2 Reyes 19

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1 Cuando lo oyó el rey Ezequías desgarró sus vestidos, se cubrió de sayal y se fue a la Casa de Yahveh.	1 And when king Hezekiah had heard this, he tore his garments, and he covered himself with sackcloth, and he entered the house of the Lord.
2 Envió a Elyaquim, mayordomo, a Sebná, secretario, y a los sacerdotes ancianos cubiertos de sayal, donde el profeta Isaías, hijo de Amós.	2 And he sent Eliakim, the first ruler of the house, and Shebnah, the scribe, and the elders from the priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz.
3 Ellos le dijeron: «Así habla Ezequías: Este día es día de angustia, de castigo y de vergüenza. Los hijos están para salir del seno, pero no hay fuerza para dar a luz.	3 And they said to him: “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy. The sons are ready to be born, but the woman in labor does not have the strength.
4 ¿No habrá oído Yahveh tu Dios, todas las palabras del copero mayor al que ha enviado el rey de Asiria su señor, para insultar al Dios vivo? ¿No castigará Yahveh tu Dios, las palabras que ha oído? ¡Dirige una plegaria en favor del resto que aún queda!»	4 Perhaps the Lord, your God, may hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of the Assyrians, his lord, sent so that he would reproach the living God, and rebuke with words, which the Lord, your God, has heard. And so, offer a prayer on behalf of the remnant that has been found.”
5 Cuando los siervos del rey Ezequías llegaron donde Isaías,	5 And the servants of king Hezekiah went to Isaiah.
6 éste les dijo: «Así diréis a vuestro señor: Esto dice Yahveh: No tengas miedo por las palabras que has oído, con las que me insultaron los criados del rey de Asiria.	6 And Isaiah said to them: “So shall you say to your lord. Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid before the face of the words that you have heard, by which the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.
7 Voy a poner en él un espíritu, oirá una noticia y se volverá a su tierra, y en su tierra yo le haré caer a espada».	7 Behold, I will send a spirit to him, and he will hear a report, and he will return to his own land. And I will bring him down by the sword in his own land.”
8 El copero mayor se volvió y encontró al rey de Asiria atacando a Libná, pues había oído que había partido de Lakís,	8 Then Rabshakeh returned, and he found the king of the Assyrians fighting against Libnah. For he had heard that he had withdrawn from Lachish.
9 porque había recibido esta noticia acerca de Tirhacá, rey de Kus: «Mira que ha salido a guerrear contra ti». Volvió a enviar mensajeros para decir a Ezequías:	9 And when he had heard from Tirhakah, the king of Ethiopia, saying, “Behold, he has gone out so that he may fight against you,” and when he went forth against him, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying:
10 «Así hablaréis a Ezequías, rey de Judá: No te engañe tu Dios en el que confías pensando: “No será entregada Jerusalén en manos del rey de Asiria”.	10 “So shall you say to Hezekiah, the king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom you trust, lead you astray. And you should not say, ‘Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.’
11 Bien has oído lo que los reyes de Asiria han hecho a todos los países, entregándolos al anatema, ¡y tú te vas a librar!	11 For you yourself have heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done to all the lands, the manner in which they have laid waste to them. Therefore, how would you alone be able to be freed?
12 ¿Acaso los dioses de las naciones salvaron a aquellos que mis padres aniquilaron, a Gozán, a Jarán, a Résef, a los edenitas que estaban en Tel Basar?	12 Have the gods of the nations freed any of those whom my fathers have destroyed, such as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who were at Telassar?
13 ¿Dónde está el rey de Jamat, el rey de Arpad, el rey de Laír, de Sefarváyim, de Hená y de Ivvá?».	13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena, and of Avva?”
14 Ezequías tomó la carta de manos de los mensajeros y la leyó. Luego subió a la Casa de Yahveh y Ezequías la desenrolló ante Yahveh.	14 And so, when Hezekiah had received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and had read it, he ascended to the house of the Lord, and he spread it out before the Lord.
15 Hizo Ezequías esta plegaria ante Yahveh: «Yahveh, Dios de Israel, que estás sobre los Querubines, tú sólo eres Dios en todos los reinos de la tierra, tú el que has hecho los cielos y la tierra.	15 And he prayed in his sight, saying: “O Lord, God of Israel, who sits upon the cherubim, you alone are God, over all the kings of the earth. You made heaven and earth.
16 ¡Tiende, Yahveh, tu oído y escucha; abre, Yahveh, tus ojos y mira! Oye las palabras con que Senaquerib ha enviado a insultar al Dios vivo.	16 Incline your ear, and listen. Open your eyes, O Lord, and see. And hear all the words of Sennacherib, who sent so that he might reproach the living God before us.
17 Es verdad, Yahveh, que los reyes de Asiria han exterminado las naciones	17 Truly, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have devastated all peoples and lands.
18 y han entregado sus dioses al fuego, porque ellos no son dioses, sino hechuras de mano de hombre, de madera y de piedra, y por eso han sido aniquilados.	18 And they have cast their gods into the fire. For they were not gods, but instead were the works of men’s hands, out of wood and stone. And so they destroyed them.
19 Ahora pues, Yahveh, Dios nuestro, sálvanos de su mano, y sabrán todos los reinos de la tierra que sólo tú eres Dios, Yahveh».	19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, bring us salvation from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord God.”
