列王纪下 19
1 希西家王听见，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进了耶和华的殿；
And it cometh to pass, at king Hezekiah's hearing, that he rendeth his garments, and covereth himself with sackcloth, and entereth the house of Jehovah,
2 使家宰以利亚敬和书记舍伯那，并祭司中的长老，都披上麻布，去见亚摩斯的儿子先知以赛亚，
and sendeth Eliakim, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz,
3 对他说：“希西家如此说：‘今日是急难、责罚、凌辱的日子，就如妇人将要生产婴孩，却没有力量生产。
and they say unto him, 'Thus said Hezekiah — A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising [is] this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bring forth.
4 或者耶和华—你的 神听见拉伯沙基的一切话，就是他主人亚述王打发他来辱骂永生 神的话，耶和华—你的 神听见这话，就发斥责。故此，求你为余剩的民扬声祷告。’”
'It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear all the words of the chief of the butlers with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.'
5 希西家王的臣仆就去见以赛亚。
And the servants of king Hezekiah come in unto Isaiah,
6 以赛亚对他们说：“要这样对你们的主人说，耶和华如此说：‘你听见亚述王的仆人亵渎我的话，不要惧怕。
and Isaiah saith to them, 'Thus do ye say unto your lord: Thus said Jehovah, Be not afraid because of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me.
7 我必惊动他的心，他要听见风声就归回本地。我必使他在那里倒在刀下。’”
Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he hath heard a report, and hath turned back to his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.'
8 拉伯沙基回去，正遇见亚述王攻打立拿，原来他早听见亚述王拔营离开拉吉。
And the chief of the butlers turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he hath heard that he hath journeyed from Lachish.
9 亚述王听见人论古实王特哈加说：“他出来要与你争战。”于是亚述王又打发使者去见希西家，吩咐他们说：
And he heareth concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, 'Lo, he hath come out to fight with thee;' and he turneth and sendeth messengers unto Hezekiah, saying,
10 “你们对犹大王希西家如此说：‘不要听你所倚靠的 神欺哄你，说耶路撒冷必不交在亚述王的手中。
'Thus do ye speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God lift thee up in whom thou art trusting, saying, Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.
11 你总听说亚述诸王向列国所行的，乃是尽行灭绝，难道你还能得救吗？
Lo, thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands — to devote them; and thou art delivered!
12 我列祖所毁灭的，就是歌散、哈兰、利色，和属提·拉撒的伊甸人，这些国的神何曾拯救这些国呢？
did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed — Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who [are] in Thelassar?
13 哈马的王、亚珥拔的王、西法瓦音城的王、希拿，和以瓦的王都在哪里呢？’”
Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'
14 希西家从使者手里接过书信来，看完了，就上耶和华的殿，将书信在耶和华面前展开。
And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and readeth them, and goeth up to the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah.
15 希西家向耶和华祷告说：“坐在二基路伯上耶和华—以色列的 神啊，你是天下万国的 神，你曾创造天地。
And Hezekiah prayeth before Jehovah, and saith, 'O Jehovah, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubs, Thou [art] God Himself — Thyself alone — to all the kingdoms of the earth: Thou hast made the heavens and the earth.
16 耶和华啊，求你侧耳而听！耶和华啊，求你睁眼而看！要听西拿基立打发使者来辱骂永生 神的话。
Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes, and see; and hear Thou the words of Sennacherib with which he hath sent him to reproach the living God.
17 耶和华啊，亚述诸王果然使列国和列国之地变为荒凉，
'Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste the nations, and their land,
18 将列国的神像都扔在火里；因为它本不是神，乃是人手所造的，是木头石头的，所以灭绝它。
and have put their gods into fire, for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone, and destroy them.
19 耶和华—我们的 神啊，现在求你救我们脱离亚述王的手，使天下万国都知道惟独你—耶和华是 神！”
And now, O Jehovah our God, save us, we pray Thee, out of his hand, and know do all kingdoms of the earth that Thou [art] Jehovah God — Thyself alone.'
