1 W hen King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.

فَلَمّا سَمِعَ حَزَقِيّا هَذا، مَزَّقَ ثِيابَهُ، وَلَبِسَ خَيشاً حُزناً بِسَبِبِ ما سَمِعَ، ثُمَّ دَخَلَ إلَى بَيتِ اللهِ.

2 A nd he sent Eliakim, who was over his household, Shebna the scribe, and the older priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

وَأرْسَلَ حَزَقِيّا ألِياقِيمُ المَسْؤولُ عَنْ بَيتِ المَلِكِ، وَشِبْنَةُ كاتِبُ المَلِكِ، وَرُؤَساءُ الكَهَنَةِ إلَى النَّبِيِّ إشَعْياءَ بْنِ آمُوصَ، وَهُمْ يَلْبِسُونَ الخَيشَ.

3 T hey said to him, Hezekiah says: This is a day of distress, of rebuke and chastisement, and blasphemous and insolent insult; for children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

فَقالُوا لإشَعْياءَ: «يَقُولُ حَزَقِيّا: ‹هَذا يَوْمُ ضِيقٍ وَتَأْدِيبٍ لَنا، فَكَأنَّ حالَنا هُوَ حالُ امْرأةٍ حانَ وَقْتُ وِلادَتِها، غَيرَ أنَّهُ لا قُوَّةَ فِيها لِلوِلادَةِ.

4 I t may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria has sent to mock, reproach, insult, and defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. So raise your prayer for the remnant that is left.

لَعَلَّ إلَهَكَ يَسْمَعُ كُلَّ كَلامِ رَبْشاقَى الَّذِي أرْسَلَهُ سَيِّدُهُ مَلِكُ أشُّورَ لِيُهِينَ اللهَ الحَيَّ. وَلَعَلَّهُ يُعاقِبُهُ عَلَى الكَلامِ الَّذِي قالَهُ. فَصَلِّ لإلَهِكَ مِنْ أجلِ الأحياءِ الباقِينَ فِي المَدِينَةِ.›»

5 S o the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

فَجاءَ مَسْؤُولُو المَلِكِ إلَى إشَعْياءَ.

6 I saiah said to them, Say to your master, Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled and blasphemed Me.

فَقالَ لَهُمْ إشَعْياءُ: «بَلِّغُوا حَزَقِيّا هَذِهِ الرِّسالَةَ: ‹يَقُولُ اللهُ: لا تَخَفْ بِسَبَبِ ما قالَهُ خُدّامُ مَلِكِ أشُّورَ وَأهانُونِي بِهِ.

7 B ehold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own country.

ها إنِّي واضِعٌ فِيهِ رُوحَ خَوْفٍ. سَيَسْمَعُ إشاعَةً، فَيَعُودُ إلَى بَلَدِهِ. وَهُناكَ سَيَمُوتُ بِالسَّيفِ.›» مَلِكُ أشُّورَ يُنْذِرُ حَزَقِيّا مَرَّةً أُخْرَى

8 S o the Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah; for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

وَسَمِعَ رَبْشاقَى أنَّ مَلِكَ أشُّورَ قَدْ تَرَكَ لَخِيشَ. وَعادَ فَوَجَدَهُ فِي مَدِينَةِ لِبْنَةَ يُحارِبُها.

9 A nd Sennacherib king of Assyria heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He has come to make war against you. And when he heard it, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,

ثُمَّ سَمِعَ مَلِكُ أشُّورَ إشاعَةً عَنْ تِرْهاقَةَ، مَلِكِ الحَبَشَةِ. فَقِيلَ لَهُ: «جاءَ تِرْهاقَةُ كَي يُحارِبَكَ.» فَأرْسَلَ مَلِكُ أشُّورَ مَرَّةً أُخْرَى رُسُلاً إلَى حَزَقِيّا.

10 S ay this to Hezekiah king of Judah: Let not your God on Whom you rely deceive you by saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

وَحَمَّلَهُمْ هَذِهِ الرِّسالَةَ إلَيهِ: «قُولُوا لِمَلِكِ يَهُوذا: ‹يَخدَعُكَ إلَهُكَ الّذِي تَتَّكِلُ عَلَيْهِ حِينَ يَقُولُ: لَنْ يَقْدِرَ مَلِكُ أشُّورَ أنْ يَسْتَولِيَ عَلَى القُدْسِ.

