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Nagpalaygay si Haring Hezekia kay Isaias(A)

37 Sang pagkabati ni Haring Hezekia sa ginbalita sa iya, gin-gisi niya ang iya bayo kag nagsuksok sang sako sa pagpakita sang iya pagpangasubo, kag nagkadto siya sa templo sang Ginoo. Ginpakadto niya kay Isaias nga anak ni Amoz sila ni Eliakim nga administrador sang palasyo, si Shebna nga sekretaryo, kag ang mga nagapangulo nga mga pari. Tanan sila nagasuksok sang sako.

Pag-abot nila kay Isaias, nagsiling sila sa iya, “Amo ini ang ginasiling ni Hezekia: Nagaantos kita sa sini nga tion; ginasilutan[a] kag ginapakahuy-an kita. Pareho kita sa manugbata nga wala na sing kusog sa pagbun-a sang iya bata. Ginsugo sang hari sang Asiria ang iya kumander sa pagyaguta sa buhi nga Dios. Basi pa lang talupangdon sang Ginoo nga imo Dios ang ginsiling sang kumander kag silutan siya sa iya mga ginhambal. Gani magpangamuyo ka para sa aton nga nagkalabilin.”

Pagkatapos hambal sang mga opisyal nga ginpadala ni Haring Hezekia, nagsiling si Isaias sa ila, “Hambali ninyo ang inyo agalon nga si Haring Hezekia nga amo ini ang ginasiling sang Ginoo: Indi ka magkahadlok sa imo nabatian nga pagyaguta sa akon sang mga bata-bata sang hari sang Asiria. Pamati! Patalangon ko[b] ang hari sang Asiria. Makabati siya sang balita nga makapabalik sa iya sa iya nasyon. Kag didto ipapatay ko siya paagi sa espada.”

Nagpamahog Liwat ang Asiria(B)

Karon, sang mabatian sang kumander sang mga soldado sang Asiria nga naghalin na sa Lakish ang ila hari kag nagpakig-away sa Libna, nagkadto siya didto. Nabalitaan ni Haring Senakerib sang Asiria nga si Haring Tirhaka sang Etiopia[c] nagapadulong sa pagpakig-away sa iya. Pagkabati niya sini, nagpadala siya sang mga mensahero kay Hezekia sa pagsiling sini: 10 “Indi ka magpatunto sa dios nga imo ginasaligan kon magsiling siya, ‘Ang Jerusalem indi pag-itugyan sa kamot sang hari sang Asiria.’ 11 Pamati! Ikaw mismo ang nakabati kon ano ang ginhimo sang mga hari sang Asiria sa halos tanan nga nasyon. Ginlaglag nila sila sing bug-os. Kag ikaw, nagahunahuna ka bala nga makaluwas ka? 12 Ginpanglaglag sang akon mga katigulangan ang mga banwa sang Gozan, Haran, Rezef, kag ang katawhan sang Eden nga ara sa Telasar. Naluwas bala sila sang ila mga dios? 13 May nahimo bala ang mga hari sang Hamat, Arpad, Sefarvaim, Hena, kag Iva.”

Ang Pangamuyo ni Hezekia

14 Pagkatapos basa ni Hezekia sa sulat nga ginhatag sa iya sang mga mensahero, nagkadto siya sa templo sang Ginoo kag ginhumlad ang sulat sa presensya sang Ginoo. 15 Dayon nagpangamuyo siya, 16 Ginoo nga Makagagahom, Dios sang Israel nga nagapungko sa trono sa tunga-tunga sang mga kerubin, ikaw lang ang Dios nga nagadumala sa tanan nga ginharian diri sa kalibutan. Ginhimo mo ang kalangitan kag ang kalibutan. 17 Ginoo, pamatii kag tan-awa ang nagakalatabo. Pamatii ang tanan nga ginsiling ni Senakerib sa pagyaguta sa imo, O buhi nga Dios. 18 Matuod, Ginoo, nga ginpanglaglag sang mga hari sang Asiria ang madamo nga mga nasyon, 19 pati ang ila sini mga dios-dios paagi sa paghaboy sini sa kalayo. Kay indi ini matuod nga mga dios kundi mga bato lang kag mga kahoy nga ginhimo sang tawo. 20 Gani karon, Ginoo nga amon Dios, luwasa kami sa kamot sang Asiria, agod ang tanan nga ginharian diri sa kalibutan makahibalo nga ikaw lang, Ginoo, ang Dios.”

