Isaiah 36

1 In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

1 وَفِي السَّنَةِ الرَّابِعَةِ عَشْرَةَ مِنْ حُكْمِ الْمَلِكِ حَزَقِيَّا، اجْتَاحَ سَنْحَارِيبُ مَلِكُ أَشُورَ جَمِيعَ مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا الْمُحَصَّنَةِ وَاسْتَوْلَى عَلَيْهَا.

2 And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.

2 وَوَجَّهَ مَلِكُ أَشُورَ رَبْشَاقَى (أَيْ الْقَائِدَ العَامَّ) مِنْ لَخِيشَ إِلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ إِلَى الْمَلِكِ حَزَقِيَّا عَلَى رَأْسِ جَيْشٍ جَرَّارٍ، فَوَقَفَ عِنْدَ قَنَاةِ الْبِرْكَةِ الْعُلْيَا عَلَى طَرِيقِ حَقْلِ الْقَصَّارِ.

3 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.

3 فَخَرَجَ لِلِقَائِهِ كُلٌّ مِنْ أَلْيَاقِيمَ بْنِ حِلْقِيَّا مُدِيرِ شُؤُونِ الْقَصْرِ، وَشَبْنَةَ الْكَاتِبِ وَيُوآخَ بْنِ آسَافَ الْمُسَجِّلِ.

4 The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?

4 فَقَالَ لَهُمُ رَبْشَاقَى الْقَائِدُ الْعَامُّ: «بَلِّغُوا حَزَقِيَّا: هَذَا مَا يَقُولُهُ الْمَلِكُ الْعَظِيمُ، مَلِكُ أَشُّورَ: عَلَى مَاذَا تَتَّكِلُ؟

5 You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

5 أَظَنَنْتَ أَنَّ مُجَرَّدَ الْكَلامِ يُشَكِّلُ خُطَّةً وَقُوَّةً لِخَوْضِ الْحَرْبِ؟ عَلَى مَنِ اعْتَمَدْتَ حَتَّى تَمَرَّدْتَ عَلَيَّ؟

6 Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

6 أَنْتَ تَتَّكِلُ عَلَى عُكَّازِ هَذِهِ القَصَبَةِ الْمَرْضُوضَةِ مِصْرَ، الَّتِي تَثْقُبُ كَفَّ كُلِّ مَنْ يَتَوَكَّأُ عَلَيْهَا. هَكَذَا يَكُونُ فِرْعَوْنُ مَلِكُ مِصْرَ لِكُلِّ مَنْ يَتَوَكَّأُ عَلَيْهِ.

7 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?

7 وَإذَا قُلْتُمْ لِي: إِنَّكُمْ تَوَكَّلْتُمْ عَلَى الرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ، أَلَيْسَ هُوَ الَّذِي هَدَمَ حَزَقِيَّا مُرْتَفَعَاتِهِ وَمَذَابِحَهُ، وَأَمَرَ شَعْبَ يَهُوذَا وَأَهْلَ أُورُشَلِيمَ أَنْ يَسْجُدُوا فَقَطْ أَمَامَ الْمَذْبَحِ الْقَائِمِ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ؟

8 Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!

8 وَالآنَ لِيَعْقِدْ حَزَقِيَّا رَهَاناً مَعَ سَيِّدِي مَلِكِ أَشُورَ: فَأُعْطِيَكَ أَلْفَي فَرَسٍ إِنِ اسْتَطَعْتَ أَنْ تَجِدَ لَهَا فُرْسَاناً يَمْتَطُونَهَا!

9 For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

9 فَكَيْفَ يُمْكِنُكَ أَنْ تَصُدَّ قَائِداً وَاحِداً مِنْ أَقَلِّ قَادَةِ سَيِّدِي شَأْناً فِي حِينِ أَنَّكَ تَعْتَمِدُ عَلَى مِصْرَ لإِمْدَادِكَ بِالْمَرْكَبَاتِ وَالْفُرْسَانِ؟

10 So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”

10 ثُمَّ هَلْ مِنْ غَيْرِ مَشُورَةِ الرَّبِّ زَحَفْتُ عَلَى هَذِهِ الدِّيَارِ لأُدَمِّرَهَا؟ لَقَدْ قَالَ لِي الرَّبُّ: هَاجِمْ هَذِهِ الدِّيَارَ وَخَرِّبْهَا».

