1 Siihen aikaan Babylonian kuningas Merodak-Bal- Adan, Bal-Adanin poika, lähetti kirjeen ja lahjoja Hiskialle, koska oli kuullut, että tämä oli ollut sairaana ja toipunut sairaudestaan.
2 Hiskia ilahtui lähettiläiden tulosta ja lahjoista ja näytti heille aarrekammionsa, hopean ja kullan, hajusteet ja hienot öljyt, koko asevarastonsa ja kaiken muunkin arvokkaan, mitä hän omisti. Mitään hän ei jättänyt heille näyttämättä, ei palatsissaan eikä koko valtakunnassa.
6 Tulee päivä, jolloin kaikki, mitä sinun talossasi on ja mitä jo isäsi ovat aikoinaan keränneet, viedään Babyloniin. Mitään ei jää jäljelle, sanoo Herra.
1 At that time hath Merodach-Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah, when he heareth that he hath been sick, and is become strong.
2 And Hezekiah rejoiceth over them, and sheweth them the house of his spices, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the good ointment, and all the house of his vessels, and all that hath been found in his treasures; there hath not been a thing in his house, and in all his dominion, that Hezekiah hath not shewed them.
3 And Isaiah the prophet cometh in unto king Hezekiah, and saith unto him, `What said these men? and whence come they unto thee?` And Hezekiah saith, `From a land afar off they have come unto me -- from Babylon.`
4 And he saith, `What saw they in thy house?` and Hezekiah saith, `All that [is] in my house they saw; there hath not been a thing that I have not shewed them among my treasures.`
5 And Isaiah saith unto Hezekiah, `Hear a word of Jehovah of Hosts:
6 Lo, days are coming, and borne hath been all that [is] in thy house, and that thy fathers have treasured up till this day, to Babylon; there is not left a thing, said Jehovah;
7 and of thy sons who come forth from thee, whom thou begettest, they take, and they have been eunuchs in a palace of the king of Babylon.`
8 And Hezekiah saith unto Isaiah, `Good [is] the word of Jehovah that thou hast spoken;` and he saith, `Because there is peace and truth in my days.`