que fizeram os reis da Assíria a todas as terras, destruindo-as; e hás tu de escapar?
You have certainly heard what the armies of the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries. Our armies have completely destroyed them. So, (do you think that you will escape?/do not think that your god will save you!) [RHQ]
12 Livraram-nas os deuses das nações, que meus pais destruíram, a saber, Gozã, e Harã, e Rezefe, e os filhos de Éden que estavam em Telassar?
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 the people in the Gozan region and in Haran and Rezeph [cities in northern Syria] and the people of Eden who had been (deported/forced to go) to Tel-Assar [city]? None of the gods of those cities were able to rescue them.
13 Onde está o rei de Hamate, o rei de Arpade, o rei da cidade de Sefarvaim, de Hena, e de Iva?
What happened to the kings of Hamath and Arpad and Sepharvaim and Ivvah [cities] [RHQ]? [Most of them are dead, and the other people were deported]!”
14 E tomou Ezequias as cartas da mão dos embaixadores; e depois que as leu, subiu à casa do SENHOR, e estendeu-as Ezequias diante do SENHOR.
Hezekiah took 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.
15 E orou Ezequias diante do SENHOR, dizendo: SENHOR Deus de Israel, que habitas entre os querubins, tu só és Deus de todos os reinos da terra; tu fizeste o céu e a terra.
Then Hezekiah prayed, “Yahweh, the God whom to whom we Israelis belong, you are seated on your throne above the [statues of] 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.
16 Inclina, ó SENHOR, teu ouvido, e ouve; abre, ó SENHOR, teus olhos, e olha: e ouve as palavras de Senaqueribe, que enviou a blasfemar ao Deus vivente.
So, Yahweh, please listen to what I am saying, and look [at what is happening]. And listen to what King Sennacherib has said to insult you, the all-powerful God.
17 É verdade, ó SENHOR, que os reis da Assíria destruíram as nações e suas terras;
“Yahweh, it is true that [the armies of] the kings of Assyria have completely destroyed many nations, and ruined their land.
18 E que puseram no fogo a seus deuses, porquanto eles não eram deuses, mas sim obra de mãos de homens, madeira ou pedra, e assim os destruíram.
And they have thrown the idols of those nations into fires and burned them. But [that was not difficult to do, because] they were not gods. They were only statues made of wood and stone, idols that were shaped by humans, [and that is why they were destroyed easily].
19 Agora, pois, ó SENHOR Deus nosso, salva-nos, te suplico, de sua mão, para que saibam todos os reinos da terra que só tu, SENHOR, és Deus.
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.”
20 Então Isaías filho de Amoz enviou a dizer a Ezequias: Assim disse o SENHOR, Deus de Israel: O que me rogaste acerca de Senaqueribe rei da Assíria, ouvi.
Then Isaiah sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what Yahweh, the God to whom we Israelis belong, says: 'I have heard what you prayed to me about Sennacherib, the king of Assyria.
21 Esta é a palavra que o SENHOR falou contra ele: Menosprezou-te, escarneceu-te a virgem filha de Sião; moveu sua cabeça detrás de ti a filha de Jerusalém.
This is what I say to him: “The people of Jerusalem [MTY] despise you and make fun of you. They wag/shake their heads to mock you while you flee from here.
22 A quem afrontaste e a quem blasfemaste? E contra quem falaste alto, e levantaste em alto teus olhos? Contra o Santo de Israel.
Who do you think that you are despising and ridiculing? Who do you think you were shouting at? Who do you think you were looking at very proudly/arrogantly? It was I, the holy God whom the Israelis worship.
23 Por meio de teus mensageiros proferiste afronta contra o Senhor, e disseste: Com a multidão de meus carros subi aos cumes dos montes, às costas do Líbano; e cortarei seus altos cedros, suas faias escolhidas; e entrarei à morada de seu termo, à floresta de seu terreno fértil.
The messengers that 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/cyprus trees. We have been to the most distant/remote peaks and to its dense forests.
24 Eu cavei e bebi as águas alheias, e sequei com as plantas de meus pés todos os rios de lugares bloqueados.
We have dug wells in other countries and drank water from them. And by marching through [MTY] the streams of Egypt, we dried them all up [HYP]!”’