Ang Pagkalaglag ni Haring Senakerib sang Asiria(C)

21 Dayon nagpadala si Isaias nga anak ni Amoz sang sini nga mensahi kay Hezekia: Amo ini ang ginasiling sang Ginoo, ang Dios sang Israel: Tungod kay nagpangamuyo ka parte kay Haring Senakerib sang Asiria, 22 amo ini ang ginasiling sang Ginoo kontra sa iya: “Ginakadlawan kag ginatamay ka sang mga pumuluyo sang Zion,[d] ang siyudad sang Jerusalem. Nagalungo-lungo sila sa pagyaguta sa imo samtang nagapalagyo ka. 23 Sin-o bala ang imo gin-insulto kag ginpasipalahan? Sin-o bala ang ginpataasan mo sang imo tingog kag ginpabugalan? Indi bala ako, ang Balaan nga Dios sang Israel? 24 Paagi sa imo mga alagad, ginyaguta mo ako. Nagsiling ka pa, ‘Paagi sa akon madamo nga mga karwahe nasaka ko ang mataas nga mga bukid, ang putokputokan sang mga bukid sang Lebanon. Ginpangtapas ko ang iya pinakamataas nga sedro kag pinakamaayo nga sipres.[e] Nakaabot ako sa putokputokan sini nga may madabong nga kakahuyan. 25 Nagpakutkot ako sang mga bubon sa iban nga mga lugar,[f] kag nag-inom halin sa sini nga mga bubon. Sa akon nga pag-agi, nagmala ang mga sapa sa Egipto.’

26 “Matuod nga ginpangguba mo ang napaderan nga mga banwa. Pero wala ka bala nakahibalo nga madugay ko na ini nga ginpat-od? Dugay ko na ini nga ginplano nga matabo, kag karon ginatuman ko na ini. 27 Ang mga pumuluyo sang mga banwa nga ginpangguba mo nadulaan sang kusog; nahadlok sila kag nahuy-an. Pareho sila sa mga hilamon sa latagon nga dali lang malaya ukon sa mga hilamon nga nagatubo sa atop sang balay, nga sang pag-ulhot nalaya dayon.

28 “Pero nahibaluan ko ang tanan parte sa imo, kon diin ka nagatiner, ukon diin ka nagahalin ukon nagakadto, kag kon ano ang imo kaakig sa akon. 29 Tungod kay nabatian ko ang imo kaakig sa akon kag ang imo pagpabugal, kaw-itan ko ang imo ilong kag busalan ang imo baba, kag guyuron pabalik sa imo ginhalinan, sa dalan nga imo gin-agyan.”

30 Dayon nagsiling si Isaias kay Hezekia, “Amo ini ang tanda nga proteksyunan sang Ginoo ang Jerusalem sa mga taga-Asiria: Karon nga tuig ang inyo kaunon amo ang mga bunga sang mga tanom nga nagtubo lang, kag sa sunod nga tuig amo ang mga bunga sang mga tanom nga nagtubo sa gintubuan man sadto. Pero sa ikatatlo nga tuig makatanom na kamo sang uyas kag makaani. Makatanom man kamo sang mga ubas kag makakaon sang bunga sini. 31 Sa liwat, ang mga nagkalabilin nga buhi sa Juda magauswag pareho sa tanom nga nagapanggamot sing madalom kag nagapamunga. 32 Kay may magakalabilin nga buhi nga magalalapta halin sa Jerusalem, sa Bukid sang Zion. Siguraduhon gid sang Ginoo nga Makagagahom nga matuman ini.

33 “Amo ini ang ginasiling sang Ginoo parte sa hari sang Asiria: Indi siya makasulod sa siyudad sang Jerusalem ukon makapana sini. Indi siya makapalapit nga may taming ukon makapalibot sa mga pader sang siyudad sa pagkibon sini. 34 Magabalik siya sa iya ginhalinan, sa dalan nga iya gin-agyan. Ako, ang Ginoo, nagasiling nga indi gid siya makasulod sa sini nga siyudad. 35 Protektaran kag luwason ko ini nga siyudad para sa akon kadungganan kag tungod sa akon promisa kay David nga akon alagad.”

36 Dayon nagkadto ang anghel sang Ginoo sa kampo sang mga taga-Asiria kag ginpatay niya ang 185,000 ka soldado. Pagkaaga, pagbugtaw sang mga nagkalabilin nga buhi, nakita nila ang madamo nga mga bangkay. 37 Tungod sini, nagpauli si Senakerib sa Nineve kag didto nagtiner.

38 Isa ka adlaw, samtang nagasimba si Senakerib sa templo sang iya dios nga si Nisroc, ginpatay siya paagi sa espada sang iya duha ka anak nga lalaki nga sila ni Adramelec kag Sharezer, kag dayon nagpalagyo sila sa Ararat. Ang isa niya ka anak nga si Esarhadon amo ang nagbulos sa iya bilang hari.

Footnotes

  1. 37:3 ginasilutan: ukon, ginainsultuhan.
  2. 37:7 Patalangon ko: sa literal, Pasudlan ko sang espiritu.
  3. 37:9 Etiopia: sa Hebreo, Cush.
  4. 37:22 mga pumuluyo sang Zion: sa literal, birhen nga anak nga babayi sang Zion.
  5. 37:24 sedro… sipres: mga klase ini sang mga kahoy.
  6. 37:25 sa iban nga mga lugar: Ara ini sa Dead Sea Scrolls, pero wala sa Masoretic Text.

