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 when king Hezekiah had heard this, he tore his garments, and he covered himself with sackcloth, and he entered 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, the first ruler of the house, and Shebnah, the scribe, and the elders from the priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah, 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: “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy. The sons are ready to be born, but the woman in labor does not have the strength.
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.
Perhaps the Lord, your God, may hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of the Assyrians, his lord, sent so that he would reproach the living God, and rebuke with words, which the Lord, your God, has heard. And so, offer a prayer on behalf of the remnant that has been found.”
5 Los esclavos del rey Ezequías se presentaron ante Isaías.
And the servants of king Hezekiah went 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: “So shall you say to your lord. Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid before the face of the words that you have heard, by which the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.
7 Ciertamente pondré un espíritu sobre él, y oirá un rumor. Se volverá a su tierra y caerá a espada en su propia tierra.
Behold, I will send a spirit to him, and he will hear a report, and he will return to his own land. And I will bring him down by the sword in his own land.”
8 Cuando el Rabsaces oyó que el rey de Asiria salió de Laquis, regresó y halló que combatía contra Libna.
Then Rabshakeh returned, and he found the king of the Assyrians fighting against Libnah. For he had heard that he had withdrawn from Lachish.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 he had heard from Tirhakah, the king of Ethiopia, saying, “Behold, he has gone out so that he may fight against you,” and when he went forth against him, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, 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.
“So shall you say to Hezekiah, the king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom you trust, lead you astray. And you should not say, ‘Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.’
11 Ciertamente tú oíste lo que los reyes de Asiria hicieron a todas las tierras y las destruyeron. ¿Y tú te librarás?
For you yourself have heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done to all the lands, the manner in which they have laid waste to them. Therefore, how would you alone be able to be freed?
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?
Have the gods of the nations freed any of those whom my fathers have destroyed, such as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who were at 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 city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena, and of Avva?”
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 so, when Hezekiah had received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and had read it, he ascended to the house of the Lord, and he spread it out 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 he prayed in his sight, saying: “O Lord, God of Israel, who sits upon the cherubim, you alone are God, over all the kings of the earth. You 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.
Incline your ear, and listen. Open your eyes, O Lord, and see. And hear all the words of Sennacherib, who sent so that he might reproach the living God before us.
17 Cierto es, oh Yavé, que los reyes de Asiria asolaron los pueblos y sus tierras,
Truly, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have devastated all peoples and 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 they have cast their gods into the fire. For they were not gods, but instead were the works of men’s hands, out of wood and stone. And so they destroyed them.
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.
Now therefore, O Lord our God, bring us salvation from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord 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: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I have heard what you beseeched from me, concerning Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians.
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 that the Lord has spoken about him: The virgin daughter of Zion has spurned and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind your back.
22 ¿A quién vituperaste y blasfemaste? ¿Contra quién levantaste tu voz y elevaste tus ojos con altivez? Contra el Santo de Israel.
Whom have you reproached, and whom have you blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? 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.
By the hand of your servants, you have reproached the Lord, and you have said: ‘By the multitude of my chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the summit of Lebanon. And I have cut down its sublime cedars, and its elect spruce trees. And I have entered even to its limits. And its forest of Carmel,
24 Cavé pozos, bebí aguas extranjeras y sequé todos los ríos de Egipto con las plantas de mis pies.
I have cut down. And I drank foreign waters, and I dried up all the enclosed waters with the steps of my feet.’
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.
But have you not heard what I have done from the beginning? From the days of antiquity, I have formed it, and now I have brought it to be. And fortified cities of fighting men will become piles of ruins.
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.
And whoever may settle in these, they have trembled, with a weak hand, and they have been confounded. They have become like the hay of the field, and like weeds sprouting on the rooftops, which dry up before they reached maturity.
27 Pero conozco tu situación, cómo sales y entras, y te enfureces contra Mí.
Your habitation, and your exit, and your entrance, and your way, I knew beforehand, along with your fury against me.
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.
You have been maddened against me, and your arrogance has ascended to my ears. And so, I will place a ring in your nose, and a bit between your lips. And I will lead you back along the way by which 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.
But as for you, Hezekiah, this shall be a sign: Eat this year whatever you will find, and in the second year, whatever may spring up of itself. But in the third year, sow and reap; plant vineyards, and eat from their fruit.
30 El remanente que quede de la casa de Judá echará nuevamente raíces hacia abajo, y llevará fruto hacia arriba.
And whatever will have been left behind, from the house of Judah, shall send a root downward, and shall bear fruit upward.
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!
Indeed, a remnant shall go forth from Jerusalem, and what may be saved shall go forth from mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall accomplish this.
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 reason, thus says the Lord about the king of the Assyrians: He shall not enter into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor overtake it with the shield, nor encircle it with fortifications.
33 Se devolverá por el mismo camino por el cual vino. Nunca entrará en esta ciudad, Palabra de Yavé,
By the way that he came, so shall he return. And he shall not enter this city, says the Lord.
34 por cuanto Yo defenderé esta ciudad para salvarla a causa de Mí y de mi esclavo David.
And I will protect this city, and I will save it for my own sake, and for the sake 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 so it happened that, in the same night, an Angel of the Lord went and struck down, in the camp of the Assyrians, one hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when he had risen up, at first light, he saw all the bodies of the dead. And withdrawing, he went away.
36 Entonces Senaquerib, rey de Asiria se retiró a Nínive.
And Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, returned and dwelled in 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 while he was worshipping in the temple of his god, Nisroch, his sons, Adram-melech and Sharezer, struck him with the sword. And they fled into the land of the Armenians. And Esarhaddon, his son, reigned in his place.
