Isaiah 37
1 and to be like/as to hear: hear [the] king Hezekiah and to tear [obj] garment his and to cover in/on/with sackcloth and to come (in): come house: temple LORD
When Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went into the Lord's Temple.
2 and to send: depart [obj] Eliakim which upon [the] house: temple and [obj] Shebna [the] secretary and [obj] old: elder [the] priest to cover in/on/with sackcloth to(wards) Isaiah son: child Amoz [the] prophet
He sent Eliakim the palace manager, Shebna, the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to see the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz.
3 and to say to(wards) him thus to say Hezekiah day distress and rebuke and contempt [the] day [the] this for to come (in): come son: child till birth and strength nothing to/for to beget
They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of trouble and of punishment. It's like when babies arrive at the entrance to the birth canal but there's no strength to deliver them.
4 perhaps to hear: hear LORD God your [obj] word Rabshakeh Rabshakeh which to send: depart him king Assyria lord his to/for to taunt God alive and to rebuke in/on/with word which to hear: hear LORD God your and to lift: raise prayer about/through/for [the] remnant [the] to find
Maybe the Lord your God, hearing the message the army commander delivered on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria—a message sent to insult the living God—will punish him for his words. Please say a prayer for the remnant of us who still survive.”
5 and to come (in): come servant/slave [the] king Hezekiah to(wards) Isaiah
After Hezekiah's officials delivered his message to Isaiah,
6 and to say to(wards) them Isaiah thus to say [emph?] to(wards) lord your thus to say LORD not to fear from face of [the] word which to hear: hear which to blaspheme youth king Assyria [obj] me
Isaiah replied to them, “Tell your master, This is what the Lord says: Don't be frightened by the words that you have heard, the words used by the servants of the king of Assyria to blaspheme me.
7 look! I to give: put in/on/with him spirit and to hear: hear tidings and to return: return to(wards) land: country/planet his and to fall: kill him in/on/with sword in/on/with land: country/planet his
Look, I'm going to scare him—he'll hear a rumor, and he'll have to return to his own country. When he's there I'll have him killed by the sword.”
8 and to return: return Rabshakeh Rabshakeh and to find [obj] king Assyria to fight upon Libnah for to hear: hear for to set out from Lachish
The Assyrian army commander left and went back to join the king of Assyria, having heard the king had left Lachish and was attacking Libnah.
9 and to hear: hear upon Tirhakah king Cush to/for to say to come out: come to/for to fight with you and to hear: hear and to send: depart messenger to(wards) Hezekiah to/for to say
Sennacherib had received a message about Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, that said, “Watch out! He is coming to attack you.” So Sennacherib sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,
10 thus to say [emph?] to(wards) Hezekiah king Judah to/for to say not to deceive you God your which you(m. s.) to trust in/on/with him to/for to say not to give: give Jerusalem in/on/with hand: power king Assyria
“Tell Hezekiah, king of Judah: ‘Don't let your God, the one you're trusting in, fool you by saying that Jerusalem won't fall into the hands of the king of Assyria.
11 behold you(m. s.) to hear: hear which to make: do king Assyria to/for all [the] land: country/planet to/for to devote/destroy them and you(m. s.) to rescue
Look! You've heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries they've invaded— they destroyed them completely! Do you really think you'll be saved?
12 to rescue [obj] them God [the] nation which to ruin father my [obj] Gozan and [obj] Haran and Rezeph and son: descendant/people Eden which in/on/with Telassar
Did the gods of the nations my forefathers destroyed save them—the gods of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who lived in Telassar?
13 where? king Hamath and king Arpad and king city Sepharvaim Hena and Ivvah
Where today is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?”
14 and to take: recieve Hezekiah [obj] [the] scroll: document from hand [the] messenger and to call: read out him and to ascend: rise house: temple LORD and to spread him Hezekiah to/for face: before LORD
Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the Lord's Temple and opened it out before the Lord.
15 and to pray Hezekiah to(wards) LORD to/for to say
Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying,
16 LORD Hosts God Israel to dwell [the] cherub you(m. s.) he/she/it [the] God to/for alone you to/for all kingdom [the] land: country/planet you(m. s.) to make [obj] [the] heaven and [obj] [the] land: country/planet
“Lord Almighty, God of Israel, you who live above the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth, you are Creator of heaven and earth.
17 to stretch LORD ear your and to hear: hear to open LORD eye your and to see: see and to hear: hear [obj] all word Sennacherib which to send: depart to/for to taunt God alive
Please listen with your ears, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see. Listen to the message that Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God.
18 truly LORD to destroy king Assyria [obj] all [the] land: country/planet and [obj] land: country/planet their
Yes, it's true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have destroyed these nations and their lands.
19 and to give: throw [obj] God their in/on/with fire for not God they(masc.) that if: except if: except deed: work hand man tree: wood and stone and to perish them
They have thrown their gods into the fire because they are not really gods—they are just the work of human hands, made of wood and stone so they could destroy them.