11 B ehold, you have heard what the Assyrian kings have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. And shall you be delivered?

لا بُدَّ أنَّكَ سَمِعْتَ بِما فَعَلَهُ مُلُوكُ أشُّورَ بِكُلِّ البُلْدانِ الأُخْرَى، وَكَيفَ أنَّهُمْ دَمَّرُوها تَدمِيراً! فَكَيفَ تَتَوَهَّمُ أنَّكَ سَتَنْجُو؟

12 H ave the gods of the nations delivered those whom my ancestors have destroyed, as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?

لَمْ تَقدِرْ آلِهَةُ هَذِهِ الشُّعُوبِ أنْ تُنقِذَها. فَقَدْ قَضَى آبائِي عَلَيها. قَضَوْا عَلَى جُوزانَ وَحارانَ وَرَصَفَ وَبَنِي عَدَنَ فِي تَلِّ أسّارَ.

13 W here are the kings of Hamath, of Arpad, of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?

وَأينَ مَلِكُ حَماةَ وَمَلِكُ أرْفادَ وَمَلِكُ مَدِيْنَةِ سَفْراوِيمَ وَمَلِكُ هِينَعَ وَمَلِكَ عِوّا؟›» صلاةُ حَزَقِيّا

14 H ezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. And he went up into the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord.

فَأخَذَ حَزَقِيّا الرَّسائِلَ مِنَ الرُّسُلِ وَقَرَأها. ثُمَّ صَعِدَ إلَى بَيتِ اللهِ وَفَرَدَ الرَّسائِلَ فِي حَضْرَةِ اللهِ.

15 A nd Hezekiah prayed: O Lord, the God of Israel, Who is enthroned above the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth.

وَصَلَّى حَزَقِيّا فِي حَضرَةِ اللهِ وَقالَ: «يا اللهُ ، يا إلَهَ إسْرائِيلَ الجالِسُ عَلَى مَلائِكَةِ الكَرُوبِيمَ. أنْتَ وَحدَكَ إلَهُ كُلِّ مَمالِكِ الأرْضِ. أنْتَ الَّذِي صَنَعَ السَّماواتِ وَالأرْضَ!

16 L ord, bow down Your ear and hear; Lord, open Your eyes and see; hear the words of Sennacherib which he has sent to mock, reproach, insult, and defy the living God.

فَأمِلْ إلَيَّ أُذُنَكَ يا اللهُ. وَافتَحْ عَينَيكَ وَانظُرْ هَذِهِ الرِّسالَةَ. وَاسْمَعْ كَلامَ سَنْحارِيبَ الَّذِي يُهِينُ اللهَ الحَيَّ.

17 I t is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste the nations and their lands

صَحِيحٌ يا اللهُ ، أنَّ مُلُوكَ أشُّورَ دَمَّرُوا الشُّعُوبَ الأُخْرَى وَأراضِيها.

18 A nd have cast the gods of those peoples into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

وَصَحِيحٌ أيضاً أنَّهُمْ ألقَوْا بِآلِهَةِ الأُمَمِ الأُخرَى فِي النّارِ. لَكِنَّها لَمْ تَكُنْ آلِهَةً حَقِيقِيَّةً، وَلَيْسُوا سِوَى صُنْعِ أيْدٍ بَشَرِيَّةٍ، فَهُمْ خَشَبٌ وَحَجَرٌ. وَلِهَذا دُمِّرُوا.

19 N ow therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech You, save us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know and understand that You, O Lord, are God alone.

وَالآنَ يا إلهَنا ، خَلِّصْنا مِنْ يَدِ سَنْحارِيبَ، حَتَّى تَعْرِفَ جَمِيعُ مَمالِكِ الأرْضِ أنَّكَ أنْتَ يهوه هُوَ الإلَهُ الوَحِيدُ.» جَوابُ اللهِ لِحَزقيّا

20 T hen Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Your prayer to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.

