Isaías 36

1 Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway. 3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder came out to him.

4 Rabshakeh said to them, "Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, "What confidence is this in which you trust? 5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? 6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 7 But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?" 8 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 10 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, "Go up against this land, and destroy it."’"

11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

12 But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?" 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you. 15 Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."’ 16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, "Yahweh will deliver us." Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? 20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’"

21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, "Don’t answer him."

22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Ka Takutaku a Henakeripi i a Hiruhārama

1 Nā, nō te tekau mā whā o ngā tau o Kīngi Hetekia ka whakaekea mai ngā pā taiepa katoa o Hūrā e Henakeripi kīngi o Ahiria, ā, riro ana i a ia. 2 Nā, ka tonoa mai e te kīngi o Ahiria a Rapahake i Rakihi ki a Kīngi Hetekia, ki Hiruhārama; he nui te ope. Nā, tū ana ia ki te awakeri o tō runga puna wai, ki te ara i te māra o te kaihoroi kākahu. 3 Nā, ka puta atu ki a ia a Eriakimi, tama a Hirikia, rangatira o te whare, rātou ko Hepena, kaituhituhi, ko Ioaha, tama a Āhapa, kaiwhakamahara.

4 Nā, ka mea a Rapahake ki a rātou, "Tēnā, mea atu ki a Hetekia:

" ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a te kīngi nui, a te kīngi o Ahiria: He aha tēnei whakawhirinaki e whakawhirinaki nā koe? 5 Ki tāku, ko tāu ngārahu, me tōu kaha mō te whawhai he kupu noa iho. Ko wai tōu whakawhirinakitanga, i whakakeke ai koe ki ahau? 6 Nā, e whakawhirinaki nā koe ki tēnā kākaho whati hei tokotoko, ki Īhipa; ki te whakahinga atu te tangata ki reira, ka ngoto ki tōna ringa, nā, kua tū. Ka pērā anō a Parao kīngi o Īhipa ki te hunga katoa e okioki ana ki a ia. 7 Nā, ki te mea koe ki ahau, "Ko Ihowā, ko tō mātou Atua tā mātou e whakawhirinaki nei," he teka ianei nāna ngā wāhi tiketike, me ngā āta e whakakāhoretia nā e Hetekia, i mea i nā ki a Hūrā rāua ko Hiruhārama, "Hei mua i tēnei āta koutou koropiko ai"?

8 " ‘Nā, tēnā rā, hōmai āianei he utu pupuri ki tōku ariki, ki te kīngi o Ahiria, ā, ka hoatu e ahau ētahi hōiho ki a koe, kia rua mano, ki te taea e koe te whakanoho he kaieke ki runga ki a rātou. 9 Ā, me pēhea e hoki ai i a koe te kanohi o tētahi rangatira o ngā mea ririki rawa o ngā pononga a tōku ariki; i a koe ka whakawhirinaki ki Īhipa ki te hāriata, ki te kaieke hōiho māu? 10 I ngaro rānei a Ihowā i tōku haerenga mai ki te huna i tēnei whenua? I mea mai a Ihowā ki ahau, Haere ki tērā whenua huna ai.’ "

11 Nā, ka mea a Eriakimi rātou ko Hepena, ko Ioaha, ki a Rapahake, "Tēnā, kōrero Hīriani mai ki āu pononga; e mōhiotia ana hoki tēnā reo e mātou, kaua hoki e kōrero reo Hūrai mai ki a mātou, i te mea e whakarongo ana te iwi nei i runga i te taiepa."

12 Anō rā ko Rapahake, "I tonoa mai rānei ahau e tōku ariki ki tōu ariki, ki a koe rānei, hei kōrero i ēnei kupu? He teka ianei ki ngā tāngata e noho ana i runga i te taiepa, kia kainga e rātou tō rātou paru, kia inumia anō tō rātou mimi, arā e koutou tahi?"

13 Nā, tū ana a Rapahake, ā, nui atu tōna reo ki te karanga i te reo o ngā Hūrai; ka mea, "Whakarongo ki ngā kupu a te kīngi nui, a te kīngi o Ahiria! 14 Ko te kupu tēnei a te kīngi: Kei tinihangatia koutou e Hetekia; e kore hoki koutou e taea e ia te whakaora. 15 Kei meinga koutou e Hetekia kia whakawhirinaki ki a Ihowā, i a ia e kī nā, ‘Tērā tātou ka whakaorangia e Ihowā; e kore tēnei pā e tukua ki te ringa o te kīngi o Ahiria.’

16 "Kaua e rongo ki a Hetekia; ko te kupu hoki tēnei a te kīngi o Ahiria: ‘Houhia tāu rongo ki ahau, haere mai hoki ki waho, ki ahau; ka kai ai koutou i ngā hua o tāna wāina, o tāna wāina, o tāna piki, o tāna piki, ka inu anō i te wai o tāna puna, o tāna puna; 17 kia tae atu rā anō ahau ki te tiki atu i a koutou ki te whenua e pēnei ana me tō koutou nei whenua, ki te whenua wīti, wāina, ki te whenua taro, māra wāina.

18 "Kei whakapatia koutou e Hetekia, ki te mea ia, ‘Mā Ihowā tātou e whakaora.’ I whakaorangia rānei e tētahi o ngā atua o ngā tauiwi tōna whenua i te ringa o te kīngi o Ahiria? 19 Kei hea ngā atua o Hāmata, o Ārapara? Kei hea ngā atua o Hēparawaima? I whakaorangia rānei e rātou a Hamaria i tōku ringa? 20 Nā wai o ngā atua katoa o ēnei whenua i whakaora tō rātou whenua i tōku ringa, e whakaorangia ai e Ihowā a Hiruhārama i tōku ringa?"

21 Heoi, whakarongo kau ana rātou, kīhai i utua tāna; ko tā te kīngi hoki tēnā i ako ai; i kī ia, "Kaua e utua tāna."

22 Nā, haere ana a Eriakimi, tama a Hirikia, rangatira o te whare, rātou ko Hepena kaituhituhi, ko Ioaha, tama a Āhapa, kaiwhakamahara, ki a Hetekia, he mea haehae ō rātou kākahu, ā, kōrerotia ana e rātou ki a ia ngā kupu a Rapahake.