2 Reyes 19
1 Aconteció que cuando el rey Ezequías lo oyó, rasgó sus ropas, se cubrió de tela áspera y fue a la Casa de Yavé.
And on hearing it, King Hezekiah took off his robe, and put on haircloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
2 Envió al administrador Eliaquim, al escriba Sebna y a los ancianos de los sacerdotes, cubiertos de tela áspera, al profeta Isaías, hijo de Amoz,
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 y le dijeron: Ezequías dijo: ¡Hoy es día de angustia, castigo y blasfemia! ¡Los hijos están por salir del vientre, pero no hay fuerzas para darlos a luz!
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 Quizás Yavé tu ʼElohim haya escuchado todas las palabras del Rabsaces, a quien el rey de Asiria, su ʼadón, envió para vituperar al ʼElohim viviente y reprenda las palabras que Él oyó. Por tanto, eleva una oración a favor del remanente que aún nos queda.
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, sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so then make your prayer for the rest of the people.
5 Los esclavos del rey Ezequías se presentaron ante Isaías.
So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 Isaías les respondió: Digan a su ʼadon: Yavé dice: No temas las palabras que oíste, con las cuales los esclavos del rey de Asiria me blasfemaron.
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 Ciertamente pondré un espíritu sobre él, y oirá un rumor. Se volverá a su tierra y caerá a espada en su propia tierra.
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 by the sword.
8 Cuando el Rabsaces oyó que el rey de Asiria salió de Laquis, regresó y halló que combatía contra Libna.
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 he had gone away from Lachish.
9 Pero cuando oyó decir que Tirhaca, rey de Etiopía, salió a luchar contra él, envió otra vez mensajeros a Ezequías para decirle:
And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, he sent representatives to Hezekiah again, saying,
10 Digan a Ezequías, rey de Judá: No te engañe tu ʼElohim, en el cual confías, y dices: Jerusalén no será entregada en mano del rey de Asiria.
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 Ciertamente tú oíste lo que los reyes de Asiria hicieron a todas las tierras y las destruyeron. ¿Y tú te librarás?
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?
12 ¿Los ʼelohim de las naciones que mis antepasados destruyeron las pudieron librar de la destrucción, esto es, a Gozán, Harán, Resef y los hijos de Edén que estaban en Telasar?
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 ¿Dónde está el rey de Hamat, o Arfad, o de la ciudad de Sefarvaim, o de Hena, o de Iva?
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena and of Ivvah?
14 Ezequías recibió la carta de mano de los mensajeros y la leyó. Subió a la Casa de Yavé, y la desplegó delante de Yavé.
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 Ezequías oró a Yavé: ¡Oh Yavé ʼElohim de Israel, que tienes tu trono entre los querubines! ¡Solo Tú eres el ʼElohim de todos los reinos de la tierra! Tú hiciste el cielo y la tierra.
And Hezekiah made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, 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.
16 Inclina tu oído, oh Yavé, y escucha. Abre tus ojos, oh Yavé, y observa. Escucha las palabras que Senaquerib envió para vituperar al ʼElohim viviente.
Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord, and 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.
17 Cierto es, oh Yavé, que los reyes de Asiria asolaron los pueblos y sus tierras,
Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste the nations and their lands,
18 y echaron sus ʼelohim al fuego. Porque ellos no son ʼElohim, sino obra de madera y piedra hechas por el hombres. Por eso los destruyeron.
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.
19 Ahora pues, oh Yavé ʼElohim nuestro, te ruego que nos salves de su mano, y que todos los reinos de la tierra sepan que solo Tú, oh Yavé, eres ʼElohim.
But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hands, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you and only you, O Lord, are God.
20 Entonces Isaías, hijo de Amoz, envió a decir a Ezequías: Yavé ʼElohim de Israel dice: Escuché lo que me rogaste acerca de Senaquerib, rey de Asiria.
Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer which you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.
21 Esta es la Palabra que Yavé dice acerca de él: Te menosprecia, se burla de ti la virgen, hija de Sion. Menea despectivamente la cabeza tras ti, la hija de Jerusalén.
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.
22 ¿A quién vituperaste y blasfemaste? ¿Contra quién levantaste tu voz y elevaste tus ojos con altivez? Contra el Santo de Israel.
Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.
23 Por medio de tus mensajeros afrentaste a ʼAdonay y dijiste: Con la multitud de mis carruajes yo escalé la cima de las montañas, lo más inaccesible del Líbano. Corté sus más altos cedros y lo mejor de sus cipreses, y entré en su más remoto refugio, en su bosque más frondoso.
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; 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.
24 Cavé pozos, bebí aguas extranjeras y sequé todos los ríos de Egipto con las plantas de mis pies.
I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
25 ¿No oíste que hace mucho tiempo lo determiné, y desde tiempos antiguos lo dispuse? Ahora lo ejecuto para reducir ciudades fortificadas a montones de escombros.
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.
26 Sus habitantes, carentes de fuerza, fueron acobardados y avergonzados como la vegetación del campo, la hierba verde, el verdor del pasto, como la hierba de las azoteas que se marchita antes de madurar.
This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.
27 Pero conozco tu situación, cómo sales y entras, y te enfureces contra Mí.
But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.
28 A causa de tu furia contra Mí y porque tu soberbia subió hasta mis oídos, pondré mi argolla en tu nariz y mi freno en tu hocico. Te haré volver por el camino por donde viniste.
Because your wrath against me and your words of pride have come up 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.
29 Ésta será la señal para ti: Este año comerás lo que brote del grano caído, y el segundo año, lo que brote sin sembrar. El tercer año sembrarás y cosecharás, plantarás viñas y comerás su fruto.
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.
30 El remanente que quede de la casa de Judá echará nuevamente raíces hacia abajo, y llevará fruto hacia arriba.
And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth and give fruit.
31 Porque saldrá un remanente de Jerusalén, y de la montaña Sion [saldrán] los que se salven. ¡El celo de Yavé de las huestes hará esto!
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.
32 Por tanto, Yavé dijo con respecto al rey de Asiria: No entrará en esta ciudad, ni disparará en ella ni una sola flecha, ni vendrá delante de ella con escudo, ni levantará contra ella terraplén.
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;
33 Se devolverá por el mismo camino por el cual vino. Nunca entrará en esta ciudad, Palabra de Yavé,
By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town, says the Lord.
34 por cuanto Yo defenderé esta ciudad para salvarla a causa de Mí y de mi esclavo David.
For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
35 Aconteció que aquella noche el Ángel de Yavé salió e hirió a 185.000 en el campamento de los asirios. Cuando [los demás] se levantaron de madrugada, ciertamente todos eran cadáveres.
And that night 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.
36 Entonces Senaquerib, rey de Asiria se retiró a Nínive.
So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.
37 Aconteció que mientras adoraba en el templo de su ʼelohim, Nisroc, Adramelec y Sarezer lo mataron a espada. Ellos escaparon a la tierra de Ararat. Su hijo Esar-hadón reinó en su lugar.
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.
