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 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,37:9 That is, the upper Nile region was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he 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: 16“Lord Almighty, 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. 17Give ear, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see; listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.
18“It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands. 19They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands. 20Now, Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Lord, are the only God.37:20 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:19); Masoretic Text you alone are the Lord”
Sennacherib’s Fall
21Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:
“Virgin Daughter Zion
despises and mocks you.
Daughter Jerusalem
tosses her head as you flee.
23Who 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!
24By 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 heights,
the finest of its forests.
25I have dug wells in foreign lands37:25 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:24); Masoretic Text does not have in foreign lands.
and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.’
26“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.
27Their 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,
scorched37:27 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Kings 19:26); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text roof / and terraced fields before it grows up.
28“But I know where you are
and when you come and go
and how you rage against me.
29Because 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.
30“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.
31Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah
will take root below and bear fruit above.
32For 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.
33“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.
34By the way that he came he will return;
he will not enter this city,”
declares the Lord.
35“I will defend this city and save it,
for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!”
36Then 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! 37So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
38One 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.
Keezeekiya Akaabirira Mukama
1Awo kabaka Keezeekiya bwe yabiwulira n’ayuza engoye ze n’ayambala ebibukutu n’ayingira mu nnyumba ya Mukama. 237:2 Is 1:1N’atuma Eriyakimu eyali akulira olubiri ne Sebuna omuwandiisi ne bakabona abakulu, nga bambadde ebibukutu, eri nnabbi Isaaya mutabani wa Amozi. 337:3 Is 26:18; 66:9; Kos 13:13Ne bamugamba nti, “Keezeekiya atutumye okukugamba nti, Olunaku luno lunaku lwa kulabiramu nnaku era lwa kuvumirwamu era lwa kujoogebwa; kubanga abaana batuuse okuzaalibwa naye nga tewali maanyi ga kubazaala. 437:4 a Is 36:13, 18-20 b Is 1:9Oboolyawo Mukama Katonda wo anaawulira ebigambo bya Labusake eyatumibwa kabaka w’e Bwasuli mukama we okuvuma Katonda omulamu, Mukama Katonda wo n’amunenya olw’ebigambo by’awulidde: Kale waayo okusaba kwo wegayiririre ekitundu ekikyasigaddewo.”
5Abaddu ba kabaka Keezeekiya bwe bajja eri Isaaya, 637:6 Is 7:4Isaaya n’abagamba nti, “Mutegeeze mukama wammwe nti, ‘Bw’ati bw’ayogera Mukama nti, Ebigambo by’owulidde abaddu ba kabaka w’e Bwasuli bye banvumye, tebikutiisa. 737:7 nny 9Laba ndimusindikira omwoyo omubi, awulire olugambo addeyo mu nsi ye. Era eyo gye ndimuzikiririza afe ekitala.’ ”
837:8 Kbl 33:20Awo Labusake omuduumizi wa Bwasuli bwe yaddayo, n’asanga kabaka w’e ng’alwana ne Libuna: kubanga yawulira nti avudde e Lakisi.
937:9 nny 7Ate era kabaka Sennakeribu n’afuna obubaka nti Tiraaka kabaka w’e Kuusi azze okumulwanyisa. Bwe yakiwulira n’asindika ababaka eri Keezeekiya n’obubaka buno nti, 1037:10 Is 36:15“Keezeekiya kabaka wa Yuda mumugambe nti, Katonda wo gwe weesiga takulimbanga ng’ayogera nti, ‘Yerusaalemi tekirigabulwa mu mukono gwa kabaka w’e Bwasuli.’ 1137:11 Is 36:18-20Laba wawulira bakabaka b’e Bwasuli kye baakola amawanga gonna, ne bagazikiririza ddala. Mwe munaawona? 1237:12 a 2Bk 18:11 b Lub 11:31; 12:1-4; Bik 7:2Amawanga bakitange ge baasaanyaawo, Gozani, ne Kalani, ne Lezefu n’abantu ba Adeni abaabanga mu Terasali, bakatonda baago, baabayamba? 13Ali ludda wa kabaka w’e Kamasi ne kabaka w’e Alupadi ne kabaka w’ekibuga Sefarayimu oba ow’e Keena, oba ow’e Yiva?”
Okusaba kwa Keezeekiya
14Keezeekiya n’aggya ebbaluwa mu mukono gw’ababaka n’agisoma: Keezeekiya n’ayambuka mu nnyumba ya Mukama n’agyanjuluza mu maaso ga Mukama. 15N’asaba ne yeegayirira Mukama nga agamba nti, 1637:16 Ma 10:17; Zab 86:10; 136:2-3“Ayi Mukama ow’Eggye, Katonda wa Isirayiri, atuula wakati mu bakerubbi, ggwe Katonda wekka afuga obwakabaka bwonna obw’omu nsi, ggwe wakola eggulu n’ensi. 1737:17 a 2By 6:40 b Dan 9:18Otege okutu kwo Ayi Mukama owulire, ozibule amaaso go, Ayi Mukama, olabe: owulire ebigambo byonna ebya Sennakeribu by’aweerezza okuvuma Katonda omulamu.
1837:18 2Bk 15:29; Nak 2:11-12“Mazima ddala Mukama, bakabaka b’e Bwasuli baazisa amawanga gonna n’ensi zaago, 1937:19 a Is 26:14 b Is 41:24, 29ne basuula bakatonda baabwe mu muliro: kubanga tebaali bakatonda, naye mulimu gwa ngalo z’abantu, miti na mayinja; kyebaava babazikiriza. 2037:20 Zab 46:10Kale nno, ayi Mukama Katonda waffe, tulokole mu mukono gwa Sennakeribu, obwakabaka bwonna obw’ensi butegeere nga ggwe wekka ggwe Mukama.”
