Isaías 37

1 When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house. 2 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 They said to him, "Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth. 4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’"

5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

6 Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, ‘Yahweh says, "Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. 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 heard that he had departed from Lachish. 9 He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem won’t 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. Shall you be delivered? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, 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 city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’"

14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh. 15 Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying, 16 "Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 17 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God. 18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land, 19 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them. 20 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only."

21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. 23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel. 24 By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field. 25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."

26 "‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps. 27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown. 28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. 29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will 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 "‘This shall be the sign to you: You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 32 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’

33 "Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. 34 He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says Yahweh. 35 ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’"

36 Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there. 38 As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

Ka Tono te Kīngi i tā Ihāia Tohutohu

1 Nā, ka rongo a Kīngi Hetekia, haea ana e ia ōna kākahu, kei te hīpoki i a ia ki te kākahu taratara, ā, haere ana ki te whare o Ihowā. 2 I tonoa anō e ia a Eriakimi rangatira o te whare, a Hepena kaituhituhi, me ngā kaumātua o ngā tohunga, he mea hīpoki ki te kākahu taratara, ki a Ihāia poropiti, tama a Āmoho; 3 hei mea ki a ia, "Ko te kupu tēnei a Hetekia: Ko tēnei rā, he rā nō te hē, nō te whakatuma, nō te whakamā; kua taea hoki te whānautanga tamariki, heoi kāhore he kaha e whānau ai. 4 Tērā pea a Ihowā, tōu Atua, ka rongo ki ngā kupu a Rapahake i tonoa mai nei e tōna ariki, e te kīngi o Ahiria, hei whākorekore ki te Atua ora, ā, ka riri ki ngā kupu i rongo ai a Ihowā, tōu Atua. Nā, kia ara tāu īnoi mō ngā toenga e noho nei."

5 Nā, ko te haerenga atu o ngā tāngata a Kīngi Hetekia ki a Ihāia, 6 ka mea a Ihāia ki a rātou, "Kī atu ki tō koutou ariki, ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā: Kaua e wehi i ngā kupu i rongo rā koe, ki ērā i kohukohu mai rā ngā tāngata a te kīngi o Ahiria ki ahau. 7 Nā, ka tonoa e ahau he wairua ki a ia, ā, ka rongo ia i tētahi rongo, ka hoki ki tōna whenua; ka meinga anō hoki ia e ahau kia hinga i te hoari i tōna whenua.’ "

8 Nā, hoki ana a Rapahake, ā, rokohanga atu e ia e whawhai ana te kīngi o Ahiria ki Rīpina; i rongo hoki ia kua hāpainga mai e ia i Rakihi.

9 Ā, ka rongo ia ki a Tirihaka kīngi o Etiopia, ki te kōrero, "Kei te haere mai ki te whawhai ki a koe." Nā, ka rongo ia, ka tono tāngata anō ki a Hetekia, ka mea: 10 "Kī atu ki a Hetekia kīngi o Hūrā, mea atu: Kei tinihangatia koe e tōu Atua, e tāu e okioki nā koe, i a ia e kī nā, ‘E kore a Hiruhārama e hoatu ki te ringa o te kīngi o Ahiria.’ 11 Nanā, kua rongo nā koe ki tā ngā kīngi o Ahiria i mea ai ki ngā whenua katoa, ki tā rātou hunanga rawatanga i a rātou, ā, e ora rānei koe? 12 I whakaora rānei ngā atua o ngā tauiwi i ngā wāhi i hunā e ōku mātua; i Kotana, i Harana, i Retepe, i ngā tama a Erene, i ērā i Terahara? 13 Kei hea te kīngi o Hāmata, te kīngi o Ārapara, te kīngi o te pā o Hēparawaima, o Hena, o Iwa?"

Te Īnoi a Hetekia

14 Nā, ka tangohia mai e Hetekia te pukapuka i te ringa o ngā karere, kōrerotia ana e ia. Nā, haere ana a Hetekia ki runga, ki te whare o Ihowā, wherahia ana e ia ki te aroaro o Ihowā. 15 Nā, ka īnoi a Hetekia ki a Ihowā, ka mea: 16 "E Ihowā o ngā mano, e te Atua o Īharaira, e noho nā i runga o ngā kerupima, ko koe te Atua, ko koe anake, o ngā kīngitanga katoa o te whenua; nāu i hanga te rangi me te whenua. 17 Tahuri mai tōu taringa, e Ihowā, whakarongo mai; titiro mai ōu kanohi e Ihowā, kia kite koe; kia rongo ki ngā kupu katoa a Henakeripi, ki tāna i tuku mai ai hei whākorekore mō te Atua ora.

18 "He tika anō, e Ihowā, kua kore i ngā kīngi o Ahiria ngā iwi katoa, me tō rātou whenua. 19 Kua makā anō e rātou ō rātou atua ki te ahi, nō te mea ehara rātou i te atua, engari, he mahi nā te ringa tāngata – he rākau, he kōhatu – koia i hunā ai e rātou. 20 Tēnā rā, whakaorangia mātou āianei, e Ihowā, e tō mātou Atua, i tōna ringa, kia mōhio ai ngā kīngitanga katoa o te whenua ko koe a Ihowā, ko koe anake."

