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

And when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and entered the house of the Lord.

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

Then he sent Eliakim who was over the household with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

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

They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and rejection; for children have come to birth and there is no strength to deliver.

4 ل َعَلَّ 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.›»

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

5 ف َجاءَ مَسْؤُولُو المَلِكِ إلَى إشَعْياءَ.

So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

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

Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

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

Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”’” Sennacherib Defies God

8 و َسَمِعَ رَبْشاقَى أنَّ مَلِكَ أشُّورَ قَدْ تَرَكَ لَخِيشَ. وَعادَ فَوَجَدَهُ فِي مَدِينَةِ لِبْنَةَ يُحارِبُها.

Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

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

When he heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you,” he sent messengers again to Hezekiah saying,

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

“Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you saying, “ Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

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

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be spared?

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

Did the gods of those nations which my fathers destroyed deliver them, even Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?

13 و َأينَ مَلِكُ حَماةَ وَمَلِكُ أرْفادَ وَمَلِكُ مَدِيْنَةِ سَفْراوِيمَ وَمَلِكُ هِينَعَ وَمَلِكَ عِوّا؟›» صلاةُ حَزَقِيّا

Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?’” Hezekiah’s Prayer

14 ف َأخَذَ حَزَقِيّا الرَّسائِلَ مِنَ الرُّسُلِ وَقَرَأها. ثُمَّ صَعِدَ إلَى بَيتِ اللهِ وَفَرَدَ الرَّسائِلَ فِي حَضْرَةِ اللهِ.

Then Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord.

15 و َصَلَّى 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!

Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

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

Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

17 ص َحِيحٌ يا اللهُ ، أنَّ مُلُوكَ أشُّورَ دَمَّرُوا الشُّعُوبَ الأُخْرَى وَأراضِيها.

Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands

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

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

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

Now, O Lord our God, I pray, deliver us from his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O Lord, are God.” God’s Answer through Isaiah

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

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard you.’

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

This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: ‘She has despised you and mocked you, The virgin daughter of Zion; She has shaken her head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!

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

‘Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice, And haughtily lifted up your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

23 ع يَّرتَ 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.

‘ Through your messengers you have reproached the Lord, And you have said, “With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotest parts of Lebanon; And I cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses. And I entered its farthest lodging place, its thickest forest.

24 ح َفَرْتُ آباراً، وَشَرِبْتُ ماءَ الأراضِي الأُخْرَى. وَبِباطِنِ أقْدامِي جفَّفْتُ كُلَّ أنْهارِ مِصْرَ وَسَواقِيها.›

“I dug wells and drank foreign waters, And with the sole of my feet I dried up All the rivers of Egypt.”

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

‘ Have you not heard? Long ago I did it; From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

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

‘Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb, As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

27 أ نا أعْرِفُ مَتى تَقُومُ وَمَتى تَجلِسُ، وَمَتى تَخْرُجُ وَمَتى تَدْخُلُ، وَأعْرِفُ ثَوَرانَكَ عَليَّ.

‘But I know your sitting down, And your going out and your coming in, And your raging against Me.

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

‘Because of your raging against Me, And because your arrogance has come up 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 which you came.

29 « 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.

‘Then this shall be the sign for you: you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

30 أ مّا النّاجُونَ مِنْ عَشِيرَةِ يَهُوذا فَسَيَعُودُونَ، وَسَيُعَمِّقُونَ جُذُورَهُمْ فِي الأرْضِ وَيَنْمُونَ.

The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

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

For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion survivors. The zeal of the Lord will perform this.

32 « 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.

‘Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, “ He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield or throw up a siege ramp against it.

33 ف ِي الطَّرِيقِ الَّذِي جاءَ مِنْهُ سَيَرْجِعُ. لَنْ يَدخُلَ هَذِهِ المَدِينَةَ. هَذا هُوَ ما يَقُولُهُ اللهُ.

By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,”’ declares the Lord.

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

‘ For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”

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

Then it happened that night that the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185, 000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were dead.

36 ف َغادَرَ سَنْحارِيبُ، مَلِكُ أشُّورَ، ذَلِكَ المَكانَ عائِداً إلَى نِينَوَى حَيثُ أقامَ.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home, and lived at Nineveh.

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

It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.