Isaiah 37

vayehi kishmoa hammelekh khizqiyyahu vayyiqra et-begadayw vayyitkas bassaq vayyavo bet Adonai

When King Hezekiah heard this, he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the House of GOD.

vayyishlakh et-elyaqim asher-al-habbayit ve'et shevna hassofer ve'et ziqne hakkohanim mitkassim bassaqqim el-yeshayahu ven-amots hannavi

He also sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna, the scribe, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.

vayyomeru elayw koh amar khizqiyyahu yom-tsarah vetokhekhah une'atsah hayyom hazzeh ki va'u vanim ad-mashber vekhoakh ayin leledah

They said to him, “Thus said Hezekiah: This day is a day of distress, of chastisement, and of disgrace. The babes have reached the birthstool, but the strength to give birth is lacking.

ulay yishma Adonai elohekha et divre ravshaqeh asher shelakho melekh-ashur adonayw lekharef elohim khay vehokhiakh baddevarim asher shama Adonai elohekha venasata tefillah be'ad hashe'erit hannimtsa'ah

Perhaps the ETERNAL your God will take note of the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to blaspheme the living God, and will mete out judgment for the words that the ETERNAL your God has heard—if you will offer up prayer for the surviving remnant.”

vayyavo'u avde hammelekh khizqiyyahu el-yeshayahu

When King Hezekiah’s ministers came to Isaiah,

vayyomer alehem yeshayahu koh tomerun el-adonekhem koh amar Adonai al-tira mippene haddevarim asher shamata asher giddefu na'are melekh-ashur oti

Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master as follows: Thus said GOD: Do not be frightened by the words of blasphemy against Me that you have heard from the minions of the king of Assyria.

hinni noten bo ruakh veshama shemu'ah veshav el-artso vehippaltiv bakherev be'artso

I will delude him: He will hear a rumor and return to his land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his land.”

vayyashov ravshaqeh vayyimtsa et-melekh ashur nilkham al-livnah ki shama ki nasa millakhish

The Rabshakeh, meanwhile, heard that [the king] had left Lachish; he turned back and found the king of Assyria attacking Libnah.

vayyishma al-tirhaqah melekh-kush lemor yatsa lehillakhem ittakh vayyishma vayyishlakh malakhim el-khizqiyyahu lemor

But [the king of Assyria] learned that King Tirhakah of Cush had come out to fight him; and when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

koh tomerun el-khizqiyyahu melekh-yehudah lemor al-yashi'akha elohekha asher attah boteakh bo lemor lo tinnaten yerushalai͏m beyad melekh ashur

“Tell this to King Hezekiah of Judah: Do not let your God, on whom you are relying, mislead you into thinking that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hands of the king of Assyria.

hinneh attah shamata asher asu malkhe ashur lekhol-ha'aratsot lehakharimam ve'attah tinnatsel

You yourself have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, how they have annihilated them; and can you escape?

hahitsilu otam elohe haggoyim asher hishkhitu avotay et-gozan ve'et-kharan veretsef uvene-eden asher bitlassar

Were the nations that my predecessors destroyed—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the Bethedenites in Telassar—saved by their gods?

ayyeh melekh-khamat umelekh arpad umelekh la'ir sefarvayim hena ve'ivvah

Where is the king of Hamath? and the king of Arpad? and the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?”

vayyiqqakh khizqiyyahu et-hassefarim miyyad hammalakhim vayyiqra'ehu vayya'al bet Adonai vayyifresehu khizqiyyahu lifne Adonai

Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Hezekiah then went up to the House of GOD and spread it out before GOD.

vayyitpallel khizqiyyahu el-Adonai lemor

And Hezekiah prayed to GOD:

Adonai tseva'ot elohe yisra'el yoshev hakkeruvim attah-hu ha'elohim levaddekha lekhol mamlekhot ha'arets attah asita et-hashamayim ve'et-ha'arets

“O GOD of Hosts—God of Israel—Enthroned on the Cherubim! You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

hatteh Adonai oznekha ushema peqakh Adonai enekha ure'eh ushema et kol-divre sankheriv asher shalakh lekharef elohim khay

O ETERNAL One, incline Your ear and hear, open Your eye and see. Hear all the words that Sennacherib has sent to blaspheme the living God!

omnam Adonai hekherivu malkhe ashur et-kol-ha'aratsot ve'et-artsam

True, O ETERNAL One, the kings of Assyria have annihilated all the nations and their lands

venaton et-elohehem ba'esh ki lo elohim hemmah ki im-ma'aseh yede-adam ets va'even vaye'abbedum

and have committed their gods to the flames and have destroyed them; for they are not gods, but the handiwork of mere mortals, wood and stone.

ve'attah Adonai elohenu hoshi'enu miyyado veyede'u kol-mamlekhot ha'arets ki-attah Adonai levaddekha

