1 فلما سمع الملك حزقيا ذلك مزّق ثيابه وتغطى بمسح ودخل بيت الرب.2 وارسل الياقيم الذي على البيت وشبنة الكاتب وشيوخ الكهنة متغطين بمسوح الى اشعياء بن آموص النبي.3 فقالوا له. هكذا يقول حزقيا. هذا اليوم يوم شدة وتأديب واهانة. لان الاجنّة دنت الى المولد ولا قوة على الولادة.4 لعل الرب الهك يسمع كلام ربشاقى الذي ارسله ملك اشور سيده ليعيّر الاله الحيّ فيوبخ على الكلام الذي سمعه الرب الهك. فارفع صلاة لاجل البقية الموجودة5 فجاء عبيد الملك حزقيا الى اشعياء.6 فقال لهم اشعياء. هكذا تقولون لسيدكم. هكذا يقول الرب. لا تخف بسبب الكلام الذي سمعته الذي جدف عليّ به غلمان ملك اشور.7 هانذا اجعل فيه روحا فيسمع خبرا ويرجع الى ارضه وأسقطه بالسيف في ارضه8 فرجع ربشاقى ووجد ملك اشور يحارب لبنة لانه سمع انه ارتحل عن لخيش.9 وسمع عن ترهاقة ملك كوش قولا قد خرج ليحاربك. فلما سمع ارسل رسلا الى حزقيا قائلا10 هكذا تكلمون حزقيا ملك يهوذا قائلين. لا يخدعك الهك الذي انت متوكل عليه قائلا لا تدفع اورشليم الى يد ملك اشور.11 انك قد سمعت ما فعل ملوك اشور بجميع الاراضي لتحريمها وهل تنجو انت.12 هل انقذ آلهة الامم هؤلاء الذين اهلكهم آبائي جوزان وحاران ورصف وبني عدن الذين في تلسار.13 اين ملك حماة وملك ارفاد وملك مدينة سفروايم وهينع وعوّا14 فاخذ حزقيا الرسائل من يد الرسل وقرأها ثم صعد الى بيت الرب ونشرها حزقيا امام الرب.15 وصلى حزقيا الى الرب قائلا16 يا رب الجنود اله اسرائيل الجالس فوق الكروبيم انت هو الاله وحدك لكل ممالك الارض. انت صنعت السموات والارض.17 أمل يا رب اذنك واسمع. افتح يا رب عينيك وانظر واسمع كل كلام سنحاريب الذي ارسله ليعير الله الحي.18 حقا يا رب ان ملوك اشور قد خربوا كل الامم وارضهم.19 ودفعوا آلهتهم الى النار. لانهم ليسوا آلهة بل صنعة ايدي الناس خشب وحجر فابادوهم.20 والآن ايها الرب الهنا خلّصنا من يده فتعلم ممالك الارض كلها انك انت الرب وحدك21 فارسل اشعياء بن آموص الى حزقيا قائلا. هكذا يقول الرب اله اسرائيل الذي صليت اليه من جهة سنحاريب ملك اشور.22 هذا هو الكلام الذي تكلم به الرب عليه. احتقرتك واستهزأت بك العذراء ابنة صهيون. نحوك انغضت ابنة اورشليم راسها.23 من عيرت وجدفت وعلى من عليت صوتا وقد رفعت الى العلاء عينيك على قدوس اسرائيل.24 عن يد عبيدك عيّرت السيد وقلت بكثرة مركباتي قد صعدت الى علو الجبال عقاب لبنان فاقطع ارزه الطويل وافضل سروه وادخل اقصى علوه وعر كرمله.25 انا قد حفرت وشربت مياها وانشف ببطن قدمي جميع خلجان مصر.26 ألم تسمع. منذ البعيد صنعته منذ الايام القديمة صوّرته. الآن اتيت به. فتكون لتخريب مدن محصنة حتى تصير روابي خربة.27 فسكانها قصار الايدي قد ارتاعوا وخجلوا. صاروا كعشب الحقل وكالنبات الاخضر كحشيش السطوح وكالملفوح قبل نموّه.28 ولكنني عالم بجلوسك وخروجك ودخولك وهيجانك عليّ.29 لان هيجانك عليّ وعجرفتك قد صعدا الى اذنيّ اضع خزامتي في انفك وشكيمتي في شفتيك واردك في الطريق الذي جئت فيه30 وهذه لك العلامة. تأكلون هذه السنة زريعا وفي السنة الثانية خلفة واما السنة الثالثة ففيها تزرعون وتحصدون وتغرسون كروما وتأكلون اثمارها.31 ويعود الناجون من بيت يهوذا الباقون يتأصلون الى اسفل ويصنعون ثمرا الى ما فوق.32 لانه من اورشليم تخرج بقية وناجون من جبل صهيون. غيرة رب الجنود تصنع هذا33 لذلك هكذا يقول الرب عن ملك اشور. لا يدخل هذه المدينة ولا يرمي هناك سهما ولا يتقدم عليها بترس ولا يقيم عليها مترسة.34 في الطريق الذي جاء فيه يرجع والى هذه المدينة لا يدخل يقول الرب.35 وأحامي عن هذه المدينة لاخلصها من اجل نفسي ومن اجل داود عبدي36 فخرج ملاك الرب وضرب من جيش اشور مئة وخمس وثمانين الفا. فلما بكروا صباحا اذا هم جميعا جثث ميتة.37 فانصرف سنحاريب ملك اشور وذهب راجعا واقام في نينوى.38 وفيما هو ساجد في بيت نسروخ الهه ضربه أدرملك وشرآصر ابناه بالسيف ونجوا الى ارض اراراط. وملك آسرحدون ابنه عوضا عنه

1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.3 And they said to him, Thus said Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.4 It may be the LORD your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD your God has heard: why lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.6 And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you say to your master, Thus said the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.7 Behold, I will send a blast on him, and he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with you. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,10 Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shall you be delivered?12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.15 And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying,16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwell between the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: you have made heaven and earth.17 Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which has sent to reproach the living God.18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men' hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the LORD, even you only.21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:22 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you, and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.24 By your servants have you reproached the Lord, and have said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.25 I have dig, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.26 Have you not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that you should be to lay waste defended cities into ruinous heaps.27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.28 But I know your stayed, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against me.29 Because your rage against me, and your tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.30 And this shall be a sign to you, You shall eat this year such as grows of itself; and the second year that which springs of the same: and in the third year sow you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.33 Therefore thus said the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, said the LORD.35 For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David' sake.36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelled at Nineveh.38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.