21 Katahi a Ihāia tama a Āmoho ka tono tāngata ki a Hetekia, hei mea: "Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā, a te Atua o Īharaira: I te mea i īnoi koe ki ahau mō Henakeripi kīngi o Ahiria; 22 nā, ko tā Ihowā kupu tēnei i kōrero ai mōna:

Kua whakahāwea te wāhina,

te tamāhine a Hiona ki a koe;

kataina iho koe e ia – rūrū ana te māhunga

o te tamāhine a Hiruhārama ki a koe.

23 Ko wai tāu i whākorekore nā, i kohukohu nā?

Ki a wai tōu reo i whakarahia nā,

tōu kanohi i kake nā ki runga?

Ki te Mea Tapu o Īharaira!

24 Meatia ana e koe āu karere

hei whākorekore mō te Ariki;

kua mea nā koe,

‘Kua kake ahau, me aku tini hāriata,

ki runga ki ngā wāhi tiketike o ngā maunga,

ki roto rawa o Repanōna;

ka tuaina anō e ahau ngā hīta roroa o reira,

me ō reira kauri papai;

ka tae anō ahau ki te wāhi tiketike o tōna wāhi whakamutunga mai,

ki te ngahere o tōna māra whai hua.

25 Keria ana e ahau,

inu wai ana ahau,

maroke ake i te kapu o tōku waewae

ngā awa katoa o Īhipa.’

26 "Kāhore rānei koe i rongo i mua noa atu,

nāku tēnā i mea?

I ngā rā onamata nāku tēnā i hanga?

Katahi nei ka whakaputaina e ahau,

ā, ka waiho nā koe hei mea i ngā pā taiepa

hei pūranga rukerukenga.

27 Koia i iti ai te kaha o ō reira tāngata;

wehi ana rātou, pōrahurahu kau ana;

rite tonu ki te tarutaru o te pārae,

ki te otaota matomato,

ki te taru i runga i ngā tuanui,

ki te wīti i ngingio i te mea kīanō i tupu noa.

28 "Otirā, e mātau ana ahau ki tōu nohoanga iho,

ki tōu haerenga atu, ki tōu haerenga mai,

me tōu nananga ki ahau.

29 Nā, mō tāu nananga ki ahau,

mō te mea kua tae ake nei tāu whakamanamana ki ōku taringa,

mō reira ka kuhua e ahau tāku matau ki tōu ihu,

tāku paraire ki ōu ngutu;

ā, ka whakahokia koe nā te ara

i haere mai nā koe.

30 "Ā, ko te tohu tēnei ki a koe:

I tēnei tau ka kai koutou i ngā mea tupu noa ake,

ā, i te rua o ngā tau ko ngā tupu noa ake o te tau.

Nā, hei te toru o ngā tau koutou whakatō ai, kokoti ai,

whakatō ai i ngā māra wāina, kai ai i ngā hua o aua māra.

31 Nā, tērā e hou anō whakararo ngā pakiaka o ngā oranga i mawhiti o te whare o Hūrā,

ka hua anō ngā hua whakarunga.

32 E puta ake hoki he toenga i Hiruhārama, he oranga i Maunga Hiona.

E taea tēnei e te ngākau nui o Ihowā o ngā mano.

33 "Nā, ko tā Ihowā kupu tēnei mō te kīngi o Ahiria:

E kore ia e haere mai ki tēnei pā,

e kore anō e perea he pere e ia ki konei,

e kore anō e maua e ia he whakangungu rākau ki mua i tēnei pā,

e opehia rānei he puke hei whawhaitanga ki konei.

34 Ko te ara i haere mai ai ia, ka hoki ia mā reira;

e kore anō ia e tae ki tēnei pā,"

e ai tā Ihowā.

35 "Ka tiakina hoki e ahau tēnei pā, ka whakaorangia;

he whakaaro ki ahau, ki tāku pononga anō, ki a Rāwiri."

Te Whati me te Matenga o Henakeripi

36 Nā, ka puta atu te anahera a Ihowā, ā, patua iho e ia i te puni o ngā Ahiriana kotahi rau e waru tekau mā rima mano; ā, te marangatanga ake i te ata, nanā, ō rātou tinana! He tūpāpaku katoa rātou. 37 Nā, tūria atu ana e Henakeripi kīngi o Ahiria, haere ana, hoki ana, noho rawa atu kei Ninewe.

38 Ā, i a ia e koropiko ana i te whare o tōna atua, o Nitiroko, patua iho ia e āna tama, e Ataramereke rāua ko Harētere, ki te hoari; mawhiti tonu atu rāua ki te whenua o Ararata, ā, ko tāna tama ko Etara Harono, te kīngi i muri i a ia.