20 and now LORD God our to save us from hand: power his and to know all kingdom [the] land: country/planet for you(m. s.) LORD to/for alone you
Now, Lord our God, please save us from him, in order that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that only you, Lord, are God.”
21 and to send: depart Isaiah son: child Amoz to(wards) Hezekiah to/for to say thus to say LORD God Israel which to pray to(wards) me to(wards) Sennacherib king Assyria
Then Isaiah, son of Amoz, sent a message to Hezekiah, saying, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Because you've prayed to me about Sennacherib, king of Assyria,
22 this [the] word which to speak: speak LORD upon him to despise to/for you to mock to/for you virgin daughter Zion after you head to shake daughter Jerusalem
this is the word of the Lord condemning him: The virgin daughter of Zion scorns you and mocks you; the daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head as you run away.
23 [obj] who? to taunt and to blaspheme and upon who? to exalt voice and to lift: look height eye your to(wards) holy Israel
Who have you been insulting and ridiculing? Who did you raise your voice against? Who did you look at with so proud eyes? It was against the Holy One of Israel!
24 in/on/with hand: by servant/slave your to taunt Lord and to say in/on/with abundance chariot my I to ascend: rise height mountain: mount flank Lebanon and to cut: cut height cedar his best cypress his and to come (in): come height end his wood plantation his
By your servants you have mocked the Lord. You said: ‘With my many chariots I have ascended to the high mountains, to the farthest peaks of Lebanon. I have chopped down its tallest cedars, the best of its cypress trees. I have reached its most distant heights, its deepest forests.
25 I to dig and to drink water and to dry in/on/with palm: sole beat my all stream Egypt
I have dug wells and drunk water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers in Egypt.’”
26 not to hear: hear to/for from distant [obj] her to make: do from day front: old and to form: plan her now to come (in): come her and to be to/for to crash heap to desolate city to gather/restrain/fortify
The Lord replies, “Haven't you heard? I decided it long ago; I planned it in the olden days. Now I am making sure it happens—that you are to knock down fortified towns into piles of rubble.
27 and to dwell their short hand: power to to be dismayed and be ashamed to be vegetation land: country and herb grass grass roof and field to/for face: before standing grain
Their people, powerless, are terrified and humiliated. They're like plants in a field, like soft green shoots, like grass that sprouts on the rooftop—scorched before it can even grow.
28 and to dwell you and to come out: come you and to come (in): come you to know and [obj] to tremble you to(wards) me
But I know you very well—where you live, when you come in, when you leave, and your furious anger against me.
29 because to tremble you to(wards) me and secure your to ascend: rise in/on/with ear my and to set: put hook my in/on/with face: nose your and bridle my in/on/with lips your and to return: return you in/on/with way: road which to come (in): come in/on/with her
Because of your furious anger against me, and because I know how you disrespect me, I'm going to put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will force you to return the same way you came.”
30 and this to/for you [the] sign: indicator to eat [the] year aftergrowth and in/on/with year [the] second offspring and in/on/with year [the] third to sow and to reap and to plant vineyard (and to eat *Qk) fruit their
“Hezekiah, this will be a sign to prove this is true: This year you'll eat what grows by itself. The second year you'll eat what grows from that. But in the third year you'll sow and reap, you'll plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
31 and to add: again survivor house: household Judah [the] to remain root to/for beneath and to make fruit to/for above [to]
The remnant that's left of Judah will revive again, sending roots below and bearing fruit above.
32 for from Jerusalem to come out: come remnant and survivor from mountain: mount Zion jealousy LORD Hosts to make: do this
For a remnant will come out of Jerusalem, and survivors will come from Mount Zion. The intense determination of the Lord will make sure this happens.
33 to/for so thus to say LORD to(wards) king Assyria not to come (in): come to(wards) [the] city [the] this and not to shoot there arrow and not to meet her shield and not to pour: build siege mound upon her mound
This is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: He shall not enter this city or shoot an arrow at it. He shall not advance towards it with a shield, or build a siege ramp against it.
34 in/on/with way: road which to come (in): come in/on/with her to return: return and to(wards) [the] city [the] this not to come (in): come utterance LORD
He shall return the same way he came, and he shall not enter this city, says the Lord.
35 and to defend upon [the] city [the] this to/for to save her because me and because David servant/slave my
I will defend this city and save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
36 and to come out: come messenger: angel LORD and to smite in/on/with camp Assyria hundred and eighty and five thousand and to rise in/on/with morning and behold all their corpse to die
Then the angel of the Lord went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 of them. When the survivors woke up in the morning, they were surrounded by dead bodies.
37 and to set out and to go: went and to return: return Sennacherib king Assyria and to dwell in/on/with Nineveh
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, gave up and left. He returned home to Nineveh and stayed there.
38 and to be he/she/it to bow house: temple Nisroch God his and Adrammelech and Sharezer son: child his to smite him in/on/with sword and they(masc.) to escape land: country/planet Ararat and to reign Esarhaddon Esarhaddon son: child his underneath: instead him
While he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword and then ran away to the land of Ararat. His son Esar-haddon succeeded him as king.
