2 Raja-raja 19
1 Pada waktu Raja Hizkia mendengar laporan dari ketiga orang itu, ia merobek pakaiannya dan memakai kain karung tanda sedih, lalu pergi ke Rumah TUHAN.
And it came to pass when king Ezekias heard it, that he tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth, an went into the house of the Lord.
2 Kemudian ia mengutus Elyakim, kepala istana, Sebna sekretaris negara, dan para imam yang sudah tua, untuk menemui Nabi Yesaya anak Amos. Mereka pun memakai kain karung.
And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests, clothed with sackcloth, to Esaias the prophet the son of Amos.
3 Inilah pesan Hizkia yang mereka sampaikan kepada Yesaya, "Hari ini hari dukacita; kita dihukum dan dihina. Kita seperti wanita yang sudah mau bersalin tetapi kehabisan tenaga.
And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias, This day [is] a day of tribulation, and rebuke, and provocation: for the children are come to the travail-[pangs], but the mother has no strength.
4 Raja Asyur telah mengutus seorang perwira tingginya untuk menghina Allah yang hidup. Siapa tahu TUHAN Allahmu telah mendengar penghinaan itu, dan akan menghukum mereka yang mengucapkannya! Karena itu berdoalah kepada Allah untuk orang-orang kita yang masih hidup."
Peradventure the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rapsakes, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God and to revile him with the words which the Lord your God has heard: and you shall offer [your] prayer for the remnant that is found.
5 Setelah menerima pesan dari Raja Hizkia itu,
So the servants of king Ezekias came to Esaias.
6 Yesaya menyuruh para utusan itu menyampaikan jawaban ini, "TUHAN berkata, Baginda tidak usah takut mendengar pernyataan hamba-hamba raja Asyur itu bahwa TUHAN tidak dapat melepaskan kita.
And Esaias said to them, Thus shall you say to your master, Thus says the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which you have heard, wherewith the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed.
7 TUHAN akan membuat raja Asyur memperhatikan suatu kabar angin sehingga ia kembali ke negerinya sendiri, dan di sana ia akan dibunuh."
Behold, I send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and shall return to his own land; and I will overthrow him with the sword in his own land.
8 Perwira Asyur itu mendapat kabar bahwa rajanya telah meninggalkan Lakhis dan sedang berperang melawan kota Libna, tak jauh dari situ. Maka pergilah perwira itu ke sana untuk menemui rajanya itu.
So Rapsakes returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Lobna: for he heard that he [had] departed from Lachis.
9 Raja Asyur telah menerima kabar bahwa pasukan Mesir di bawah pimpinan Tirhaka raja Sudan sedang datang untuk menyerang mereka. Karena itu, raja Asyur mengirim surat kepada Hizkia raja Yehuda.
And he heard concerning Tharaca king of the Ethiopians, saying, Behold, he is come forth to fight with you: and he returned, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,
10 Begini bunyi surat itu, "Jangan tertipu oleh janji Allahmu yang kauandalkan itu bahwa engkau tidak akan jatuh ke dalam tanganku.
Let not your God on whom you trust encourage you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.
11 Engkau sudah mendengar bahwa setiap negeri yang diserang raja-raja Asyur, dihancurkan sama sekali. Jangan menyangka engkau bisa luput!
Behold, you have heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done in all the lands, to waste them utterly: and shall you be delivered?
12 Pada waktu leluhurku menghancurkan kota Gozan, Haran, dan Rezef, serta membunuh orang Eden yang tinggal di Telasar, tidak satu pun dari dewa-dewa mereka dapat menyelamatkan mereka.
Have the gods of the nations at all delivered them, whom my fathers destroyed; both Gozan, and Charran, and Raphis, and the sons of Edem who were in Thaesthen?
13 Di manakah raja-raja kota Hamat, Arpad, Sefarwaim, Hena, dan Iwa?"
Where is the king of Haemath, and the king of Arphad? and where is the king of the city of Seppharvaim, of Ana, and Aba?
14 Hizkia menerima surat itu dari para utusan, lalu ia membacanya. Kemudian ia pergi ke Rumah TUHAN, dan membentangkan surat itu di hadapan TUHAN,
And Ezekias took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and he went up to the house of the Lord, and Ezekias spread it before the Lord,
15 lalu berdoa, katanya, "TUHAN, Allah Israel, yang bersemayam di atas kerub, Engkau satu-satunya Allah yang menguasai segala kerajaan di muka bumi. Engkaulah yang menciptakan langit dan bumi.
and said, O Lord God of Israel that dwell over the cherubs, you are the only god in all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
16 TUHAN, perhatikanlah kiranya apa yang sedang terjadi dengan kami. Dengarlah semua penghinaan Sanherib terhadap Engkau, Allah yang hidup!
Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear: open, Lord, your eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherim, which he has sent to reproach the living God.
17 Kami semua tahu, TUHAN, bahwa raja-raja Asyur telah membinasakan banyak bangsa dan menghancurkan negeri-negeri mereka.
For truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have wasted the nations,
18 Dewa-dewa mereka juga dibakar dan dihancurkan, sebab dewa-dewa itu sama sekali tidak berkuasa. Mereka hanya patung dari kayu dan batu buatan manusia.
and have cast their gods into the fire: because they are no gods, but the works of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.
19 Ya TUHAN, Allah kami, lepaskanlah kami dari orang-orang Asyur itu, supaya segala bangsa di dunia tahu bahwa hanya Engkau satu-satunya Allah."
And now, O Lord our God, deliver us out of his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall know that you alone [are] the Lord God.
20 Kemudian Yesaya mengirim pesan kepada Raja Hizkia bahwa sebagai jawaban atas doa raja,
And Esaias the son of Amos sent to Ezekias, saying, Thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, I have heard your prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.
