2 Kings 19 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And it came to be, when Sovereign Ḥ

² and sent Elyaqim, who was over the household, and Sheḇ

³ And they said to him, “Thus said Ḥ

⁴ ‘It could be that יהוה  your Elohim does hear all the words of the Raḇ

⁵ And the servants of Sovereign Ḥ

⁶ and Yeshayahu said to them, “Say this to your master, ‘Thus said יהוה, “Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the sovereign of Ashshur have reviled Me.

⁷ “See, I am putting a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a report and return to his own land. And I shall cause him to fall by the sword in his land.” ’ ”

⁸ And the Raḇ

⁹ And when the sovereign heard concerning Tirhaqah sovereign of Kush, “See, he has come out to fight against you,” he again sent messengers to Ḥ

¹⁰ “Speak to Ḥ

¹¹ ‘See, you have heard what the sovereigns of Ashshur have done to all lands by putting them under the ban. And are you going to be delivered?

¹² ‘Have the mighty ones of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed: Gozan and Ḥ

¹³ ‘Where is the sovereign of Ḥ

¹⁴ And Ḥ

¹⁵ And Ḥ

¹⁶ “Incline Your ear, O יהוה, and hear. Open Your eyes, O יהוה, and see. And hear the words of Sanḥ

¹⁷ “Truly, יהוה, the sovereigns of Ashshur have laid waste the nations and their lands,

¹⁸ and have put their mighty ones into the fire, for they were not mighty ones, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, and destroyed them.

¹⁹ “And now, O יהוה  our Elohim, I pray, save us from his hand, so that all the reigns of the earth know that You are יהוה  Elohim, You alone.”

²⁰ Then Yeshayahu son of Amots sent to Ḥ

²¹ “This is the word which יהוה  has spoken concerning him, ‘The maiden, the daughter of Tsiyon, has despised you, mocked you; the daughter of Yerushalayim has shaken her head behind you!

²² ‘Whom have you reproached and reviled? Against whom have you raised a voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕ

²³ ‘By the hand of your messengers you have reproached יהוה, and said, “With my many chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Leḇ

²⁴ ‘I have dug and drunk strange water, and with the soles of my feet I dry up all the streams of defence.”

²⁵ ‘Have you not heard long ago, I made it; from days of old I formed it? Now I have brought it to be, that you should make walled cities ruinous heaps.

²⁶ ‘And their inhabitants were powerless, they were overthrown and put to shame, they were as the grass of the field and the green plants, as the grass on the house-tops and withered before it came up.

²⁷ ‘But I know your sitting down, and your going out and your coming in, and your rage against Me.

²⁸ ‘Because your rage against Me and your pride have come up to My ears, I shall put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I shall turn you back by the way which you came.

²⁹ ‘And this is the sign for you: This year you eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that, and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

³⁰ ‘And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Yehuḏ

³¹ ‘For out of Yerushalayim comes forth a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Tsiyon – the ardour of יהוה  does this.’

³² “Therefore thus said יהוה  concerning the sovereign of Ashshur, ‘He does not come into this city, nor does he shoot an arrow there, nor does he come before it with shield, nor does he build a siege mound against it.

³³ ‘By the way that he came, by the same he turns back. And he does not come into this city,’ declares יהוה.

³⁴ ‘And I shall defend this city, to save it for My own sake and for the sake of Dawiḏ

³⁵ And it came to be in that night that the messenger of יהוה  went out, and smote in the camp of Ashshur one hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they rose up early in the morning and saw all of them dead bodies.

³⁶ And Sanḥ

³⁷ And it came to be, as he was bowing himself in the house of Nisroḵ