11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

11 فَقَالَ أَلِيَاقِيمُ وَشَبْنَةُ وَيُوآخُ لِرَبْشَاقَى: «خَاطِبْ عَبِيدَكَ بِالأَرَامِيَّةِ لأَنَّنَا نَفْهَمُهَا، وَلا تُكَلِّمْنَا بِاللُّغَةِ الْيَهُودِيَّةِ عَلَى مَسْمَعِ الشَّعْبِ الْمُتَجَمِّعِ عَلَى السُّورِ».

12 But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

12 فَأَجَابَ رَبْشَاقَى: «أَتَظُنُّ أَنَّ سَيِّدِي قَدْ أَرْسَلَنِي إِلَى سَيِّدِكَ وَإِلَيْكَ فَقَطْ لِكَيْ أَتَحَدَّثَ بِهَذَا الْكَلامِ؟ أَلَيْسَ هَذَا الْكَلامُ أَيْضاً مُوَجَّهاً إِلَى الرِّجَالِ الْمُتَجَمِّعِينَ عَلَى السُّورِ، الَّذِينَ سَيَأْكُلُونَ مِثْلَكُمْ بِرَازَهُمْ وَيَشْرَبُونَ بَوْلَهُمْ؟»

13 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

13 ثُمَّ وَقَفَ القَائِدُ الْعَامُّ وَنَادَى بِأَعْلَى صَوْتِهِ قَائِلاً بِالْيَهُودِيَّةِ: «اسْمَعُوا كَلامَ الْمَلِكِ الْعَظِيمِ مَلِكِ أَشُورَ:

14 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.

14 لَا يَخْدَعَنَّكُمْ حَزَقِيَّا لأَنَّهُ عَاجِزٌ عَنْ إِنْقَاذِكُمْ،

15 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’

15 وَلا يُقْنِعَنَّكُمْ بِالاتِّكَالِ عَلَى الرَّبِّ قَائِلاً: إِنَّ الرَّبَّ حَتْماً يُنْقِذُنَا، وَلَنْ يَسْتَوْلِيَ مَلِكُ أَشُورَ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْمَدِينَةِ.

16 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,

16 لَا تُصْغُوا إِلَيْهِ، لأَنَّهُ هَكَذَا يَقُولُ مَلِكُ أَشُّورَ: اعْقِدُوا مَعِي صُلْحاً وَاسْتَسْلِمُوا إِلَيَّ فَيَأْكُلَ عِنْدَئِذٍ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْكُمْ مِنْ كَرْمِهِ وَمِنْ تِينَتِهِ، وَيَشْرَبَ مِنْ مَاءِ بِئْرِهِ،

17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

17 إِلَى أَنْ آتِيَ وَأَنْقُلَكُمْ إِلَى أَرْضٍ كَأَرْضِكُمْ، أَرْضِ حِنْطَةٍ وَخَمْرٍ وَخُبْزٍ وَكُرُومٍ.

18 Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

18 فَلا يَغُرَّنَّكُمْ حَزَقِيَّا بِقَوْلِهِ: إِنَّ الرَّبَّ يُنْقِذُنَا. هَلْ أَنْقَذَ أَحَدُ آلِهَةِ الأُمَمِ أَرْضَ شَعْبِهِ مِنْ يَدِ مَلِكِ أَشُورَ؟

19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

19 أَيْنَ آلِهَةُ حَمَاةَ وَأَرْفَادَ؟ أَيْنَ آلِهَةُ سَفَرْوَايِمَ؟ هَلْ أَنْقَذَتِ السَّامِرَةَ مِنْ يَدِي؟

20 Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

20 مَنْ مِنْ كُلِّ آلِهَةِ هَذِهِ الْبِلادِ اسْتَطَاعَ أَنْ يُنْقِذَ أَرْضَهُ مِنْ يَدِي؟ فَكَيْفَ يُنْقِذُ الرَّبُّ أُورُشَلِيمَ مِنِّي؟»

21 But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”

21 فَاعْتَصَمُوا بِالصَّمْتِ وَلَمْ يُجِيبُوا بِكَلِمَةٍ، لأَنَّ الْمَلِكَ أَمَرَ بِعَدَمِ الرَّدِّ عَلَيْهِ.

22 Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

22 وَرَجَعَ أَلِيَاقِيمُ بْنُ حِلْقِيَّا مُدِيرُ شُؤُونِ الْقَصْرِ وَشَبْنَةُ الْكَاتِبُ وَيُوآخُ بْنُ آسَافَ الْمُسَجِّلُ إِلَى حَزَقِيَّا بِثِيَابٍ مُمَزَّقَةٍ وَأَبْلَغُوهُ كَلامَ الْقَائِدِ الأَشُورِيِّ.