20 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚就打发人去见希西家，说：“耶和华—以色列的 神如此说：‘你既然求我攻击亚述王西拿基立，我已听见了。’
And Isaiah son of Amoz sendeth unto Hezekiah, saying, 'Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed unto Me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur I have heard:
21 耶和华论他这样说： 锡安的处女藐视你，嗤笑你； 耶路撒冷的女子向你摇头。
this [is] the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: 'Trampled on thee — laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion Behind thee shaken the head — Hath the daughter of Jerusalem?
22 你辱骂谁？亵渎谁？ 扬起声来，高举眼目攻击谁呢？ 乃是攻击以色列的圣者！
Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up a voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes — Against the Holy One of Israel!
23 你借你的使者辱骂主， 并说：我率领许多战车上山顶， 到黎巴嫩极深之处； 我要砍伐其中高大的香柏树和佳美的松树； 我必上极高之处，进入肥田的树林。
By the hand of thy messengers Thou hast reproached the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of mountains — The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the lodging of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.
24 我已经在外邦挖井喝水； 我必用脚掌踏干埃及的一切河。
I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
25 耶和华说，我早先所做的， 古时所立的，就是现在借你 使坚固城荒废，变为乱堆， 这事你岂没有听见吗？
Hast thou not heard from afar, it I made, From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becometh a desolation, Ruinous heaps [are] fenced cities,
26 所以其中的居民力量甚小， 惊惶羞愧。 他们像野草，像青菜， 如房顶上的草， 又如未长成而枯干的禾稼。
And their inhabitants [are] feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up, They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn — before it hath risen up!
27 你坐下，你出去，你进来， 你向我发烈怒，我都知道。
And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thine anger towards Me;
28 因你向我发烈怒， 又因你狂傲的话达到我耳中， 我就要用钩子钩上你的鼻子， 把嚼环放在你口里， 使你从你来的路转回去。
Because of thine anger towards Me, And thy noise — it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And have caused thee to turn back, In the way in which thou camest.
29 “以色列人哪，我赐你们一个证据：你们今年要吃自生的，明年也要吃自长的；至于后年，你们要耕种收割，栽植葡萄园，吃其中的果子。
And this to thee [is] the sign, Food of the year [is] the spontaneous growth, And in the second year the self-produced, And in the third year sow ye, and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.
30 犹大家所逃脱余剩的，仍要往下扎根，向上结果。
And it hath continued — The escaped of the house of Judah That hath been left — to take root beneath, And hath made fruit upward.
31 必有余剩的民从耶路撒冷而出；必有逃脱的人从锡安山而来。耶和华的热心必成就这事。
For from Jerusalem goeth out a remnant, And an escape from mount Zion; The zeal of Jehovah [of Hosts] doth this.
32 “所以，耶和华论亚述王如此说：‘他必不得来到这城，也不在这里射箭，不得拿盾牌到城前，也不筑垒攻城。
Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Concerning the king of Asshur: He doth not come in unto this city, Nor doth he shoot there an arrow, Nor doth he come before it with shield. Nor doth he pour out against it a mount.
33 他从哪条路来，必从那条路回去，必不得来到这城。这是耶和华说的。
In the way that he cometh in — In it he turneth back, And unto this city he doth not come in, The affirmation of Jehovah —
34 因我为自己的缘故，又为我仆人大卫的缘故，必保护拯救这城。’”
And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'
35 当夜，耶和华的使者出去，在亚述营中杀了十八万五千人。清早有人起来，一看，都是死尸了。
And it cometh to pass, in that night, that a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred eighty and five thousand, and they rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them [are] dead corpses.
36 亚述王西拿基立就拔营回去，住在尼尼微。
And Sennacherib king of Asshur journeyeth, and goeth, and turneth back, and dwelleth in Nineveh;
37 一日在他的神尼斯洛庙里叩拜，他儿子亚得米勒和沙利色用刀杀了他，就逃到亚拉腊地。他儿子以撒哈顿接续他作王。
and it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adramelech and Sharezar [his sons] have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.