20 Isaías, hijo de Amós, envió a decir a Ezequías: «Así dice Yahveh, Dios de Israel: He escuchado tu plegaria acerca de Senaquerib, rey de Asiria.	20 Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I have heard what you beseeched from me, concerning Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians.
21 Esta es la palabra que Yahveh pronuncia contra él: Ella te desprecia, ella te hace burla, la virgen hija de Sión. Mueve la cabeza a tus espaldas, la hija de Jerusalén.	21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken about him: The virgin daughter of Zion has spurned and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind your back.
22 ¿A quién has insultado y blasfemado? ¿Contra quién has alzado tu voz y levantas tus ojos altaneros? ¡Contra el Santo de Israel!	22 Whom have you reproached, and whom have you blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!
23 Por tus mensajeros insultas a Adonay y dices: Con mis muchos carros subo a los cumbres de los montes a las laderas del Líbano, derribo la altura de sus cedros, la flor de sus cipreses, alcanzo el postrer de sus refugios, su jardín del bosque.	23 By the hand of your servants, you have reproach the Lord, and you have said: ‘By the multitude of my chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the summit of Lebanon. And I have cut down its sublime cedars, and its elect spruce trees. And I have entered even to its limits. And its forest of Carmel,
24 Yo he cavado y bebido en extranjeras aguas. Secaré bajo la planta de mis pies. todos los Nilos del Egipto.	24 I have cut down. And I drank foreign waters, and I dried up all the enclosed waters with the steps of my feet.’
25 ¿Lo oyes bien? Desde antiguo lo tengo preparado; desde viejos días lo había planeado. Ahora lo ejecuto. Tú convertirás en cúmulos de ruinas las fuertes ciudades	25 But have you not heard what I have done from the beginning? From the days of antiquity, I have formed it, and now I have brought it to be. And fortified cities of fighting men will become piles of ruins.
26 Sus habitantes, de débiles manos, confusos y aterrados, son plata del campo, verdor de hierba, hierba de tejados, pasto quemado por el viento de Oriente.	26 And whoever may settle in these, they have trembled, with a weak hand, and they have been confounded. They have become like the hay of the field, and like weeds sprouting on the rooftops, which dry up before they reached maturity.
27 Si te alzas o te sientas, si sales o entras, estoy presente y lo sé.	27 Your habitation, and your exit, and your entrance, and your way, I knew beforehand, along with your fury against me.
28 Pues que te alzas airado contra mí y tu arrogancia ha subido a mis oídos, voy a poner mi anillo en tus narices, mi brida en tu boca, y voy a devolverte por la ruta por la que has venido.	28 You have been maddened against me, and your arrogance has ascended to my ears. And so, I will place a ring in your nose, and a bit between your lips. And I will lead you back along the way by which you came.
29 La señal será ésta: Este año se comerá lo que rebrote, lo que nazca de sí al año siguiente. Al año tercero sembrad y segad, plantad las viñas y comed su fruto.	29 But as for you, Hezekiah, this shall be a sign: Eat this year whatever you will find, and in the second year, whatever may spring up of itself. But in the third year, sow and reap; plant vineyards, and eat from their fruit.
30 El resto que se salve de la casa de Judá echará raíces por debajo y frutos en lo alto.	30 And whatever will have been left behind, from the house of Judah, shall send a root downward, and shall bear fruit upward.
31 Pues saldrá un Resto de Jerusalén, y supervivientes del monte Sión; el celo de Yahveh Sebaot lo hará.	31 Indeed, a remnant shall go forth from Jerusalem, and what may be saved shall go forth from mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall accomplish this.
32 Por eso, así dice Yahveh al rey de Asiria: No entrará en esta ciudad. No lanzará flechas en ella. No le opondrá escudo, ni alzará en contra de ella empalizada.	32 For this reason, thus says the Lord about the king of the Assyrians: He shall not enter into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor overtake it with the shield, nor encircle it with fortifications.
33 Volverá por la ruta que ha traído. No entrará en esta ciudad. Palabra de Yahveh.	33 By the way that he came, so shall he return. And he shall not enter this city, says the Lord.
34 Protegeré a esta ciudad para salvarla, por quien soy y por mi siervo David».	34 And I will protect this city, and I will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of my servant David.”
35 Aquella misma noche salió el Angel de Yahveh e hirió en el campamento asirio a 185.000 hombres; a la hora de despertarse, por la mañana, no había más que cadáveres.	35 And so it happened that, in the same night, an Angel of the Lord went and struck down, in the camp of the Assyrians, one hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when he had risen up, at first light, he saw all the bodies of the dead. And withdrawing, he went away.
36 Senaquerib, rey de Asiria, partió y, volviéndose, se quedó en Nínive.	36 And Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, returned and dwelled in Nineveh.
37 Y sucedió que estando él postrado en el templo de su dios Nisrok, sus hijos Adrammélek y Saréser le mataron a espada y se pusieron a salvo en el país de Ararat. Su hijo Asarjaddón reinó en su lugar.	37 And while he was worshipping in the temple of his god, Nisroch, his sons, Adram-melech and Sharezer, struck him with the sword. And they fled into the land of the Armenians. And Esarhaddon, his son, reigned in his place.