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Yeluxalee yuav dim ntawm Xenakhawli
(Yxy. 37:1-20)
3Puab txawm has rua nwg tas, “Hexekhiya has le nuav tas, ‘Nub nua yog nub kws ntxhuv sab hab raug luas thuaj poob ntsej muag. Tej mivnyuas tub txug caij yug lawm kuas tsw muaj zug ntsub.
4Tej zag Yawmsaub kws yog koj tug Vaajtswv tub nov tej lug huvsw kws Axilia tug vaajntxwv kuas Lasakhe tuaj has saib tsw taug Vaajtswv kws muaj txujsa nyob, hab Yawmsaub yuav rhuav tshem tej lug kws Yawmsaub kws yog koj tug Vaajtswv tau nov. Yog le ntawd thov koj thov Yawmsaub paab cov tuabneeg kws tseed tshuav nyob nuav.’ ”
5Thaus vaajntxwv Hexekhiya cov tim xyoob tuaj cuag Yaxaya,
6Yaxaya has rua puab tas, “Ca le has rua mej tug vaajntxwv tas, ‘Yawmsaub has le nuav tas, Tsw xob ntshai tej lug kws mej tau nov hov, yog tej lug kws Axilia tug vaajntxwv tej num tswv thuaj kuv.
7Saib maj, kuv yuav tshoov nwg lub sab ua kuas nwg nov lug fuab lug cua mas nwg yuav rov qaab moog rua nwg lub tebchaws. Hab kuv yuav ua kuas nwg tuag nav ntaaj rua huv nwg lub tebchaws.’ ”
8Lasakhe txhad rov qaab moog mas ntswb Axilia tug vaajntxwv ua rog rua lub moos Lina, tsua qhov nwg nov tas vaajntxwv tub tawm huv Lakhi moog lawm.
9Thaus Axilia tug vaajntxwv nov xuv has tas Khuj⚓ tug vaajntxwv Thihakha tub sawv kev tuaj ntaus nwg lawm, nwg txawm khaiv tuabneeg xaa xuv rov moog has rua Hexekhiya has tas,
10“Mej yuav tsum has le nuav rua Yuta tug vaajntxwv Hexekhiya has tas, ‘Tsw xob ca koj tug Vaajtswv kws koj vaam khom ntawd daag has tas Yeluxalee yuav tsw raug muab rua huv Axilia tug vaajntxwv txhais teg.
11Saib maj, mej tub nov lawm tas Axilia tej vaajntxwv tub ua le caag rua ib tsoom tebchaws huvsw lawm, tub ua rua tej tebchaws puam tsuaj taag huvsw. Koj nev, koj yuav tau kev dim lov?
12Ib tsoom tebchaws tej daab paab tau puab dim lov? Tub yog tej tebchaws kws kuv tej laug muab ua puam tsuaj taag, yog lub moos Kauxaa, lub moos Halaa, lub moos Lexe hab cov tuabneeg Etee kws nyob huv lub moos Thee‑axa.
13Tug vaajntxwv huv lub moos Hama hab tug vaajntxwv huv Apa hab tug vaajntxwv huv Xefava‑i, hab tug vaajntxwv huv Hena hab tug vaajntxwv huv Iva dua twg lawm?’ ”
14Hexekhiya txais tsaab ntawv ntawm tug xaa xuv txhais teg hab nyeem. Mas Hexekhiya txhad moog rua huv Yawmsaub lub tuam tsev, hab muab tsaab ntawv nthuav rua ntawm Yawmsaub lub xubndag.
15Hab Hexekhiya thov ntawm Yawmsaub xubndag has tas, “Au Yawmsaub kws yog Yixayee tug Vaajtswv, kws nyob lub zwm txwv sau cov Khelunpee, koj tuab leeg xwb txhad yog ib tsoom tebchaws huv qaab ntuj tug Vaajtswv, koj tau tswm lub ntuj hab lub nplajteb.
16Au Yawmsaub, thov tig qhov ntsej noog. Au Yawmsaub, thov tsaa qhov muag saib, hab thov koj noog Xenakhawli tej lug huvsw kws nwg xaa tuaj thuaj luag Vaajtswv kws muaj txujsa nyob.
17Au Yawmsaub, yeej muaj tseeb le ntawd tag, Axilia tej vaajntxwv tau ua rua txhua haiv tuabneeg hab puab lub tebchaws puam tsuaj taag,
18hab muab puab tej txoov daab nrum rua huv suavtawg, vem tej hov yeej tsw yog timtswv, tsuas yog tej kws tuabneeg txhais teg ua xwb, yog ntoo hab pob zeb. Vem le hov tej hov txhad raug muab ua puam tsuaj taag.
19Au Yawmsaub kws yog peb tug Vaajtswv, nwgnuav kuv thov koj cawm peb dim huv nwg txhais teg, sub ib tsoom tebchaws huv nplajteb txhad paub tas koj yog Yawmsaub koj tuab leeg yog Vaajtswv.”
Yaxaya xaa xuv rua Hexekhiya
(Yxy. 37:21-38)
“ ‘Xi‑oo tug ntxhais dawb huv
saib tsw taug koj luag koj,
Yeluxalee tug ntxhais
cu hau quas nyo luag lawv koj qaab.
22“ ‘Koj thuaj hab has phem rua leejtwg?
Koj tsaa koj lub suab tawm tsaam leejtwg
hab koj khaav theeb zwg ncauj ntxw muag
rua leejtwg?
Yog ua rua cov Yixayee tug Vaajtswv
kws dawb huv ntaag.
23Koj muab lug rua koj cov tuabneeg xaa xuv
thuaj luag tug Tswv,⚓
hab koj tau khaav tas,
“Kuv muaj tsheb ua rog ntau heev,
kuv nce moog sau tej roob sab,
moog txug tej qhov kws deb kawg huv Lenpanoo.
