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1 En aquellos días Ezequías cayó enfermo de muerte. El profeta Isaías, hijo de Amós, vino a decirle: «Así habla Yahveh: Da órdenes acerca de tu casa, porque vas a morir y no vivirás».	1 In those days, Hezekiah was sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, came and said to him: “Thus says the Lord God: Instruct your house, for you will die, and not live.”
2 Ezequías volvió su rostro a la pared y oró a Yahveh diciendo:	2 And he turned his face to the wall, and he prayed to the Lord, saying:
3 «¡Ah, Yahveh! Dignate recordar que yo he andado en tu presencia con fidelidad y corazón perfecto haciendo lo recto a tu ojos». Y Ezequías lloró con abundantes lágrimas.	3 “I beg you, O Lord, I beseech you, remember how I have walked before you in truth, and with a perfect heart, and how I have done what is pleasing before you.” And then Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.
4 Antes de que Isaías hubiera salido del patio central, le fue dirigida la palabra de Yahveh diciendo:	4 And before Isaiah departed from the middle part of the atrium, the word of the Lord came to him, saying:
5 «Vuelve y di a Ezequías, jefe de mi pueblo: Así habla Yahveh, Dios de tu padre David: He oído tu plegaria y he visto tus lágrimas y voy a curarte. Dentro de tres días subirás a la Casa de Yahveh.	5 “Return and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David: I have heard your prayer, and I have seen your tears. And behold, I have healed you. On the third day, you shall ascend to the temple of the Lord.
6 Voy a darte quince años más de vida y te libraré a ti y a esta ciudad de la mano del rey de Asiria, y ampararé esta ciudad por quien soy y por amor ami siervo David».	6 And I will add fifteen years to your days. Then too, I will free you and this city from the hand of the king of the Assyrians. And I will protect this city for my own sake, and for the sake of my servant David.”
7 Isaías dijo: «Tomad una masa de higos». La tomaron, la aplicaron sobre la úlcera y sanó.	7 And Isaiah said, “Bring me a mass of figs.” And when they had brought it, and they had placed it on his sore, he was healed.
8 Ezequías dijo a Isaías: «¿Cuál será la señal de que Yahveh me va a curar y dentro de tres días subiré a la Casa de Yahveh?»	8 But Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will ascend to the temple of the Lord on the third day?”
9 Isaías repondió: «Esta será para ti, de parte de Yahveh, la señal de que Yahveh hará lo que ha dicho: ¿Quieres que la sombra avance diez grados o que retroceda diez grados?»	9 And Isaiah said to him: “This will be the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do the word that he has spoken: Do you wish that the shadow may ascend ten lines, or that it may turn back for the same number of degrees?”
10 Ezequías dijo: «Fácil es para la sombra extenderse diez grados. No. Mejor que la sombra retroceda diez grados».	10 And Hezekiah said: “It is an easy for the shadow to increase for ten lines. And so I do not wish that this be done. Instead, let it turn back for ten degrees.”
11 El profeta Isaías invocó a Yahveh y Yahveh hizo retroceder la sombra diez grados sobre los grados que había recorrido en los grados de la habitación de arriba de Ajaz.	11 And so the prophet Isaiah called upon the Lord. And he led back the shadow, along the lines by which it had already descended on the sundial of Ahaz, in reverse for ten degrees.
12 En aquel tiempo Merodak Baladán, hijo de Baladán, rey de Babilonia, envió cartas y un presente a Ezequías porque había oído que Ezequías había estado enfermo.	12 At that time, Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, the king of the Babylonians, sent letters and gifts to Hezekiah. For he had heard that Hezekiah had been ill.
13 Se alegró Ezequías por ello y enseñó a los enviados su cámara del tesoro, la plata, el oro, los aromas, el aceite precioso, su arsenal y todo cuanto había en los tesoros; no hubo nada que Ezequías no les mostrara en su casa y en todo su dominio.	13 Now Hezekiah rejoiced at their arrival, and so he revealed to them the house of aromatic spices, and the gold and silver, and the various pigments and ointments, and the house of his vessels, and all that he was able to have in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominions, that Hezekiah did not show to them.
14 Fue el profeta Isaías al rey Ezequías y le dijo: «¿Qué han dicho estos hombres y de dónde han venido a ti?» Respondió Ezequías: «Han venido de un país lejano, de Babilonia».	14 Then the prophet Isaiah came to king Hezekiah, and said to him: “What did these men say? And from where did they come to you?” And Hezekiah said to him, “They came to me from Babylon, from a far away land.”
15 Dijo: «¿Qué han visto en tu casa?» Respondió Ezequías: «Han visto cuanto hay en mi casa; nada hay en los tesoros que no les haya enseñado».	15 And he responded, “What did they see in your house?” And Hezekiah said: “They saw all things whatsoever that are in my house. There is nothing in my treasuries that I did not show to them.”
16 Dijo Isaías a Ezequías: «Escucha la palabra de Yahveh:	16 And so Isaiah said to Hezekiah: “Listen to the word of the Lord.
17 Vendrán días en que todo cuanto hay en tu casa y cuanto reunieron tus padres hasta el día de hoy será llevado a Babilonia; nada quedará, dice Yahveh.	17 Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and all that your fathers have stored up even to this day, will be carried away to Babylon. Nothing at all shall remain, says the Lord.
18 Se tomará de entre tus hijos, los que han salido de ti, los que has engendrado, para que sean eunucos en el palacio del rey de Babilonia».	18 Then too, they will take from your sons, who will go forth from you, whom you will conceive. And they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
19 Respondió Ezequías a Isaías: «Es buena la palabra de Yahveh que me dices». Pues pensaba: «¿Qué me importa, si hay paz y seguridad en mis días?»	19 Hezekiah said to Isaiah: “The word of the Lord, which you have spoken, is good. Let peace and truth be in my days.”
20 El resto de los hechos de Ezequías, toda su bravura, cómo hizo la alberca y la traída de aguas a la ciudad ¿no está escrito en el libro de los Anales de los reyes de Judá?	20 Now the rest of the words of Hezekiah, and all his strength, and how he made a pool, and an aqueduct, and how he brought waters into the city, have these not been written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Judah?
21 Ezequías se acostó con sus padres y reinó en su lugar su hijo Manasés.	21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers. And Manasseh, his son, reigned in his place.