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, 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. 3 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. 4 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. 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 ¶ 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. 7 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.
8 ¶ So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 9 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 Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
1 et factum est cum audisset rex Ezechias scidit vestimenta sua
et obvolutus est sacco et intravit in domum Domini
2 et misit Eliachim qui erat super domum
et Sobnam scribam et seniores de sacerdotibus opertos saccis
ad Isaiam filium Amos prophetam
3 et dixerunt ad eum haec dicit Ezechias
dies tribulationis et correptionis et blasphemiae dies haec
quia venerunt filii usque ad partum
et virtus non est parienti
4 si quo modo audiat Dominus Deus tuus verba Rabsaces
quem misit rex Assyriorum dominus suus
ad blasphemandum Deum viventem
et obprobrandum sermonibus
quos audivit Dominus Deus tuus
leva ergo orationem pro reliquiis quae reppertae sunt
5 et venerunt servi regis Ezechiae ad Isaiam
6 et dixit ad eos Isaias
haec dicetis domino vestro haec dicit Dominus
ne timeas a facie verborum quae audisti
quibus blasphemaverunt pueri regis Assyriorum me
7 ecce ego dabo ei spiritum et audiet nuntium
et revertetur ad terram suam
et corruere eum faciam gladio in terra sua
8 reversus est autem Rabsaces
et invenit regem Assyriorum proeliantem adversus Lobna
audierat enim quia profectus esset de Lachis
9 et audivit de Tharaca rege Aethiopiae dicentes
egressus est ut pugnet contra te
quod cum audisset misit nuntios ad Ezechiam dicens
10 haec dicetis Ezechiae regi Iudae loquentes
non te decipiat Deus tuus in quo tu confidis dicens
non dabitur Hierusalem in manu regis Assyriorum
11 ecce tu audisti omnia quae fecerunt reges Assyriorum
omnibus terris quas subverterunt
et tu poteris liberari
12 numquid eruerunt eos dii gentium quos subverterunt patres mei
Gozan et Aran et Reseph et filios Eden qui erant in Thalassar
13 ubi est rex Emath et rex Arfad
et rex urbis Seffarvaim Anahe et Ava
14 et tulit Ezechias libros de manu nuntiorum et legit eos
et ascendit in domum Domini
et expandit eos Ezechias coram Domino
15 et oravit Ezechias ad Dominum dicens
16 Domine exercituum Deus Israhel qui sedes super cherubin
tu es Deus solus omnium regnorum terrae
tu fecisti caelum et terram
17 inclina Domine aurem tuam et audi
aperi Domine oculos tuos et vide
et audi omnia verba Sennacherib
quae misit ad blasphemandum Deum viventem
18 vere enim Domine desertas fecerunt reges Assyriorum terras
et regiones earum
19 et dederunt deos earum igni
non enim erant dii
sed opera manuum hominum lignum et lapis
et comminuerunt eos
20 et nunc Domine Deus noster salva nos de manu eius
et cognoscant omnia regna terrae
quia tu es Dominus solus
21 et misit Isaias filius Amos ad Ezechiam dicens
haec dicit Dominus Deus Israhel
pro quibus rogasti me de Sennacherib rege Assyriorum
22 hoc est verbum quod locutus est Dominus super eum
despexit te subsannavit te virgo filia Sion
post te caput movit filia Hierusalem
23 cui exprobrasti et quem blasphemasti
et super quem exaltasti vocem
et levasti altitudinem oculorum tuorum
ad Sanctum Israhel
24 in manu servorum tuorum exprobrasti Domino et dixisti
in multitudine quadrigarum mearum
ego ascendi altitudinem montium iuga Libani
et succidam excelsa cedrorum eius electas abietes
illius
et introibo altitudinem summitatis eius saltum Carmeli eius
25 ego fodi et bibi aquam
et exsiccavi vestigio pedis mei omnes rivos aggerum
26 numquid non audisti quae olim fecerim ei
ex diebus antiquis ego plasmavi illud et nunc adduxi
et factum est in eradicationem collium conpugnantium et civitatum
munitarum
27 habitatores earum breviata manu contremuerunt et confusi sunt
facti sunt sicut faenum agri et gramen pascuae
et herba tectorum quae exaruit antequam maturesceret
28 habitationem tuam et egressum tuum et introitum tuum cognovi
et insaniam tuam contra me
29 cum fureres adversum me superbia tua ascendit in aures meas
ponam ergo circulum in naribus tuis et frenum in labiis tuis
et reducam te in via per quam venisti
30 tibi autem hoc erit signum
comede hoc anno quae sponte nascuntur
et in anno secundo pomis vescere
in anno autem tertio seminate et metite
et plantate vineas et comedite fructum earum
31 et mittet id quod salvatum fuerit de domo Iuda et quod reliquum est radicem deorsum
et faciet fructum sursum
32 quia de Hierusalem exibunt reliquiae et salvatio de monte Sion
zelus Domini exercituum faciet istud
33 propterea haec dicit Dominus de rege Assyriorum
non introibit civitatem hanc
et non iaciet ibi sagittam et non occupabit eam clypeus
et non mittet in circuitu eius aggerem
34 in via qua venit per eam revertetur
et civitatem hanc non ingredietur dicit Dominus
35 et protegam civitatem istam ut salvem eam
propter me et propter David servum meum
36 egressus est autem angelus Domini
et percussit in castris Assyriorum centum octoginta quinque
milia
et surrexerunt mane et ecce omnes cadavera mortuorum
37 et egressus est et abiit et reversus est Sennacherib rex Assyriorum
et habitavit in Nineve
38 et factum est cum adoraret in templo Nesrach deum suum
Adramelech et Sarasar filii eius percusserunt eum gladio
fugeruntque in terram Ararat
et regnavit Asoraddon filius eius pro eo