عندئذٍ أرْسَلَ إشعياءُ بنُ آمُوصَ بِرِسالةٍ إلَى حَزَقِيّا قالَ فِيها: «هَذا هُوَ ما يَقُولُهُ اللهُ ، إلَهُ إسْرائِيلَ: ‹سَمِعْتُ صَلاتَكَ إليَّ بِخُصُوصِ سَنْحارِيبَ مَلِكِ أشُّورَ.

21 T his is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: The Virgin Daughter of Zion has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the Daughter of Jerusalem has wagged her head behind you.

«هَذا هُوَ ما يَقُولُهُ اللهُ بِشَأْنِهِ: ‹يا سَنْحارِيبُ، احتقرَتْكَ وَاسْتَهْزَأتْ بِكَ العَذْراءُ العَزيزَةُ صِهْيَوْنُ، وَتَهُزُّ العَزيزَةُ القُدْسُ رَأْسَها عِنْدَ هَرَبِكَ.

22 W hom have you mocked and reviled and insulted and blasphemed? Against Whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

مَنْ عَيَّرَتَ؟ وَعَلَى مَنْ جدَّفتَ؟ وَعَلَى مَنْ رَفَعْتَ صَوتَكَ، وَرَفَعْتَ عُيونَكَ بِكِبْرِياءٍ؟ أَعَلى قُدُّوسِ إسْرائِيلَ؟

23 B y your messengers you have mocked, reproached, insulted, and defied the Lord, and have said, With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedar trees and its choicest cypress trees. I entered its most distant retreat, its densest forest.

عيَّرتَ الرَّبَّ من خِلالِ خدّامِكَ الَّذِينَ أرْسَلْتَهُمْ. قُلْتَ: ‹بِمَرْكَباتِي الكَثِيرَةِ صَعِدْتُ إلَى أعالِي الجِبالِ وَإلَى قِمَمِ لُبْنانَ. قَطَعْتُ أعلى أشْجارِ الأرْزِ، وَأفْضَلَ أشْجارِ السَّروِ. صَعِدْتُ إلَى أعلَى قِمَمِهِ، وَإلَى أكْثَرِ غاباتِهِ كَثافَةً.

24 I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Egypt.

حَفَرْتُ آباراً، وَشَرِبْتُ ماءَ الأراضِي الأُخْرَى. وَبِباطِنِ أقْدامِي جفَّفْتُ كُلَّ أنْهارِ مِصْرَ وَسَواقِيها.›

25 H ave you not heard how I ordained long ago what now I have brought to pass? I planned it in olden times, that you should lay waste fortified cities, making them ruinous heaps.

لَكِنْ ألَمْ تَسْمَعْ بِما خَطَّطتُ لَهُ؟ بِما خَطَّطْتُ لَهُ منذُ القديمِ، وَالآنَ جعلتُهُ يحدثُ؟ فَقَدْ خَطَّطْتُ لأنْ تُحَوِّلَ المُدُنَ الحَصِينَةَ إلَى تِلالِ حُطامٍ،

26 T hat is why their inhabitants had little power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were like plants of the field, the green herb, the grass on the housetops, blasted before it is grown up.

بَيْنَما شَعبُ هَذِهِ المُدُنِ ضُعَفاءُ وَمُرْتَعِبِينَ. مِثلَ عُشْبٍ فِي الحَقلِ وَحَشِيشٍ أخْضَرَ، مِثلَ العُشْبِ عَلى سُطُوحِ المَنازِلِ، تُحرِقُهُ الرِّياحُ الشَّرْقِيَّةُ.

27 B ut I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against Me.

أنا أعْرِفُ مَتى تَقُومُ وَمَتى تَجلِسُ، وَمَتى تَخْرُجُ وَمَتى تَدْخُلُ، وَأعْرِفُ ثَوَرانَكَ عَليَّ.

28 B ecause your raging against Me and your arrogance and careless ease have come to My ears, therefore I will put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way you came, O king of Assyria.

