< 2 Reyes 19 >
1 Y como el rey Ezequías lo oyó, rompió sus vestidos, y cubrióse de saco, y entróse en la casa de Jehová.
And on hearing it, King Hezekiah took off his robe, and put on haircloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
2 Y envió a Eliacim el mayordomo, y a Sobna escriba, y a los ancianos de los sacerdotes vestidos de sacos, a Isaías profeta, hijo de Amós,
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 Que le dijesen: Así dijo Ezequías: Este día es día de angustia, y de reprensión, y de blasfemia: porque los hijos han venido hasta la rotura, y la que pare no tiene fuerzas.
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 Quizá oirá Jehová tu Dios todas las palabras de Rabsaces, al cual el rey de los Asirios su señor ha enviado para injuriar al Dios vivo, y a reprender con palabras, las cuales Jehová tu Dios ha oído: por tanto alza oración por los restos que aun se hallan.
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 Y vinieron los siervos del rey Ezequías a Isaías.
So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 E Isaías les respondió: Así diréis a vuestro señor: Así dijo Jehová: No temas por las palabras que has oído, con las cuales me han blasfemado los siervos del rey de Asiria.
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 He aquí, yo pongo en él un espíritu, y oirá rumor, y volverse ha a su tierra: y yo haré que en su tierra caiga a cuchillo.
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 Y volviendo Rabsaces halló al rey de Asiria combatiendo a Lebna: porque ya había oído que se había partido de Laquis.
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 Y oyó decir de Taraca rey de Etiopía: He aquí que es salido para hacerte guerra. Entonces él volvió, y envió embajadores a Ezequías, diciendo:
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 Así diréis a Ezequías rey de Judá: No te engañe tu Dios, en quien tú confías para decir: Jerusalem 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 He aquí, tú has oído lo que han hecho los reyes de Asiria a todas las tierras, destruyéndolas, ¿y has de escapar tú?
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 ¿Libráronlas los dioses de las gentes, que mis padres destruyeron, es a saber, Gozán, y Harán, y Resef, y los hijos de Edén, que estaban en Talassar?
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 Emat, el rey de Arfad, el rey de la ciudad de Sefarvaim, de Ana, y de Ava?
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 Y tomó Ezequías las cartas de mano de los embajadores, y luego que las hubo leído, subió a la casa de Jehová, y extendiólas Ezequías delante de Jehová.
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 Y oró Ezequías delante de Jehová, diciendo: Jehová Dios de Israel, que habitas sobre los querubines, tú solo eres Dios a 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, oh Jehová, tu oreja, y oye: abre, oh Jehová, tus ojos, y mira, y oye las palabras de Sennaquerib, que ha enviado a blasfemar al Dios vivo.
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 Es verdad, oh Jehová, que los reyes de Asiria han destruido las gentes y sus tierras;
Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste the nations and their lands,
18 Y que pusieron en el fuego a sus dioses, por cuanto ellos no eran dioses, sino obra de manos de hombres, madera, o piedra, y así 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 Jehová, Dios nuestro, sálvanos, te suplico, de su mano, para que sepan todos los reinos de la tierra que tú solo, Jehová, eres Dios.
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 Amós, envió a Ezequías, diciendo: Así dijo Jehová Dios de Israel: Lo que me rogaste acerca de Sennaquerib, rey de Asiria, he oído.
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 Jehová ha hablado contra él: ¿Háte menospreciado? ¿Háte escarnecido, oh virgen, hija de Sión? ¿Ha movido su cabeza detrás de ti, hija de Jerusalem?
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 has injuriado? ¿Y a quién has blasfemado? ¿Y contra quién has hablado alto, y has alzado en alto tus ojos? 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 mano de tus mensajeros has dicho injurias contra mi Señor, y has dicho: Con la multitud de mis carros he subido a las cumbres de los montes, a las cuestas del Líbano, y cortaré sus altos cedros, sus hayas escogidas: y entraré a la morada de su término, al monte de su Carmelo.
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 Yo he cavado, y bebido las aguas ajenas, y he secado con las plantas de mis pies todos los ríos de los pueblos, sobre los cuales yo he puesto cerco.
I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
25 ¿Nunca has oído, que de luengo tiempo la hice yo, y de días antiguos la he formado? Y ahora la he hecho venir, y será para destrucción de ciudades fuertes en montones de asolamiento.
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 Y sus moradores cortos de manos, quebrantados, y confusos, serán yerba del campo, legumbre verde: heno de los tejados que antes que venga a madurez es seco.
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 Yo he sabido tu asentarte, tu salir, y tu entrar, y tu furor contra mí.
But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.
28 Por cuanto te has airado contra mí, y tu estruendo ha subido a mis oídos: por tanto yo pondré mi anzuelo en tus narices, y mi freno en tus labios, y yo 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 Y esto te será por señal: Este año comerás lo que nacerá de suyo: y el segundo año lo que tornará a nacer de suyo; y el tercer año haréis sementera, y segaréis, y plantaréis viñas, y comeréis el fruto de ellas.
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 Y lo que hubiere escapado, lo que habrá quedado de la casa de Judá tornará a echar raíz hacia abajo, y hará fruto hacia arriba.
And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth and give fruit.
31 Porque saldrán de Jerusalem residuos, y escapadura del monte de Sión: el celo de Jehová de los ejércitos 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 Jehová dice así del rey de Asiria: El no entrará en esta ciudad, ni echará saeta en ella: ni vendrá delante de ella escudo: ni será echado contra ella baluarte.
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 Por el camino que vino, se volverá, y no entrará en esta ciudad, dice Jehová.
By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town, says the Lord.
34 Porque yo ampararé a esta ciudad para salvarla, por amor de mí, y por amor de David mi siervo.
For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
35 Y aconteció que la misma noche salió el ángel de Jehová, e hirió en el campo de los Asirios ciento y ochenta y cinco mil hombres: y como se levantaron por la mañana, he aquí los cuerpos de los muertos.
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 Sennaquerib rey de Asiria se partió, y se fue y tornó, y estúvose en Nínive.
So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.
37 Y aconteció, que estando él adorando en el templo de Nesroc su dios, Adramelec y Sarasar sus hijos le hirieron a cuchillo: y huyéronse a tierra de Ararat, y reinó en su lugar Asaradón su hijo.
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.