4-я Царств 19
1 Когда услышал это царь Езекия, то разодрал одежды свои и покрылся вретищем, и пошел в дом Господень.
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 И послал Елиакима, начальника дворца, и Севну писца, и старших священников, покрытых вретищами, к Исаии пророку, сыну Амосову.
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 И они сказали ему: так говорит Езекия: день скорби и наказания и посрамления - день сей; ибо дошли младенцы до отверстия утробы матерней, а силы нет родить.
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 Может быть, услышит Господь Бог твой все слова Рабсака, которого послал царь Ассирийский, господин его, хулить Бога живаго и поносить словами, какие слышал Господь Бог твой. Принеси же молитву об оставшихся, которые находятся еще в живых.
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 И пришли слуги царя Езекии к Исаии,
When the messengers from Hezekiah came to Isaiah,
6 и сказал им Исаия: так скажите господину вашему: так говорит Господь: не бойся слов, которые ты слышал, которыми поносили Меня слуги царя Ассирийского.
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 Вот Я пошлю в него дух, и он услышит весть, и возвратится в землю свою, и Я поражу его мечом в земле его.
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 И возвратился Рабсак, и нашел царя Ассирийского воюющим против Ливны, ибо он слышал, что тот отошел от Лахиса.
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 И услышал он о Тиргаке, царе Ефиопском; ему сказали: вот, он вышел сразиться с тобою. И снова послал он послов к Езекии сказать:
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 так скажите Езекии, царю Иудейскому: пусть не обманывает тебя Бог твой, на Которого ты уповаешь, думая: “не будет отдан Иерусалим в руки царя Ассирийского”.
[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 Ведь ты слышал, что сделали цари Ассирийские со всеми землями, положив на них заклятие, - и ты ли уцелеешь?
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 Боги народов, которых разорили отцы мои, спасли ли их? Спасли ли Гозан, и Харан, и Рецеф, и сынов Едена, что в Фалассаре?
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 Где царь Емафа, и царь Арпада, и царь города Сепарваима, Ены и Иввы?
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 И взял Езекия письмо из руки послов, и прочитал его, и пошел в дом Господень, и развернул его Езекия пред лицем Господним,
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 и молился Езекия пред лицем Господним и говорил: Господи Боже Израилев, сидящий на Херувимах! Ты один Бог всех царств земли, Ты сотворил небо и землю.
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 Приклони, Господи, ухо Твое и услышь меня; открой, Господи, очи Твои и воззри, и услышь слова Сеннахирима, который послал поносить Тебя, Бога живаго!
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 Правда, о, Господи, цари Ассирийские разорили народы и земли их,
“Yahweh, it is true that [the armies of] the kings of Assyria have completely destroyed many nations, and ruined their land.
18 и побросали богов их в огонь; но это не боги, а изделие рук человеческих, дерево и камень; потому и истребили их.
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 И ныне, Господи Боже наш, спаси нас от руки его, и узнают все царства земли, что Ты, Господи, Бог один.
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 И послал Исаия, сын Амосов, к Езекии сказать: так говорит Господь Бог Израилев: то, о чем ты молился Мне против Сеннахирима, царя Ассирийского, Я услышал.
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 Вот слово, которое изрек Господь о нем: презрит тебя, посмеется над тобою девствующая дочь Сиона; вслед тебя покачает головою дочь Иерусалима.
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 Кого ты порицал и поносил? И на кого ты возвысил голос и поднял так высоко глаза свои? На Святаго Израилева!
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 Чрез послов твоих ты порицал Господа и сказал: “со множеством колесниц моих я взошел на высоту гор, на ребра Ливана, и срубил рослые кедры его, отличные кипарисы его, и пришел на самое крайнее пристанище его, в рощу сада его;
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 и откапывал я и пил воду чужую, и осушу ступнями ног моих все реки Египетские”.
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 Разве ты не слышал, что Я издавна сделал это, в древние дни предначертал это, а ныне выполнил тем, что ты опустошаешь укрепленные города, превращая в груды развалин?
[‘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 И жители их сделались маломощны, трепещут и остаются в стыде. Они стали как трава на поле и нежная зелень, как порост на кровлях и опаленный хлеб, прежде нежели выколосился.
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 Сядешь ли ты, выйдешь ли, войдешь ли, Я все знаю; знаю и дерзость твою против Меня.
“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 За твою дерзость против Меня и за то, что надмение твое дошло до ушей Моих, Я вложу кольцо Мое в ноздри твои и удила Мои в рот твой, и возвращу тебя назад тою же дорогою, которою пришел ты.
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 И вот тебе, Езекия, знамение: ешьте в этот год выросшее от упавшего зерна, и в другой год - самородное, а на третий год сейте и жните, и садите виноградные сады и ешьте плоды их.
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 И уцелевшее в доме Иудином, оставшееся пустит опять корень внизу и принесет плод вверху,
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 ибо из Иерусалима произойдет остаток, и спасенное от горы Сиона. Ревность Господа Саваофа сделает сие.
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 Посему так говорит Господь о царе Ассирийском: “не войдет он в сей город, и не бросит туда стрелы, и не приступит к нему со щитом, и не насыплет против него вала.
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 Тою же дорогою, которою пришел, возвратится, и в город сей не войдет, говорит Господь.
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 Я буду охранять город сей, чтобы спасти его ради Себя и ради Давида, раба Моего”.
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 И случилось в ту ночь: пошел Ангел Господень и поразил в стане Ассирийском сто восемьдесят пять тысяч. И встали поутру, и вот все тела мертвые.
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 И отправился, и пошел, и возвратился Сеннахирим, царь Ассирийский, и жил в Ниневии.
Then King Sennacherib left and went home to Nineveh, [the capital of Assyria].
37 И когда он поклонялся в доме Нисроха, бога своего, то Адрамелех и Шарецер, сыновья его, убили его мечом, а сами убежали в землю Араратскую. И воцарился Асардан, сын его, вместо него.
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.
