1 And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.3 And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.4 It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.6 And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.7 See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death.8 So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah: for it had come to his ears that the king of Assyria had gone away from Lachish.9 And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, ... And he sent representatives to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying,10 This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.11 No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate?12 Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivva?14 And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord,15 And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,16 O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.17 Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.18 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,19 And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.20 But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.21 Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.22 This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.23 Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.24 You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.25 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.26 Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.29 Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.30 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.31 And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.32 For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.33 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.34 By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.35 For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.36 And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.37 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.38 And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword, and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon, his son, became king in his place.

1 Et factum est, cum audisset rex Ezechias, scidit vestimenta sua, et obvolutus est sacco, et intravit in domum Domini. 2 Et misit Eliacim, qui erat super domum, et Sobnam scribam, et seniores de sacerdotibus, opertos saccis, ad Isaiam, filium Amos, prophetam, 3 et dixerunt ad eum : Hc dicit Ezechias : Dies tribulationis, et correptionis, et blasphemi, dies hc ; quia venerunt filii usque ad partum, et virtus non est pariendi. 4 Si quomodo audiat Dominus Deus tuus verba Rabsacis, quem misit rex Assyriorum dominus suus ad blasphemandum Deum viventem et exprobrandum sermonibus quos audivit Dominus Deus tuus : leva ergo orationem pro reliquiis qu repert sunt. 5 Et venerunt servi regis Ezechi ad Isaiam. 6 Et dixit ad eos Isaias : Hc dicetis domino vestro : Hc dicit Dominus : Ne timeas a facie verborum qu audisti, quibus blasphemaverunt pueri regis Assyriorum me. 7 Ecce ego dabo ei spiritum, et audiet nuntium, et revertetur ad terram suam, et corruere eum faciam gladio in terra sua.8 Reversus est autem Rabsaces, et invenit regem Assyriorum prliantem adversus Lobnam : audierat enim quia profectus esset de Lachis. 9 Et audivit de Tharaca rege thiopi, dicentes : Egressus est ut pugnet contra te. Quod cum audisset, misit nuntios ad Ezechiam, dicens : 10 Hc dicetis Ezechi regi Jud, loquentes : Non te decipiat Deus tuus in quo tu confidis, dicens : Non dabitur Jerusalem in manu regis Assyriorum. 11 Ecce tu audisti omnia qu fecerunt reges Assyriorum omnibus terris, quas subverterunt : et tu poteris liberari ? 12 Numquid eruerunt eos dii gentium quos subverterunt patres mei, Gozam, et Haram, et Reseph, et filios Eden qui erant in Thalassar ? 13 Ubi est rex Emath, et rex Arphad, et rex urbis Sepharvaim, Ana, et Ava ?14 Et tulit Ezechias libros de manu nuntiorum, et legit eos, et ascendit in domum Domini, et expandit eos Ezechias coram Domino : 15 et oravit Ezechias ad Dominum, dicens : 16 Domine exercituum, Deus Isral, qui sedes super cherubim, tu es Deus solus omnium regnorum terr : tu fecisti clum et terram. 17 Inclina, Domine, aurem tuam, et audi ; aperi, Domine, oculos tuos, et vide : et audi omnia verba Sennacherib, qu misit ad blasphemandum Deum viventem. 18 Vere enim, Domine, desertas fecerunt reges Assyriorum terras, et regiones earum, 19 et dederunt deos earum igni : non enim erant dii, sed opera manuum hominum, lignum et lapis, et comminuerunt eos. 20 Et nunc, Domine Deus noster, salva nos de manu ejus, et cognoscant omnia regna terr quia tu es Dominus solus. 21 Et misit Isaias, filius Amos, ad Ezechiam, dicens : Hc dicit Dominus Deus Isral : Pro quibus rogasti me de Sennacherib, rege Assyriorum, 22 hoc est verbum quod locutus est Dominus super eum : [Despexit te et subsannavit te,virgo filia Sion ;post te caput movit,filia Jerusalem.23 Cui exprobrasti ? et quem blasphemasti ?et super quem exaltasti vocem,et levasti altitudinem oculorum tuorum ?ad Sanctum Isral.24 In manu servorum tuorum exprobrasti Domino,et dixisti : In multitudine quadrigarum mearumego ascendi altitudinem montium juga Libani ;et succidam excelsa cedrorum ejus,et electas abietes illius,et introibo altitudinem summitatis ejus,saltum Carmeli ejus.25 Ego fodi, et bibi aquam,et exsiccavi vestigio pedis meiomnes rivos aggerum.26 Numquid non audisti qu olim fecerim ei ?Ex diebus antiquis ego plasmavi illud ;et nunc adduxi,et factum est in eradicationem collium compugnantium,et civitatum munitarum.27 Habitatores earum breviata manucontremuerunt, et confusi sunt.Facti sunt sicut fnum agri,et gramen pascu,et herba tectorum,qu exaruit antequam maturesceret.28 Habitationem tuam, et egressum tuum,et introitum tuum cognovi,et insaniam tuam contra me.29 Cum fureres adversum me,superbia tua ascendit in aures meas.Ponam ergo circulum in naribus tuis,et frenum in labiis tuis,et reducam te in viamper quem venisti.]30 Tibi autem hoc erit signum : comede hoc anno qu sponte nascuntur, et in anno secundo pomis vescere ; in anno autem tertio seminate et metite, et plantate vineas, et comedite fructum earum. 31 Et mittet id quod salvatum fuerit de domo Juda, et quod reliquum est, radicem deorsum, et faciet fructum sursum : 32 quia de Jerusalem exibunt reliqui, et salvatio de monte Sion : zelus Domini exercituum faciet istud. 33 Propterea hc dicit Dominus de rege Assyriorum : [Non intrabit civitatem hanc,et non jaciet ibi sagittam,et non occupabit eam clypeus,et non mittet in circuitu ejus aggerem.34 In via qua venit, per eam revertetur,et civitatem hanc non ingredietur, dicit Dominus.35 Et protegam civitatem istam, ut salvem eampropter me, et propter David, servum meum.] 36 Egressus est autem angelus Domini, et percussit in castris Assyriorum centum octoginta quinque millia. Et surrexerunt mane, et ecce omnes cadavera mortuorum. 37 Et egressus est, et abiit, et reversus est Sennacherib, rex Assyriorum, et habitavit in Ninive. 38 Et factum est, cum adoraret in templo Nesroch deum suum, Adramelech et Sarasar, filii ejus, percusserunt eum gladio, fugeruntque in terram Ararat ; et regnavit Asarhaddon, filius ejus, pro eo.