But now, O ETERNAL One our God, deliver us from his hands, and let all the kingdoms of the earth know that You, O ETERNAL One, alone [are God].”

vayyishlakh yeshayahu ven-amots el-khizqiyyahu lemor koh-amar Adonai elohe yisra'el asher hitpallalta elay el-sankheriv melekh ashur

Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “Thus said GOD, the God of Israel, to whom you have prayed, concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria—

zeh haddavar asher-dibber Adonai alayw bazah lekha la'agah lekha betulat bat-tsiyyon akharekha rosh heni'ah bat yerushalai͏m

this is the word that GOD has spoken concerning him: Fair Maiden Zion despises you, She mocks at you; Fair Jerusalem shakes Her head at you.

et-mi kherafta vegiddafta ve'al-mi harimotah qol vattissa marom enekha el-qedosh yisra'el

Whom have you blasphemed and reviled? Against whom made loud your voice And haughtily raised your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

beyad avadekha kherafta adonay vattomer berov rikhbi ani aliti merom harim yarkete levanon ve'ekhrot qomat arazayw mivkhar beroshayw ve'avo merom qitso ya'ar karmillo

Through your servants you have blasphemed the Sovereign. Because you thought, ‘Thanks to my vast chariotry, It is I who have climbed the highest mountains, To the remotest parts of the Lebanon, And have cut down its loftiest cedars, Its choicest cypresses, And have reached its highest peak, Its densest forest.

ani qarti veshatiti mayim ve'akhriv bekhaf-pe'amay kol ye'ore matsor

It is I who have drawn And drunk water. I have dried up with the soles of my feet All the streams of Egypt.’

halo-shamata lemerakhoq otah asiti mime qedem vitsartiha attah havetiha utehi lehashot gallim nitsim arim betsurot

Have you not heard? Of old I planned that very thing, I designed it long ago, And now have fulfilled it. And it has come to pass, Laying fortified towns waste in desolate heaps.

veyoshevehen qitsre-yad khattu vavoshu hayu esev sadeh viraq deshe khatsir gaggot ushedemah lifne qamah

Their inhabitants are helpless, Dismayed and shamed. They were but grass of the field And green herbage, Grass of the roofs that is blasted Before the east wind.

veshivtekha vetsetekha uvo'akha yada'eti ve'et hitraggezkha elay

I know your stayings And your goings and comings, And how you have raged against Me,

ya'an hitraggezkha elay vesha'anankha alah ve'oznay vesamti khakhi be'appekha umitgi bisfatekha vahashivotikha badderekh asher-bata bah

Because you have raged against Me, And your tumult has reached My ears, I will place My hook in your nose And My bit between your jaws; And I will make you go back by the road By which you came.

vezeh-llekha ha'ot akhol hashanah safiakh uvashanah hashenit shakhis uvashanah hashelishit ziru veqitsru venitu kheramim (vkhvl) [ve'ikhlu] firyam

“And this is the sign for you: This year you eat what grows of itself, and the next year what springs from that, and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

veyasefah peletat bet-yehudah hannisharah shoresh lemattah ve'asah feri lema'elah

And the survivors of the House of Judah that have escaped shall renew its trunk below and produce boughs above.

ki mirushalai͏m tetse she'erit ufeletah mehar tsiyyon qinat Adonai tseva'ot ta'aseh-zzot

For a remnant shall come forth from Jerusalem, Survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of GOD of Hosts Shall bring this to pass.

lakhen koh-amar Adonai el-melekh ashur lo yavo el-ha'ir hazzot velo-yoreh sham khets velo-yeqaddemennah magen velo-yishpokh aleha solelah

“Assuredly, thus said GOD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not enter this city; He shall not shoot an arrow at it, Or advance upon it with a shield, Or pile up a siege mound against it.

badderekh asher-ba bah yashuv ve'el-ha'ir hazzot lo yavo ne'um-Adonai

He shall go back By the way he came, He shall not enter this city —declares GOD;

vegannoti al-ha'ir hazzot lehoshi'ah lema'ani ulema'an david avdi

I will protect and save this city for My sake And for the sake of My servant David.”

vayyetse malakh Adonai vayyakkeh bemakhaneh ashur me'ah ushemonim vakhamisha alef vayyashkimu vabboqer vehinneh khullam pegarim metim

[That night] an angel of GOD went out and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp, and the following morning they were all dead corpses.

vayyissa vayyelekh vayyashov sankheriv melekh-ashur vayyeshev benineveh

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and retreated, and stayed in Nineveh.

vayehi hu mishtakhaveh bet nisrokh elohayw ve'adrammelekh vesaretser banayw hikkuhu vakherev vehemmah nimletu erets ararat vayyimlokh esar-khaddon beno takhtayw

While he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, he was struck down with the sword by his sons Adrammelech and Sarezer. They fled to the land of Ararat, and his son Esarhaddon succeeded him as king.