Jerusalem’s Deliverance Foretold(A)

37 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes(B) and put on sackcloth(C) and went into the temple(D) of the Lord. He sent Eliakim(E) the palace administrator, Shebna(F) the secretary, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.(G) They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress(H) and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth(I) and there is no strength to deliver them. It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule(J) the living God,(K) and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard.(L) Therefore pray(M) for the remnant(N) that still survives.”

When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah, Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid(O) of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed(P) me. Listen! When he hears a certain report,(Q) I will make him want(R) to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down(S) with the sword.’”

When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish,(T) he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.(U)

Now Sennacherib(V) received a report(W) that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,[a](X) was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: 10 “Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive(Y) you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.’(Z) 11 Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?(AA) 12 Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors(AB) deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran,(AC) Rezeph and the people of Eden(AD) who were in Tel Assar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad?(AE) Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim,(AF) Hena and Ivvah?”(AG)

Hezekiah’s Prayer(AH)

14 Hezekiah received the letter(AI) from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple(AJ) of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed(AK) to the Lord: 16 Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, enthroned(AL) between the cherubim,(AM) you alone are God(AN) over all the kingdoms(AO) of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.(AP) 17 Give ear, Lord, and hear;(AQ) open your eyes, Lord, and see;(AR) listen to all the words Sennacherib(AS) has sent to ridicule(AT) the living God.(AU)

18 “It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands.(AV) 19 They have thrown their gods into the fire(AW) and destroyed them,(AX) for they were not gods(AY) but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.(AZ) 20 Now, Lord our God, deliver(BA) us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth(BB) may know that you, Lord, are the only God.[b](BC)

Sennacherib’s Fall(BD)

21 Then Isaiah son of Amoz(BE) sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

“Virgin Daughter(BF) Zion(BG)
    despises and mocks you.
Daughter Jerusalem
    tosses her head(BH) as you flee.
23 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?(BI)
    Against whom have you raised your voice(BJ)
and lifted your eyes in pride?(BK)
    Against the Holy One(BL) of Israel!
24 By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,
    ‘With my many chariots(BM)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights(BN) of Lebanon.(BO)
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.(BP)
I have reached its remotest heights,
    the finest of its forests.
25 I have dug wells in foreign lands[c]
    and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
    I have dried up(BQ) all the streams of Egypt.(BR)

26 “Have you not heard?
    Long ago I ordained(BS) it.
In days of old I planned(BT) it;
    now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
    into piles of stone.(BU)
27 Their people, drained of power,
    are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,
like grass(BV) sprouting on the roof,(BW)
    scorched[d] before it grows up.

28 “But I know where you are
    and when you come and go(BX)
    and how you rage(BY) against me.
29 Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence(BZ) has reached my ears,
I will put my hook(CA) in your nose(CB)
    and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return
    by the way you came.(CC)

30 “This will be the sign(CD) for you, Hezekiah:

“This year(CE) you will eat what grows by itself,
    and the second year what springs from that.
But in the third year(CF) sow and reap,
    plant vineyards(CG) and eat their fruit.(CH)
31 Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah
    will take root(CI) below and bear fruit(CJ) above.
32 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,(CK)
    and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.(CL)
The zeal(CM) of the Lord Almighty
    will accomplish this.

33 “Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:

“He will not enter this city(CN)
    or shoot an arrow here.
He will not come before it with shield
    or build a siege ramp(CO) against it.
34 By the way that he came he will return;(CP)
    he will not enter this city,”
declares the Lord.
35 “I will defend(CQ) this city and save it,
    for my sake(CR) and for the sake of David(CS) my servant!”

36 Then the angel(CT) of the Lord went out and put to death(CU) a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian(CV) camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! 37 So Sennacherib(CW) king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh(CX) and stayed there.

38 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple(CY) of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat.(CZ) And Esarhaddon(DA) his son succeeded him as king.(DB)

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 37:9 That is, the upper Nile region
  2. Isaiah 37:20 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:19); Masoretic Text you alone are the Lord
  3. Isaiah 37:25 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:24); Masoretic Text does not have in foreign lands.
  4. Isaiah 37:27 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Kings 19:26); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text roof / and terraced fields

37 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.

And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

And they said unto him, Thus saith 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.

It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou 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 unto the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.

15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, saying,

16 O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.

17 Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath 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's 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 thou art the Lord, even thou only.

21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:

22 This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast 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 digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

26 Hast thou 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 thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced 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 thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, 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 saith 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, saith the Lord.

35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's 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 dwelt 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.