希西家聞之而憂
Jerusalem’s Deliverance Foretold
第十九章 2 Kings 19
1.希西家王聽見，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，進了耶和華的殿；
When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the LORD.
2.使家宰以利亞敬和書記舍伯那，並祭司中的長老，都披上麻布，去見亞摩斯的兒子先知以賽亞，
He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
3.對他說：「希西家如此說：『今日是急難、責罰、凌辱的日子，就如婦人將要生產嬰孩，卻沒有力量生產。
They told him, 「This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them.
4.或者耶和華你的 神聽見拉伯沙基的一切話，就是他主人亞述王打發他來辱罵永生 神的話，耶和華你的 神聽見這話，就發斥責。故此，求你為餘剩的民揚聲禱告。』」
It may be that the LORD your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the LORD your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.」
以賽亞之慰詞 希西家祈禱
5.希西家王的臣僕就去見以賽亞。
When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah,
6.以賽亞對他們說：「要這樣對你們的主人說，耶和華如此說：『你聽見亞述王的僕人褻瀆我的話，不要懼怕。
Isaiah said to them, 「Tell your master, 『This is what the LORD says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7.我必驚動【原文作使靈進入】他的心，他要聽見風聲就歸回本地。我必使他在那裏倒在刀下。』」
Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.』」
8.拉伯沙基回去，正遇見亞述王攻打立拿，原來他早聽見亞述王拔營離開拉吉。
When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
9.亞述王聽見人論古實王特哈加說：「他出來要與你爭戰。」於是亞述王又打發使者去見希西家，吩咐他們說：
Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,[a] was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:
10.「你們對猶大王希西家如此說：『不要聽你所倚靠的 神欺哄你說，耶路撒冷必不交在亞述王的手中。
「Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, 『Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.』
11.你總聽說亞述諸王向列國所行的，乃是盡行滅絕，難道你還能得救嗎？
Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?
12.我列祖所毀滅的，就是歌散、哈蘭、利色，和屬提．拉撒的伊甸人，這些國的神何曾拯救這些國呢？
Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?
13.哈馬的王、亞珥拔的王、西法瓦音城的王、希拿，和以瓦的王都在哪裏呢？』」
Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?」
Hezekiah’s Prayer
14.希西家從使者手裏接過書信來，看完了，就上耶和華的殿，將書信在耶和華面前展開。
Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.
15.希西家向耶和華禱告說：「坐在二基路伯上耶和華以色列的 神啊，你是天下萬國的 神，你曾創造天地。
And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: 「LORD, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
16.耶和華啊，求你側耳而聽！耶和華啊，求你睜眼而看！要聽西拿基立打發使者來辱罵永生 神的話。
Give ear, LORD, and hear; open your eyes, LORD, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.
17.耶和華啊，亞述諸王果然使列國和列國之地變為荒涼，
「It is true, LORD, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands.
18.將列國的神像都扔在火裏；因為它本不是神，乃是人手所造的，是木頭石頭的，所以滅絕它。
They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.
19.耶和華我們的 神啊，現在求你救我們脫離亞述王的手，使天下萬國都知道惟獨你耶和華是 神！」
Now, LORD our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, LORD, are God.」
以賽亞預言耶和華拯救
Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib’s Fall
20.亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞就打發人去見希西家，說：「耶和華以色列的 神如此說：『你既然求我攻擊亞述王西拿基立，我已聽見了。』
Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: 「This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.
21.耶和華論他這樣說：錫安的處女藐視你，嗤笑你；耶路撒冷的女子向你搖頭。
This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: 「『Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and mocks you. Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.
22.你辱罵誰？褻瀆誰？揚起聲來，高舉眼目攻擊誰呢？乃是攻擊以色列的聖者！
Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
23.你藉你的使者辱罵主，並說：我率領許多戰車上山頂，到利巴嫩極深之處；我要砍伐其中高大的香柏樹和佳美的松樹；我必上極高之處，進入肥田的樹林。
By your messengers you have ridiculed the LORD. And you have said, 「With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its junipers. I have reached its remotest parts, the finest of its forests.
24.我已經在外邦挖井喝水；我必用腳掌踏乾埃及的一切河。
I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.」
25.耶和華說，我早先所做的，古時所立的，就是現在藉你使堅固城荒廢，變為亂堆，這事你豈沒有聽見嗎？
「『Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.
26.所以其中的居民力量甚小，驚惶羞愧。他們像野草，像青菜，如房頂上的草，又如未長成而枯乾的禾稼。
Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched before it grows up.
27.你坐下，你出去，你進來，你向我發烈怒，我都知道。
「『But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me.
28.因你向我發烈怒，又因你狂傲的話達到我耳中，我就要用鈎子鈎上你的鼻子，把嚼環放在你口裏，使你從你來的路轉回去。
Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.』
29.以色列人哪，我賜你們一個證據：你們今年要吃自生的，明年也要吃自長的；至於後年，你們要耕種收割，栽植葡萄園，吃其中的果子。
「This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: 「This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
30.猶大家所逃脫餘剩的，仍要往下扎根，向上結果。
Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above.
31.必有餘剩的民從耶路撒冷而出；必有逃脫的人從錫安山而來。耶和華的熱心必成就這事。
For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. 「The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
32.所以，耶和華論亞述王如此說：『他必不得來到這城，也不在這裏射箭，不得拿盾牌到城前，也不築壘攻城。
「Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria: 「『He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it.
33.他從哪條路來，必從哪條路回去，必不得來到這城。這是耶和華說的。
By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city, declares the LORD.
34.因我為自己的緣故，又為我僕人大衛的緣故，必保護拯救這城。』」
I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.』」
35.當夜，耶和華的使者出去，在亞述營中殺了十八萬五千人。清早有人起來，一看，都是死屍了。
That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!
36.亞述王西拿基立就拔營回去，住在尼尼微。
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
37.一日在他的神尼斯洛廟裏叩拜，他兒子亞得米勒和沙利色用刀殺了他，就逃到亞拉臘地。他兒子以撒哈頓接續他作王。
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king. |
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