1 In die tyd het Merodag B ladan, die seun van B ladan, die koning van Babel, 'n brief en 'n geskenk aan Hisk¡a gestuur; want hy het gehoor dat hy siek was en gesond geword het.

2 En Hisk¡a was bly oor hulle en het hulle sy skathuis laat sien, die silwer en die goud en die speserye en die kosbare olie en sy hele wapenhuis en alles wat te vinde was in sy skatkamers; daar was niks in sy huis of in sy hele ryk wat Hisk¡a hulle nie laat sien het nie.

3 Toe kom die profeet Jesaja na koning Hisk¡a en sê vir hom: Wat het hierdie manne gesê en waarvandaan het hulle na u gekom? En Hisk¡a antwoord: Uit 'n ver land het hulle na my gekom, uit Babel.

4 En hy sê: Wat het hulle in u huis gesien? En Hisk¡a antwoord: Hulle het alles gesien wat in my huis is; daar is niks in my skatkamers wat ek hulle nie laat sien het nie.

5 Toe sê Jesaja vir Hisk¡a: Hoor die woord van die HERE van die leërskare:

6 Kyk, daar kom dae dat alles wat in jou huis is en wat jou vaders opgehoop het tot vandag toe, na Babel weggevoer sal word; daar sal niks oorbly nie, sê die HERE.

7 En van jou seuns wat uit jou sal voortkom, wat jy sal verwek, sal hulle neem, dat hulle hofdienaars word in die paleis van die koning van Babel.

8 Toe sê Hisk¡a vir Jesaja: Die woord van die HERE wat u gespreek het, is goed. Ook sê hy: Daar sal tog vrede en bestendigheid wees in my dae!

1 At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he had news that Hezekiah had been ill, and was well again.

2 And Hezekiah was glad at their coming, and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil, and all the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores: there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which he did not let them see.

3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say, and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.

4 And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.

5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord of armies:

6 Truly, the days are coming when everything in your house, and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day, will be taken away to Babylon: all will be gone.

7 And your sons, even your offspring, will they take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.

8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. And he said in his heart, There will be peace and quiet in my days.