Kuv tub muab nwg tej ntoo cab
kws sab kawg ntuv qaug
hab ntuv nwg tej ntoo cab nplooj suab
kws zoo nkauj kawg.
Kuv nkaag moog rua huv
qhov kws deb kawg nkaus
hab moog txug lub haav zoov
kws tsaus kawg nkaus.
24Kuv khawb qhov dej
hab haus lwm tebchaws le dej,
kuv txhais xwb taw tsuj Iyi tej haav
dej qhuav taag huvsw.”
25“ ‘Koj tsw tau nov lov?
Kuv tub npaaj ca le ntawd ntev lug lawm.
Tej num kws kuv ua nwgnuav
kuv tub hom ca thau u lug lawm, has tas
koj yuav ua rua tej moos
kws muaj ntsaa loog ruaj khov
pob taag ua tej nam pawg.
26Tej tuabneeg huv tej moos ntawd
qaug zug ntshaus ntsho poob sab taag
hab txaaj muag heev,
puab zoo le tej zaub huv teb
hab zoo le tej nroj mog mog,
zoo le tej nroj kws tuaj sau ruv tsev
kws ca le qhuav taag tsw hlub.
27“ ‘Kuv yeej paub qhov kws koj nyob tsawg
hab qhov kws koj tawm moog hab nkaag lug,
hab qhov kws koj npau tawg rua kuv.
28Vem koj tau npau tawg rua kuv
hab kuv tub nov qhov kws koj khaav theeb,
mas kuv yuav muab kuv tug nqai lauj
chob koj lub qhov ntswg
hab muab kuv txuj xauv
saam koj lub qhov ncauj,
mas kuv yuav caab koj tig hlo
rov qaab taug txujkev kws koj tuaj moog.’
29“Nuav yog tej txujci kws qha rua koj paub. Xyoo nuav koj yuav noj tej qoob loos kws nwg tuaj nwg. Xyoo ob koj yuav noj tej kws tuaj ntawm lub qub chaw. Mas xyoo peb ca le tseb hab hlais hab ua vaaj txwv maab hab noj tej txwv ntawd.
30Yuta caaj ceg cov kws dim hab tseed tshuav nyob yuav nrhau caag rua huv hab txw txwv rua sau.
31Vem tas muaj ib co kws tseed tshuav nyob yuav tawm huv Yeluxalee moog, hab muaj ib co kws dim yuav tawm huv lub roob Xi‑oo moog. Yawmsaub kws muaj fwjchim luj kawg nkaus yuav kub sab quas lug ua tej nuav.
32“Vem le nuav Yawmsaub txhad has txug Axilia tug vaajntxwv le nuav tas, Nwg yuav tsw nkaag lug rua huv lub nroog nuav hab tsw tua xub neev tuaj rua huv, hab tsw tuav daim hlau thaiv tuaj ze lub nroog hab tsw tsub aav ua chaw nce ntsaa loog.
33Nwg tuaj txujkev twg nwg yuav rov txujkev ntawd moog, nwg yuav tsw nkaag rua huv lub nroog nuav. Yawmsaub has le nuav ntaag.
34Kuv yuav tsom kwm lub nroog nuav ca kuas dim, vem saib rua kuv hab saib rua kuv tug tub qhe Tavi.”
35Mo ntawd Yawmsaub le tubkhai ntuj tawm moog tua Axilia cov tub rog huv puab lub yeej tuag 185,000 leej. Mas thaus sawv ntxuv puab sawv saib na cav cov ntawd tub tuag taag lawm.
36Tes Axilia tug vaajntxwv Xenakhawli txawm ca le sawv tseeg rov qaab moog tsev, moog nyob huv Ninave.
37Thaus nwg saamswm pe hawm huv lub tsev teev daab Nilau kws yog nwg tug daab, nwg ob tug tub Alamelej hab Salexaw txawm xuas ntaaj tua nwg tuag. Tes ob tug tswv moog rua Alalab tebchaws lawm. Mas nwg tug tub Exahantoo sawv kaav nyob nwg chaw.
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Jerusalem’s Deliverance Foretold
1When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord.
2He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
3They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them.
4It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.”
5When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah,
6Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.’ ”
8When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
9Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,⚓ was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:
10“Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.’
11Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?
12Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?
13Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?”
Hezekiah’s Prayer
14Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord.
15And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: “Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
16Give ear, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.
17“It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands.
18They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.
19Now, Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, Lord, are God.”
Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib’s Fall
20Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.
21This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:
“ ‘Virgin Daughter Zion
despises you and mocks you.
Daughter Jerusalem
tosses her head as you flee.
22Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
23By your messengers
you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,
“With my many chariots
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
the utmost heights of Lebanon.
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
the choicest of its junipers.
I have reached its remotest parts,
the finest of its forests.
24I have dug wells in foreign lands
and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
25“ ‘Have you not heard?
Long ago I ordained it.
In days of old I planned it;
now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
into piles of stone.
26Their people, drained of power,
are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
like tender green shoots,
like grass sprouting on the roof,
scorched before it grows up.
27“ ‘But I know where you are
and when you come and go
and how you rage against me.
28Because you rage against me
and because your insolence has reached my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return
by the way you came.’
29“This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah:
“This year you will eat what grows by itself,
and the second year what springs from that.
But in the third year sow and reap,
plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
30Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah
will take root below and bear fruit above.
31For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,
and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.
“The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.
32“Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:
“ ‘He will not enter this city
or shoot an arrow here.
He will not come before it with shield
or build a siege ramp against it.
33By the way that he came he will return;
he will not enter this city,
34I will defend this city and save it,
for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.’ ”
35That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!
36So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
37One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.