لأنَّكَ ثُرْتَ عَليَّ، وَأنا سَمِعْتُ كَلامَك المُتَكَبِّرَ، فَسَأضَعُ الخُطّافَ فِي أنْفِكَ، وَالرَّسَنَ فِي فَمِكَ، وَسَأجْعَلُكَ تَعُودُ إلى أرْضِكَ فِي الطَّرِيقِ الَّذِي جِئْتَ بِهِ.›»

29 A nd this shall be the sign to you: you shall eat this year what grows of itself, also in the second year what springs up voluntarily. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

«وَهَذِهِ هِيَ العَلامَةُ عَلَى أنِّي سَأُعِينُكَ، يا حَزَقِيّا: سَتَأْكُلُ هَذِهِ السَّنَةَ زَرْعاً يَنْمُو وَحدَهُ. وَفِي السَّنَةِ القادِمَةِ سَتَأْكُلُ زَرْعاً يَنْمُو مِنْ بُذُورِ المَحْصوُلِ السّابِقِ. أمّا فِي السَّنَةِ الثّالِثَةِ فَسَتَحْصُدُونَ ما تَزْرَعُونَ. وَتَغْرِسُونَ كُرُوماً وَتَأْكُلُونَ مِنْها عِنَباً.

30 A nd the remnant that has survived of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

أمّا النّاجُونَ مِنْ عَشِيرَةِ يَهُوذا فَسَيَعُودُونَ، وَسَيُعَمِّقُونَ جُذُورَهُمْ فِي الأرْضِ وَيَنْمُونَ.

31 F or out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and a band of survivors out of Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.

لِأنَّهُ سَتَبْقَى بَقِيَّةٌ وَتَخرُجُ مِنَ القُدْسِ، مِنْ جَبَلِ صِهْيَوْنَ. اللهُ القَدِيرُ يَصنَعُ هَذا بِسَبَبِ غَيْرَتِهِ.

32 T herefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow here or come before it with shield or cast up a siege mound against it.

«هَذا هُوَ ما يَقُولُهُ اللهُ عَنْ مَلِكِ أشُّورَ: ‹لَنْ يَدخُلَ هَذِهِ المَدِينَةَ، أوْ يُطلِقَ فِيها سَهْماً واحِداً. لَنْ يَقْتَرِبَ إلَى المَدِينَةِ بِأتْراسِهِ، أوْ يَبْنِيَ بُرْجَ حِصارٍ عَلَيها.

33 B y the way that he came, by that way shall he return, and he shall not come into this city, says the Lord.

فِي الطَّرِيقِ الَّذِي جاءَ مِنْهُ سَيَرْجِعُ. لَنْ يَدخُلَ هَذِهِ المَدِينَةَ. هَذا هُوَ ما يَقُولُهُ اللهُ.

34 F or I will defend this city to save it, for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.

سَأُدافِعُ عَنِ هذِهِ المَدِينَةِ وَأُنْقِذُها. مِنْ أجلِ داوُدَ، وَمِنْ أجلِ اسْمِي، سَأفْعَلُ هَذا.›» القَضاءُ عَلَى الجَيشِ الأشُّورِيّ

35 A nd it all came to pass, for that night the Angel of the Lord went forth and slew 185, 000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when arose early in the morning, behold, all these were dead bodies.

فِي تِلْكَ اللَّيلَةِ خَرَجَ مَلاكُ اللهِ وَقَتَلَ مِئَةً وَخَمْساً وَثَمانِينَ ألْفَ جُنْدِيٍّ فِي مُعَسْكَرِ الأشُّورِيِّينَ. وَلَمّا أفاقَ الأشُّورِيُّونَ فِي الصَّباحِ، رَأَوْا كُلَّ جُثَثِ القَتلَى.

36 S o Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned and dwelt at Nineveh.

فَغادَرَ سَنْحارِيبُ، مَلِكُ أشُّورَ، ذَلِكَ المَكانَ عائِداً إلَى نِينَوَى حَيثُ أقامَ.

37 A nd as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Armenia or Ararat. Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

وَذاتَ يَوْمٍ كانَ يَعبُدُ فِي هَيكَلِ إلَهِهِ نَسْرُوخَ. فَقَتَلَهُ ابْناهُ أدْرَمَّلَكُ وَشَرآصِرَ بِالسَّيفِ. ثُمَّ هَرَبا إلَى أرْضِ أراراطَ. وَخَلَفَهُ فِي الحُكْمِ ابْنُهُ آسَرْحَدُّونَ.