21 TUHAN berkata, "Kota Yerusalem menertawakan dan memperolok-olok engkau, Sanherib.
This [is] the word which the Lord has spoken against him; The virgin daughter of Sion has made light of you, and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
22 Tahukah engkau siapa yang kaucaci maki dan kauhina itu? Aku, Allah Israel, Allah yang suci! Sombong sekali sikapmu terhadap-Ku.
Whom have you reproached, and whom have you reviled? and against whom have you lifted up your voice, and raised your eyes on high? [Is it] against the Holy One of Israel?
23 Engkau mengirim utusan untuk membual bahwa dengan banyaknya kereta perangmu engkau telah menaklukkan gunung-gunung tertinggi di Libanon. Engkau menyombongkan bahwa engkau menebang pohon-pohon cemaranya yang paling tinggi dan paling indah serta menerobosi hutan-hutannya yang paling lebat.
By your messengers you has reproached the Lord, and have said, I will go up with the multitude of my chariots, to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Libanus, and I have cut down the height of his cedar, [and] his choice cypresses; and I have come into the midst of the forest and of Carmel.
24 Engkau juga membanggakan bahwa engkau menggali sumur dan minum air di negeri-negeri asing, dan bahwa para prajuritmu menginjak-injak Sungai Nil sampai kering.
I have refreshed [myself], and have drunk strange waters, and I have dried up with the sole of my foot all the rivers of fortified places.
25 Belum pernahkah engkau mendengar bahwa semuanya itu sudah Kurencanakan sejak dahulu? Dan sekarang Aku melaksanakannya. Akulah yang memberi kepadamu kuasa untuk menghancurkan kota-kota berbenteng menjadi puing-puing.
I have brought about [the matter], I have brought it to a conclusion; and it is come to the destruction of the bands of warlike prisoners, [even of] strong cities.
26 Orang-orang yang tinggal di sana tidak berdaya; mereka terkejut dan ketakutan. Mereka seperti rumput di padang atau rumput yang tumbuh di atap rumah, yang mengering kalau ditiup angin timur yang panas.
And they that lived in them were weak in hand, they quaked and were confounded, they became [as] grass of the field, or [as] the green herb, the grass [growing on] houses, and that which is trodden down by him that stands [upon it].
27 Tetapi Aku tahu segalanya tentang dirimu. Aku tahu apa yang kaulakukan dan ke mana engkau pergi.
But I know your down-sitting, and your going forth, and your rage against me.
28 Aku tahu bahwa engkau marah sekali kepada-Ku, dan Aku sudah mendengar tentang kesombonganmu itu. Sekarang Kupasang kait pada hidungmu dan kekang pada mulutmu, supaya engkau Kutarik pulang lewat jalan yang kaulalui ketika datang."
Because you was angry against me, and your fierceness is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hooks in your nostrils, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
29 Yesaya mengirim juga pesan ini kepada Hizkia, "Inilah yang akan menjadi tanda bagimu. Tahun ini dan tahun depan orang akan makan gandum yang tumbuh sendiri. Tetapi setelah itu mereka dapat menanam gandum dan anggur serta menikmati hasilnya.
And this shall be a sign to you; eat this year the things that grow of themselves, and in the second year the things which spring up: and in the third year [let there be] sowing, and reaping, and planting of vineyards, and eat you the fruit of them.
30 Orang Yehuda yang masih hidup akan makmur seperti tanaman yang dalam sekali akarnya dan menghasilkan buah.
And he shall increase him that has escaped of the house of Juda: and the remnant [shall strike] root beneath, and it shall produce fruit above.
31 Di Yerusalem dan di atas Gunung Sion akan ada orang-orang yang selamat, karena TUHAN sudah menentukan bahwa hal itu akan terjadi.
For from Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and he that escapes from the mountain of Sion: the zeal of the Lord of host shall do this.
32 Inilah yang dikatakan TUHAN tentang raja Asyur: 'Ia tidak akan memasuki Yerusalem atau menembakkan panah ke arah kota itu. Prajurit-prajurit yang berperisai tak ada yang akan mendekati kota itu, dan di sekelilingnya tidak akan dibangun tanggul pengepungan.
[Is it] not so? Thus says the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city, and he shall not shoot an arrow there, neither shall a shield come against it, neither shall he heap a mound against it.
33 Raja Asyur akan pulang lewat jalan yang dilaluinya ketika datang, tanpa memasuki kota itu. Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara.
By the way by which he comes, by it shall he return, and he shall not enter into this city, says the Lord.
34 Kota Yerusalem akan Kubela dan Kulindungi demi kehormatan-Ku sendiri dan demi perjanjian-Ku dengan hamba-Ku Daud.'"
And I will defend this city as with a shield, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
35 Malam itu juga Malaikat TUHAN datang ke perkemahan orang Asyur, dan membunuh 185.000 orang prajurit. Keesokan harinya pagi-pagi mayat-mayat mereka bertebaran.
And it came to pass at night that the angel of the Lord went forth, an struck in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they rose early in the morning, and, behold, [these were] all dead corpses.
36 Maka mundurlah Sanherib raja Asyur dan pulang ke Niniwe.
And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians departed, and went and returned, and lived in Nineve.
37 Pada suatu hari, ketika ia sedang beribadat di dalam kuil Dewa Nisrokh, ia dibunuh dengan pedang oleh Adramelekh dan Sarezer, putra-putranya. Sesudah itu mereka lari ke negeri Ararat. Maka Esarhadon, putranya yang lain, menjadi raja menggantikan dia.
And it came to pass, while he was worshipping in the house of Meserach his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons struck him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararath; and Asordan his son reigned in his stead.
