以賽亞書 37
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
希西迦向以賽亞求助
37 希西迦王聽後就撕裂衣服，披上麻衣，進入耶和華的殿。 2 他派身披麻衣的宮廷總管以利亞敬、書記舍伯那和祭司中的長者去見亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞先知， 3 對他說：「希西迦說，『今日是遭難、蒙羞、受辱的日子，就像嬰兒要出生，產婦卻無力生產一樣。 4 亞述王派他的元帥來辱罵永活的上帝，也許你的上帝耶和華聽見那些話，就懲罰他。請你為我們這些剩下的人禱告。』」 5 希西迦王的臣僕說完後， 6 以賽亞對他們說：「告訴你們主人，耶和華這樣說，『你不要因亞述王的僕人那些褻瀆我的話而害怕。 7 我必驚動[a]亞述王的心，讓他聽見風聲後便返回本國，使他在那裡死於刀下。』」
8 亞述的將軍聽說亞述王已經離開拉吉，便回去見王，發現王在攻打立拿。 9 亞述王聽說古實王特哈加要來攻打他，就派使者去對希西迦說： 10 「不要讓你所倚靠的上帝愚弄你，說什麼耶路撒冷必不會落在亞述王手中。 11 你肯定聽過亞述諸王掃滅列國的事，難道你能倖免嗎？ 12 我先祖毀滅了歌散、哈蘭、利色和提·拉撒的伊甸人，這些國家的神明救得了他們嗎？ 13 哈馬王、亞珥拔王、西法瓦音城的王、希拿王和以瓦王如今在哪裡呢？」
希西迦的禱告
14 希西迦從使者手中接過信，讀完後走進耶和華的殿，在耶和華面前展開信， 15 禱告說： 16 「坐在二基路伯天使之上、以色列的上帝——萬軍之耶和華啊，唯有你是天下萬國的上帝，你創造了天地。 17 耶和華啊，求你側耳垂聽！耶和華啊，求你睜眼察看！求你聽聽西拿基立派人來辱罵永活上帝的話。 18 耶和華啊，亞述諸王確實掃滅列國，使其土地荒涼， 19 把他們的神像丟進火中燒毀。因為那些神像只是人用木頭石頭製造的，根本不是神。 20 我們的上帝耶和華啊，現在求你從亞述王手中拯救我們，讓天下萬國都知道唯有你是耶和華。」
預言亞述必敗
21 亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞先知派人對希西迦說：「以色列的上帝耶和華說，『因為你就亞述王西拿基立的事向我禱告， 22 以下是耶和華對他的判語，
『錫安的居民藐視你，嘲笑你；
耶路撒冷的居民朝你逃竄的背影搖頭。
23 『你在侮辱、褻瀆誰呢？
你不放在眼裡、高聲罵的是誰呢？
是以色列的聖者！
24 你藉你的使者侮辱主。
你說你帶著許多戰車上到群山之巔，
上到黎巴嫩的巔峰，
砍下最高的香柏樹和上好的松樹，
征服最高的山和最美的樹林。
25 你說你已在外邦之地挖井喝水，
已用腳掌踏乾埃及的河流。
26 『難道你不知這是我在遠古所定的嗎？
如今我要實現我昔日所定的計劃，
就是藉著你使堅城淪為廢墟。
27 城中的居民軟弱無力，
驚慌失措，羞愧難當，
脆弱如野草和菜蔬，
又像還未長大就被曬焦的房頂草。
28 『你起你坐，你出你進，
你向我發怒，我都知道。
29 因為你向我發怒，
你狂傲的話達到了我耳中，
我要用鉤子鉤住你的鼻子，
把嚼環放在你嘴裡，
使你原路返回。』
30 「希西迦啊，我要給你一個兆頭。你們今年明年要吃野生的，後年要撒種，收割，栽種葡萄園，吃園中的果子。 31 猶大的倖存者要再次向下扎根，向上結果。 32 因為將有餘民從耶路撒冷出來，有倖存者從錫安山出來。萬軍之耶和華必熱切地成就這事。 33 至於亞述王，耶和華說，『他必不能進城或向這裡射一箭，必不能手持盾牌兵臨城下或修築攻城的高臺。 34 他必原路返回，不得進入這城。這是耶和華說的。 35 我必為自己和我僕人大衛而保護、拯救這城。』」
36 於是，耶和華的天使到亞述營中殺了十八萬五千人。人們清早起來，發現到處是屍體。 37 亞述王西拿基立便拔營回國，住在尼尼微。 38 有一天，他在廟中祭拜他的神明尼斯洛的時候，他兒子亞得米勒和沙利色用刀殺了他，然後逃往亞拉臘。他兒子以撒哈頓繼位。
Footnotes
- 37·7 「驚動」希伯來文是「使靈進入」。
Isaiah 37
English Standard Version
Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah's Help
37 (A)As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore 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 secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet (B)Isaiah the son of Amoz. 3 They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a (C)day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; (D)children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. 4 (E)It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for (F)the remnant that is left.’”
5 When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, 6 Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have reviled me. 7 Behold, (G)I will put a spirit in him, so that (H)he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and (I)I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.’”
8 The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against (J)Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left (K)Lachish. 9 Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of (L)Cush,[a] “He has set out to fight against you.” And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 “Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: (M)‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered? 12 (N)Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, (O)Gozan, (P)Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? 13 (Q)Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?’”
Hezekiah's Prayer for Deliverance
14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: 16 “O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, (R)enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; (S)you have made heaven and earth. 17 (T)Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear (U)all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. 18 Truly, O Lord, (V)the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands, 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 were destroyed. 20 So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.”
Sennacherib's Fall
21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:
“‘She despises you, she scorns you—
(W)the virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you—
the daughter of Jerusalem.
23 “‘Whom have you mocked and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
Against (X)the Holy One of Israel!
24 By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, (Y)With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon,
(Z)to cut down its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
its most fruitful forest.
25 I dug wells
and drank waters,
to dry up with the sole of my foot
all (AA)the streams (AB)of Egypt.
26 (AC)“‘Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,
27 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted[b] before it is grown.
28 “‘I know your sitting down
and your going out and coming in,
and your raging against me.
29 (AD)Because you have raged against me
and your complacency has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and (AE)I will turn you back on the way
by which you came.’
30 “And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah (AF)shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32 (AG)For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. (AH)The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
33 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there or come before it with a shield or (AI)cast up a siege mound against it. 34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord. 35 (AJ)For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for (AK)the sake of my servant David.”
36 (AL)And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 37 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at (AM)Nineveh. 38 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of (AN)Ararat, (AO)Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 37:9 Probably Nubia
- Isaiah 37:27 Some Hebrew manuscripts and 2 Kings 19:26; most Hebrew manuscripts a field
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