赛37:1 希西家王听见了，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进了耶和华的殿。
赛37:1 And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.
赛37:2 他差派管家以利亚敬、书记舍伯那和祭司中的长老，都披上麻布，去见亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚先知。
赛37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
赛37:3 他们对他说：“希西家这样说：‘今日是急难、责罚和凌辱的日子，就像婴孩快要出生的时候，却没有气力生出来一样。
赛37:3 And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.
赛37:4 也许耶和华你的 神听见拉伯沙基的话，就是他的主人亚述王派他来辱骂永活的 神的话；耶和华你的 神会因他所听见的话斥责他；因此，求你为余剩下来的人献上祷告。’”
赛37:4 It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.
赛37:5 希西家王的臣仆就去见以赛亚，
赛37:5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
赛37:6 以赛亚对他们说：“要对你们的主人这样说：‘耶和华这样说：你不要因为听见亚述王的仆人亵渎我的话而害怕。
赛37:6 And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.
赛37:7 看哪！我必使灵进入他里面，以致他听见风声就归回本地；我必使他在那里倒在刀下。’”
赛37:7 See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death.
赛37:8 拉伯沙基回去的时候，正遇见亚述王攻打立拿；原来他早已听闻亚述王拔营离开了拉吉。
赛37:8 So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah: for it had come to his ears that the king of Assyria had gone away from Lachish.
赛37:9 亚述王听到关于古实王特哈加的报告说：“他出来要与你争战”；亚述王听见了，就差派使者去见希西家，说：
赛37:9 And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, ... And he sent representatives to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying,
赛37:10 “你们要对犹大王希西家这样说：不要给你所倚靠的 神欺骗你说：耶路撒冷必不交在亚述王的手里。
赛37:10 This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
赛37:11 你必定听过亚述列王向列国所行的，就是把她们完全毁灭，难道你还有救吗？
赛37:11 No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate?
赛37:12 我列祖所毁灭的国，有歌撒、哈兰、利色和在提．拉撒的伊甸人，这些国的神曾拯救她们吗？
赛37:12 Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
赛37:13 哈马的王、亚珥拔的王、西法瓦音城的王、希拿和以瓦的王，现在都在哪里呢？”
赛37:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivva?
赛37:14 希西家从使者手里接过信卷，读完了，就上耶和华的殿，在耶和华面前把信卷展开。
赛37:14 And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord,
赛37:15 希西家向耶和华祷告说：
赛37:15 And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,
赛37:16 “万军之耶和华，以色列的 神，坐在二基路伯中间的啊！唯独你是地上万国的 神；你创造了天地。
赛37:16 O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
赛37:17 耶和华啊，求你侧耳而听！耶和华啊，求你开眼察看！要听西拿基立的一切话，就是那差派使者来辱骂永活的 神的。
赛37:17 Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.
赛37:18 耶和华啊！亚述列王果然使列国和他们的土地变成荒凉，
赛37:18 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,
赛37:19 又把列国的神都扔进火中；因为他们不是神，只是人手所做的，不过是木头和石头，所以他们就灭绝了他们。
赛37:19 And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
赛37:20 耶和华我们的 神啊！现在求你拯救我们脱离亚述王的手，使地上万国都知道唯有你耶和华是 神。”
赛37:20 But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.
赛37:21 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚就派人去见希西家，说：“耶和华以色列的 神这样说：‘因为你向我祷告关于亚述王西拿基立的事，
赛37:21 Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.
赛37:22 耶和华就有以下的话攻击他，说：锡安的处女藐视你，嗤笑你；耶路撒冷的女子在你背后摇头。
赛37:22 This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.
赛37:23 你辱骂谁、亵渎谁？你扬起声音，又高举眼目，要攻击谁？就是攻击以色列的圣者。
赛37:23 Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.
赛37:24 你借着你的臣仆辱骂主；你又说：我率领我众多的战车上了群山的高峰，到了黎巴嫩极深之处。我砍伐其中高大的香柏树和佳美的松树；我去到极高之处，进入肥田般的树林。
赛37:24 You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.
赛37:25 我挖井和喝水；我用我的脚掌踏干埃及的河流。’
赛37:25 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
赛37:26 耶和华说：‘难道你没有听见古时我所安排，往昔所计划的吗？现在我才使它成就，使坚固的城镇荒废，变作乱堆。
赛37:26 Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
赛37:27 因此，其中的居民软弱无力，惊惶羞愧，像田间的蔬菜和青绿的草，又像房顶上的草，还没有长起来，就干焦了。
赛37:27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.
赛37:28 你坐下，你出，你入，你向我发烈怒，我都知道。
赛37:28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.
赛37:29 因为你向我发烈怒，又因你的狂傲达到我耳中，我要把钩子放进你的鼻孔，把嚼环放进你的嘴里，使你从你来的路上回去。
赛37:29 Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.
赛37:30 希西家啊！这要作你的兆头：今年你们要吃自生的，明年还要吃自长的，后年你们就要撒种，要收割，要栽种葡萄园，吃园中的果子。
赛37:30 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.
赛37:31 犹大家所逃脱的余民，必再向下扎根，往上结果。
赛37:31 And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.
赛37:32 因为余下的人必从耶路撒冷出来，逃脱的人必从锡安山出来。万军之耶和华的热心必作成这事。’
赛37:32 For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
赛37:33 所以耶和华这样论到亚述王，说：‘他必不会来到这城，也不会在这里射箭；不会拿着盾牌来到城前，也不会筑土垒攻城。
赛37:33 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.
赛37:34 他从哪条路来，也必从那条路回去；他必不得进入这城；这是耶和华的宣告。
赛37:34 By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.
赛37:35 因我为自己的缘故，又为我仆人大卫的缘故，必保护这城，拯救这城。’”
赛37:35 For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
赛37:36 于是耶和华的使者出去，在亚述营中击杀了十八万五千人；到了早晨，有人起来，所见的都是死尸。
赛37:36 And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
赛37:37 亚述王西拿基立就拔营离去，返回本地，住在尼尼微。
赛37:37 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.
赛37:38 他在自己的神尼斯洛庙里叩拜的时候，他的儿子亚得米勒和沙利色用刀杀了他，然后逃到亚拉腊地。他的儿子以撒哈顿接续他作王。
赛37:38 And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword, and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon, his son, became king in his place.