1 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. 2 And he sent Eliakim, which 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 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, 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 are left. 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 ¶ And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8 ¶ So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto 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 delivered 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 Thelasar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
14 ¶ And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth. 16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God. 17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, 18 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. 19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
20 ¶ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. 21 This is the word that 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. 22 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. 23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel. 24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places. 25 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 fenced cities into ruinous heaps. 26 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. 27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. 28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will 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. 29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof. 30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 31 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. 32 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 shield, nor cast a bank against it. 33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. 34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
35 ¶ And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 37 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 Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
1 quae cum audisset rex Ezechias
scidit vestimenta sua et opertus est sacco
ingressusque est domum Domini
2 et misit Eliachim praepositum domus et Sobnam scribam
et senes de sacerdotibus
opertos saccis ad Esaiam prophetam filium Amos
3 qui dixerunt haec dicit Ezechias
dies tribulationis et increpationis et blasphemiae dies iste
venerunt filii usque ad partum et vires non habet parturiens
4 si forte audiat Dominus Deus tuus universa verba Rabsacis
quem misit rex Assyriorum dominus suus
ut exprobraret Deum viventem
et argueret verbis quae audivit Dominus Deus tuus
et fac orationem pro reliquiis quae reppertae sunt
5 venerunt ergo servi regis Ezechiae ad Esaiam
6 dixitque eis Esaias haec dicetis domino vestro
haec dicit Dominus noli timere a facie sermonum quos audisti
quibus blasphemaverunt pueri regis Assyriorum me
7 ecce ego inmittam ei spiritum et audiet nuntium
et revertetur in terram suam
et deiciam eum gladio in terra sua
8 reversus est igitur Rabsaces
et invenit regem Assyriorum expugnantem Lobnam
audierat enim quod recessisset de Lachis
9 cumque audisset de Tharaca rege Aethiopiae dicentes
ecce egressus est ut pugnet adversum te
et iret contra eum
misit nuntios ad Ezechiam dicens
10 haec dicite Ezechiae regi Iudae
non te seducat Deus tuus in quo habes fiduciam neque dicas
non tradetur Hierusalem in manu regis Assyriorum
11 tu enim ipse audisti
quae fecerint reges Assyriorum universis terris
quomodo vastaverint eas
num ergo solus poteris liberari
12 numquid liberaverunt dii gentium singulos
quos vastaverunt patres mei
Gozan videlicet et Aran et Reseph
et filios Eden qui erant in Thelassar
13 ubi est rex Emath
et rex Arfad et rex civitatis Sepharvaim Ana et Ava
14 itaque cum accepisset Ezechias litteras de manu nuntiorum
et legisset eas
ascendit in domum Domini et expandit eas coram Domino
15 et oravit in conspectu eius dicens
Domine Deus Israhel qui sedes super cherubin
tu es Deus solus regum omnium terrae
tu fecisti caelum et terram
16 inclina aurem tuam et audi
aperi Domine oculos tuos et vide
et audi omnia verba Sennacherib
qui misit ut exprobraret nobis Deum viventem
17 vere Domine dissipaverunt reges Assyriorum gentes et terras omnium
18 et miserunt deos eorum in ignem
non enim erant dii
sed opera manuum hominum e ligno et lapide
et perdiderunt eos
19 nunc igitur Domine Deus noster
salvos nos fac de manu eius
ut sciant omnia regna terrae quia tu es Dominus Deus solus
20 misit autem Esaias filius Amos ad Ezechiam dicens
haec dicit Dominus Deus Israhel
quae deprecatus es me super Sennacherib rege Assyriorum audivi
21 iste est sermo quem locutus est Dominus de eo
sprevit te et subsannavit virgo filia Sion
post tergum tuum caput movit filia Hierusalem
22 cui exprobrasti et quem blasphemasti
contra quem exaltasti vocem
et elevasti in excelsum oculos tuos
contra Sanctum Israhel
23 per manum servorum tuorum exprobrasti Domino et dixisti
in multitudine curruum meorum ascendi excelsa montium
in summitate Libani
et succidi sublimes cedros eius electas abietes eius
et ingressus sum usque ad terminos eius
saltum Carmeli eius
24 ego succidi
et bibi aquas alienas
et siccavi vestigiis pedum meorum omnes aquas clausas
25 numquid non audisti quid ab initio fecerim
ex diebus antiquis plasmavi illud et nunc adduxi
eruntque in ruinam collium pugnantium civitates munitae
26 et qui sedent in eis humiles manu contremuerunt et confusi sunt
facti sunt quasi faenum agri et virens herba tectorum
quae arefacta est antequam veniret ad maturitatem
27 habitaculum tuum et egressum tuum et viam tuam ego praescivi
et furorem tuum contra me
28 insanisti in me et superbia tua ascendit in aures meas
ponam itaque circulum in naribus tuis
et camum in labris tuis
et reducam te in viam per quam venisti
29 tibi autem Ezechia hoc erit signum
comede hoc anno quod reppereris
in secundo autem anno quae sponte nascuntur
porro in anno tertio seminate et metite
plantate vineas et comedite fructum earum
30 et quodcumque reliquum fuerit de domo Iuda
mittet radicem deorsum et faciet fructum sursum
31 de Hierusalem quippe egredientur
reliquiae
et quod salvetur de monte Sion
zelus Domini exercituum faciet hoc
32 quam ob rem haec dicit Dominus de rege Assyriorum
non ingredietur urbem hanc nec mittet in eam sagittam
nec occupabit eam clypeus nec circumdabit eam munitio
33 per viam qua venit revertetur
et civitatem hanc non ingredietur dicit Dominus
34 protegamque urbem hanc et salvabo eam
propter me et propter David servum meum
35 factum est igitur in nocte illa venit angelus Domini
et percussit castra Assyriorum centum octoginta quinque
milia
cumque diluculo surrexisset vidit omnia corpora mortuorum
et recedens abiit
36 et reversus est Sennacherib rex Assyriorum
et mansit in Nineve
37 cumque adoraret in templo Neserach deum suum
Adramelech et Sarasar filii eius percusserunt eum gladio
fugeruntque in terram Armeniorum
et regnavit Eseraddon filius eius pro eo