Isaiah 37
1 It came about that when King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh.
希則克雅王一聽這話，就撕破了自己的衣服，穿上苦衣，走進了上主的殿；
2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, all covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet.
然後打發厄里雅金家宰、舍布納書記和幾位老司祭，穿著苦衣，去見阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞先知，
3 They said to him, “Hezekiah says, 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, like when a child is ready to be born, but the mother has no strength to give birth to her child.
對他說：「希則克雅這樣說：今天是受困難、受責罰，受凌辱的日子！因為嬰兒到了要出生的時候，卻沒有產生的力量。
4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of the chief commander, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Now lift up your prayer for the remnant that is still here.'”
但願上主你的天主聽見了那大將軍的話－－即他的主子亞述王派他來辱罵永生的天主所說的話－－願上主你的天主聽了那些話而加以懲罰。請你為剩下的人民祈禱罷！」
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah,
希則克雅王的臣僕來到了依撒意亞前，
6 and Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master: 'Yahweh says, “Do not be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me.
依撒意亞對他們說：「你們要這樣對你們的主上說：上主這樣說：你聽到亞述王的僕人辱罵我的話，不要害怕！
7 Look, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear a certain report and go back to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”'”
看，我必叫他感到一種怕情，使他一聽到某種消息，就返回本國；我要使他在本國內喪身刀下。」
8 Then the chief commander returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had gone away from Lachish.
大將軍回去時，正遇見亞述王去攻打里貝納，原來他已聽說君王離開了拉基士。
9 Then Sennacherib heard that Tirhakah king of Cush and Egypt had mobilized to fight against him, so he sent messengers again to Hezekiah with a message:
那時散乃黑黎布聽人說：雇士王提爾哈卡出來攻打他，就再派使者去見希則克雅，並吩咐說：「
10 “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.”
你們要這樣對猶大王希則克雅說：不要讓你所依賴的天主哄騙你說：耶路撒冷決不會落在亞述王手中！
11 See, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them completely. So will you be rescued?
看，你聽說過亞述的列王對各國所行的，將各國完全消滅了，你還能有救嗎﹖
12 Have the gods of the nations rescued them, the nations that my fathers destroyed: Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Tel Assar?
我祖先消滅的所有民族如：哥倉、哈郎、勒責夫，以及在特拉撒爾的厄登子民，他們的神何嘗救了他們﹖
13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the cities of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'”
哈瑪特王、阿帕得王、色法瓦因城的王、赫納王和依瓦王，他們現今都在那裏﹖」
14 Hezekiah received this letter from hand of the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the house of Yahweh and spread it before him.
希則克雅從使者手中接過信來，讀了以後，就走進上主的殿；將那信在上主面前展開，
15 Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh:
然後希則克雅懇求上主說：「
16 “Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, you who sit above the cherubim, you are God alone over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.
萬軍的上主，坐在革魯賓上面的以色列的天主，唯獨你是地上萬國的天主，你創造了天地。
17 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and listen. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see, and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
上主，請你側耳傾聽！ 上主，求你睜眼垂視！細聽那打發使者辱罵永生天主的散乃黑黎布的一切話 ！
18 It is true, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations and their lands.
上主，的確，亞述的列王曾毀滅了所有的民族和他們的土地，
19 They have put their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, just wood and stone. So the Assyrians have destroyed them.
將他們的神像投入火中，因為它們不是神，只是人手造成的木石的作品，所以能被消滅。
20 So now, Yahweh our God, save us from his power, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh alone.”
但是現今，上主，我們的天主，求你拯救我們脫離他的手，好使世上萬國都知道：惟獨你是上主天主。」
21 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, 'Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,
那時，阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞打發人去見希則克雅說：「上主以色列的天主這樣說：你既然為了亞述王散乃黑黎布而向我懇求，我已經俯聽了你。
22 this is the word that Yahweh has spoken about him: “The virgin daughter of Zion despises you and laughs you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head at you.
這就是上主論他所說的話：熙雍貞女輕視你，嘲笑你；耶路撒冷少女在你背後搖頭！
23 Whom have you defied and insulted? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel.
你辱罵詛咒的是誰﹖你提高聲音，仰起眼睛攻擊的是誰﹖是攻擊以色列的聖者。
24 By your servants you have defied the Lord and have said, 'With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the highest elevations of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and choice cypress trees there, and I will enter into its farthest high places, its most fruitful forest.
你藉你的僕人辱罵了吾主，你說：我用我的大批車輛，登上了叢山的極峰，到黎巴嫩的山頂，砍伐了其中 最高的香柏，最好的青松；我衝入了人跡罕到之處，走進了果木的林園。
25 I have dug wells and drunk water; I dried up all the rivers of Egypt under the soles of my feet.'
我掘了井，喝了外邦的水，用我的腳掌踏乾了埃及所有的河川。
26 Have you not heard how I determined it long ago and worked it out in ancient times? Now I am bringing it to pass. You are here to reduce impregnable cities into heaps of ruins.
難道你沒有聽見：很久以前我所計劃的，昔日我所決定的，現在我就實現，叫你毀壞堅城，化為廢墟，
27 Their inhabitants, of little strength, are shattered and ashamed. They are plants in the field, green grass, the grass on the roof or in the field, before the east wind.
使城中的居民軟弱無力，驚惶失措，有如田野的青草，有如青綠的嫩苗，有如屋頂上被東風吹焦的小草。
28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
你或起或坐，或出或入，以及對我的癲狂，我都知道。
29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose, and my bit in your mouth; I will turn you back the way you came.”
因為你對我的暴怒，和你的狂囂，已達到我的耳鼓，所以我要把環子穿在你的鼻子上，把轡頭套在你的嘴上，由你來的路上將你牽回去。
30 This will be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows wild, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year you must plant and harvest, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
這是給你的記號：今年你要吃自然所生的，明年你仍要吃自然所生的，第三年你們要播種收穫，栽種葡萄園，吃園中的果實。
31 The remnant of the house of Judah that survives will again take root and bear fruit.
猶大家所剩餘的人，仍要向下生根，往上結實。
32 For from Jerusalem a remnant will come out; from Mount Zion survivors will come. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.'”
因為剩餘的人將由耶路撒冷而出，逃脫的人將從熙雍山而來：萬軍上主的熱誠必要成就這事。
33 Therefore Yahweh says this about the king of Assyria: “He will not come into this city and he will not shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
為此，上主論亞述王這樣說：他決不會進入這城，決不會向這城放射一箭，決不會持著盾牌，走近城下，造起土堆攻城。
34 The way by which he came will be the same way he will leave; he will not enter this city—this is Yahweh's declaration.
他必要由來路回去，決不能進入這城：上主的斷語。
35 For I will defend this city and rescue it, for my own sake and for David my servant's sake.”
為了我自己，為了我的僕人達味，我必要保護拯救這城。」
36 Then the angel of Yahweh went out and attacked the camp of the Assyrians, putting to death 185,000 soldiers. When the men arose early in the morning, dead bodies lay everywhere.
於是上主的使者出來，在亞述的營裏殺了十八萬五千人。清晨人們起來，見遍地是死屍。
37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria left Israel and went home and stayed in Nineveh.
亞述王散乃黑黎布於是拔營，班師回國，住在尼尼微。
38 Later, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisrok his god, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword. Then they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
當他在自己的神尼色洛客廟裏叩拜的時候，他的兒子阿德辣默肋客和沙勒責爾用劍刺殺了他，然後逃到阿辣辣特地方去了。他的兒子厄撒哈冬繼他為王。