25 Nunca ouviste que há muito tempo eu o fiz, e de dias antigos o formei? E agora o fiz vir, e foi para desolação de cidades fortes em amontoados de ruínas.
[‘But I reply], “Have you never heard that long ago I determined [that those things would happen]? I planned it long ago, and now I have been causing it to happen. I planned that your army would have [the power to] capture many cities that were surrounded by high walls, and cause them to become piles of rubble.
26 E seus moradores, fracos de mãos, quebrantados e confusos, foram qual erva do campo, como hortaliça verde, e feno dos telhados, que antes que venha a maturidade é seco.
The people who lived in those cities have no power, and as a result they became dismayed and discouraged. They are as frail as plants and grass in the fields, as frail as grass that grows on the roofs of houses and is scorched by the hot east wind.
27 Eu soube teu assentar-te, teu sair e teu entrar, e teu furor contra mim.
“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.
28 Porquanto te iraste contra mim, e teu estrondo subiu a meus ouvidos, eu, portanto, porei meu anzol em tuas narinas, e meu freio em teus lábios, e te farei voltar pelo caminho por onde vieste.
So, because you have raged against me, and because I have heard [MTY] you speak very proudly/arrogantly, [it will be as though] I will put a hook in your nose and an iron (bit/piece of metal) 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].” '
29 E isto te será por sinal Ezequias: Este ano comerás o que nascerá de si mesmo, e no segundo ano o que nascerá de si mesmo; e ao terceiro ano semeareis, e colhereis, e plantareis vinhas, e comereis o fruto delas.
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “This is what will happen to prove [that I am telling the truth]: This year and next year you [and your people] will be able to harvest only (wild grain/grain that grows without having been planted). But the following year, you [Israelis] will be able to plant grain and harvest it, and to plant vineyards and eat the grapes that you harvest.
30 E o que houver escapado, o que haverá restado da casa de Judá, voltará a lançar raiz abaixo, e dará fruto acima.
The people [MTY] in Judah who remain alive will prosper and have many children; they will be like plants whose roots go deep down into the ground and which produce much [MET].
31 Porque sairão de Jerusalém remanescentes, e os que escaparão, do monte de Sião: o zelo do SENHOR dos exércitos fará isto.
There will be many people in Jerusalem [DOU] who will survive, because Yahweh, the commander of the armies of angels in heaven, wants [PRS] it to happen.
32 Portanto, o SENHOR diz assim do rei da Assíria: Não entrará nesta cidade, nem lançará flecha nela; nem virá diante dela escudo, nem será levantado baluarte contra ela.
So this is what Yahweh, says about the king of Assyria: ‘His armies will not enter this city; they will not even shoot any arrows into it! His soldiers will not march outside the city gates carrying shields, and they will not even build high mounds of dirt against [the city walls] [to enable them to attack the city].
33 Pelo caminho que veio se voltará, e não entrará nesta cidade, diz o SENHOR.
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!
34 Porque eu ampararei a esta cidade para salvá-la, por causa de mim, e por causa de Davi meu servo.
I will defend this city and prevent it from being destroyed. I will do this for the sake of my own reputation and because of what I promised to King David, who served me well.'”
35 E aconteceu que a mesma noite saiu o anjo do SENHOR, e feriu no campo dos assírios cento oitenta e cinco mil; e quando se levantaram pela manhã, eis que eram todos cadáveres.
That night, an angel from Yahweh went out to where the army of Assyria had put up their tents, and killed 185,000 of their soldiers! When the rest of their soldiers woke up the next morning, they saw that there were corpses everywhere!
36 Então Senaqueribe, rei da Assíria, partiu-se, e se foi e voltou a Nínive, onde ficou.
Then King Sennacherib left and went home to Nineveh, [the capital of Assyria].
37 E aconteceu que, estando ele adorando no templo de Nisroque seu deus, Adrameleque e Sarezer seus filhos o feriram à espada; e fugiram-se à terra de Ararate. E reinou em seu lugar Esar-Hadom seu filho.
One day, when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, two of his 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.
