2 Reyes 19
1 Al oírlo, el rey Ezequías se quitó la túnica, se puso ropas ásperas y entró en el templo del Señor.
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 Envió a Eliaquim, que estaba sobre la casa, y a Sebna el escriba, y a los principales sacerdotes, con ropas ásperas, al profeta Isaías, hijo 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 Y ellos le dijeron: Ezequías dice: Hoy es un día de angustia, de castigo y de vergüenza; como cuando los niños están listos para nacer, pero no hay fuerzas para darles a luz.
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 Puede ser que él Señor tu Dios escuche las palabras del Rabsaces, a quien el rey de Asiria, su amo, envió a blasfemar al Dios vivo, y lo reprenda por las palabras que él Señor mismo, tu Dios habrá oído; entonces haz tu oración por el remanente de gente que aún queda.
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 Entonces los siervos del rey Ezequías vinieron a Isaías.
When the messengers from Hezekiah came to Isaiah,
6 Entonces Isaías les dijo: Esto es lo que debes decirle a tu amo: El Señor dice: No te preocupes por las palabras que los siervos del rey de Asiria han dicho contra mí en tu oído.
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 Mira, pondré espíritu en él, y las malas noticias llegarán a sus oídos, y él volverá a su tierra; y allí lo haré matar a filo de 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 Entonces regresó el Rabsaces, y cuando llegó allí, el rey de Asiria estaba haciendo la guerra a Libna, porque había llegado a sus oídos que se había ido 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 Y cuando le llegaron noticias de que Tirhaca, rey de Etiopía, había hecho un ataque contra él, envió representantes a Ezequías de nuevo, diciendo:
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 Esto es lo que debes decir a Ezequías, rey de Judá: No permitas que tu Dios, en quien está tu fe, te dé una falsa esperanza, diciendo: Jerusalén no será entregada en manos del rey de Asiria.
[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 Sin duda, la historia ha llegado a tus oídos de lo que los reyes de Asiria han hecho a todas las tierras, destruyéndolas por completo; y te mantendrás a salvo?
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 ¿Los dioses de las naciones mantuvieron a salvo a aquellos a quienes mis padres enviaron a la destrucción, Gozan y Harán y Resef y los hijos de Edén que estaban en Telasar?
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 ¿Dónde están el rey de Hamat, y el rey de Arfad, y el rey de la ciudad de Sefarvaim, de Hena y 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 Ezequías tomó la carta de las manos de los que habían venido con ella; y después de leerlo, Ezequías subió al templo del Señor, abriendo la carta allí delante del Señor.
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 hizo Ezequías su oración al Señor, diciendo: Señor, Dios de Israel, sentado entre los querubines, tú solo eres el Dios de todos los reinos de la tierra; Has hecho los cielos y la tierra.
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 tu oído y escucha, Señor, y abre los ojos, Señor, y mira; tome nota de todas las palabras de Senaquerib que envió a hombres a decir mal contra el Dios vivo.
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 En verdad, oh Señor, los reyes de Asiria han destruido a las naciones y sus tierras,
“Yahweh, it is true that [the armies of] the kings of Assyria have completely destroyed many nations, and ruined their land.
18 Y han dado sus dioses al fuego. porque no eran dioses, sino madera y piedra, obra de manos de hombres; Así los han dado a la destrucción.
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 Pero ahora, Señor nuestro Dios, danos la salvación de sus manos, para que quede claro a todos los reinos de la tierra que tú y solo tú, Señor, eres Dios.
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 Entonces Isaías, hijo de Amoz, envió a Ezequías, diciendo: El Señor, el Dios de Israel, dice: La oración que me has hecho contra Senaquerib, rey de Asiria, ha llegado a mis oídos.
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 es la palabra que el Señor ha dicho contra él: te ha despreciado? Se ha burlado? la hija virgen de Sión, La hija de Jerusalén ha movido su cabeza a tus espaldas.
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 ¿Contra quién has dicho cosas malas y amargas? ¿Contra quién ha sonado tu voz y tus ojos levantados? contra él Dios 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 Enviaste a tus siervos con malas palabras contra el Señor, y dijiste: Con todos mis carros de guerra he subido a la cima de las montañas, a las partes más íntimas del Líbano; cortaré sus altos cedros y los mejores árboles de sus bosques; Subiré a sus lugares más altos, a sus espesos bosques.
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 Hice pozos de agua y tomé sus aguas, y con mi pie he secado todos los ríos de Egipto.
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 ¿No ha llegado a tus oídos cómo lo hice mucho antes, y lo propuse en tiempos pasados? Ahora he dado efecto a mi diseño para que, por su parte, los pueblos fuertes puedan convertirse en masas de muros rotos.
[‘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 Por eso sus habitantes no tenían poder, fueron quebrantados y avergonzados; eran como la hierba del campo y la planta verde, como la hierba en los techos que es quemada antes de que crezca.
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 Pero tengo conocimiento de que te levantas y de tu descanso, de tu salida y tu entrada y tu furia contra mi.
“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 Porque tu ira contra mí y tus palabras de orgullo han llegado hasta mis oídos, pondré mi anzuelo en tu nariz y mi freno en tus labios, y te haré volver por el camino que viniste.
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 Y esta será la señal para ti: obtendrás tu comida este año de lo que surja de sí mismo; y en el segundo año a partir del producto del mismo; y en el tercer año pondrás tu semilla y cosecharás harás enredaderas y tomarás de sus frutos.
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 Y los de Judá que aún viven volverán a echar raíces en la tierra y darán fruto.
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 de Jerusalén saldrán los que han estado a salvo, y los que aún viven saldrán del monte Sión: por el propósito fijo del Señor de los ejércitos, esto se hará.
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 Por esta causa que el Señor dice acerca del rey de Asiria, Él no vendrá a esta ciudad, ni enviará una flecha contra ella; no vendrá con armas, ni levantará una rampa de tierra contra ella;
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 Por el camino que vino, volverá y no entrará en este pueblo, dice el Señor.
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 mantendré a salvo este pueblo, por mi honor y por el honor de mi siervo David.
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 Y esa noche salió el ángel del Señor y mató en el ejército de los asirios ciento ochenta y cinco mil hombres; y cuando la gente se levantó temprano en la mañana, no había nada que ver, excepto 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 Entonces Senaquerib, rey de Asiria, volvió a su lugar en Nínive.
Then King Sennacherib left and went home to Nineveh, [the capital of Assyria].
37 Y sucedió que cuando estaba adorando en la casa de su dios Nisroc, sus hijos Adramelec y Sarezer lo mataron con la espada; Y salieron en vuelo a la tierra de Ararat. Y su hijo Esarhadón se hizo rey en su lugar.
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.