2137:21 nny 2Awo Isaaya mutabani wa Amozi n’atumira Keezeekiya ng’ayogera nti, “Bw’ati bw’ayogera Mukama Katonda wa Isirayiri nti, Kubanga onneegayiridde ku bya Sennakeribu kabaka w’e Bwasuli, 2237:22 Yob 16:4kino kye kigambo kye mmwogeddeko:
“ ‘Omuwala wa Sayuuni embeerera
akunyooma era akusekerera.
Omuwala wa Yerusaalemi
akunyeenyeza omutwe gwe nga bw’odduka.
2337:23 a nny 4 b Is 2:11Ani gw’ovumye
gw’ovodde?
Era ani gw’oyimuyisirizzaako eddoboozi lyo n’okanulira n’amaaso?
Omutukuvu wa Isirayiri!
2437:24 Is 14:8Okozesezza abaddu bo
okuvuma Mukama n’oyogera nti,
Nyambuse n’amagaali gange amangi ku ntikko y’olusozi,
ntuuse ku njuyi ez’omunda eza Lebanooni;
era ntemedde ddala emivule gyakwo emiwanvu,
n’enfugo zaakwo ezisinga obulungi,
era natuuka ne ku lusozi lwakwo olukomererayo,
ekibira kyayo ekisinga obunene.
2537:25 Ma 11:10Waduula nti wasima enzizi
era n’onywa n’amazzi mu mawanga
era nti ebigere by’abajaasi bo
byakaliza amazzi g’omugga Kiyira mu Misiri.’
2637:26 a Bik 2:23; 4:27-28; 1Pe 2:8 b Is 10:6; 25:1 c Is 25:2“Tewawulira nga nakisalawo dda?
Nakiteekateeka dda.
Mu biro eby’edda nakiteekateeka;
era kaakano nkituukirizza,
olyoke ofuule ebibuga ebiriko bbugwe
okuba ng’entuumo y’amayinja.
2737:27 Zab 129:6Abantu baamu kyebaavanga baggwaamu amaanyi,
ne baterebuka
ne bakeŋŋentererwa
ne baba ng’essubi mu nnimiro, ng’omuddo omuto,
ng’omuddo ogumera ku nnyumba
ogwokebwa ne gufa nga tegunnakula.
2837:28 a Zab 139:1-3 b Zab 2:1“Naye mmanyi obutuuliro bwo
era mmanyi okufuluma kwo n’okuyingira kwo
n’obuswandi bw’ondaga.
2937:29 a Is 10:12 b Is 30:28; Ez 38:4 c nny 34Kubanga oneereegeddeko,
okwepanka kw’okoze nkutuuseeko.
Era kaakano ntuuse okuteeka eddobo mu nnyindo zo,37:29 Abasuli baateekanga amalobo mu nnyindo zaabo be baawambanga, ne baddira n’oluuma ne bafumita mu mimwa gy’abo be baawambanga
n’oluuma ndufumite mu mimwa gyo,
nkuzzeeyo
ng’opaala mu kkubo lye wajjiramu.”
Katonda Atuukiriza Ekisuubizo kye
30Awo Isaaya n’agamba Keezeekiya nti,
“Kano ke kabonero akanaakuweebwa:
Omwaka guno mugenda kulya eŋŋaano eyeemeza yokka.
Eno gye muliryako n’omwaka ogwokubiri.
Mu mwaka ogwokusatu
mulirya ku birime byammwe bye musize
era ne mukungula mu nnimiro zammwe ez’emizabbibu.
3137:31 Is 27:6Abantu ba Yuda abalifikkawo baliba ng’ebisimbe
emirandira gyabyo nga gikka wansi ate nga bigimuka ne bibala.
3237:32 Is 9:7Mu Yerusaalemi walibaawo abalisigalawo
ne ku Lusozi Sayuuni walibeerawo abaliwona,
kubanga Mukama Ayinzabyonna mu bumalirivu bwe,
yeewaddeyo okukikola.
33“Noolwekyo bw’ati bw’ayogera Mukama ku bikwata ku Kabaka w’e Bwasuli nti,
“Kabaka oyo taliyingira mu kibuga kino
wadde okulasayo akasaale.
Talikisemberera n’engabo
newaakubadde okutuumako ekifunvu ng’akitaayiza.
3437:34 nny 29Ekkubo lye yajjiramu lye limu ly’anaakwata okuddayo.
Tajja kuyingira mu kibuga kino,”
bw’ayogera Mukama.
3537:35 a Is 31:5; 38:6 b Is 43:25; 48:9, 11 c 2Bk 20:6“Ndirwanirira ekibuga kino
nkirokole.”
3637:36 Is 10:12Awo malayika wa Mukama n’afuluma n’atta mu lusiisira olw’Abasuli abantu emitwalo kkumi na munaana mu enkumi ttaano. Abaasigalawo bagenda okuzuukuka enkya nga wonna wajjudde mirambo. 3737:37 Lub 10:11Awo Sennakeribu kabaka w’e Bwasuli n’avaayo n’addayo n’abeera e Nineeve.
3837:38 Lub 8:4; Yer 51:27Lumu bwe yali ng’asinziza mu ssabo lya Nisuloki katonda we, Adulammereki, ne Salezeri batabani be ne bamusalira olukwe ne bamutta: ne baddukira mu nsi ya Alalati. Esaludooni mutabani we n’amusikira.
