¹ Nầy là điều mà Chúa Giê-hô-va cho ta xem thấy: Nầy, có một giỏ trái mùa hạ.

² Bấy giờ Ngài phán rằng: A-mốt, ngươi thấy gì? Ta thưa rằng: Một giỏ trái mùa hạ. Ðức Giê-hô-va lại phán cùng ta rằng: Sự cuối cùng đã đến trên dân Y-sơ-ra-ên ta; ta sẽ không vượt qua nó nữa.

³ Trong ngày đó, những bài hát trong cung đền sẽ là tiếng khóc than, Chúa Giê-hô-va phán vậy. Sẽ có nhiều xác chết mà người ta làm thinh quăng ra mọi nơi.

⁴ Các ngươi là người nuốt những kẻ nghèo nàn, làm hao mòn những kẻ khốn cùng trong đất, hãy nghe điều nầy.

⁵ Các ngươi nói rằng: Khi nào trăng mới sẽ qua, cho chúng ta có thể bán lúa miến, và ngày sa-bát qua, đặng chúng ta mở kho lúa mì, mà bớt ê-pha, thêm nặng siếc-lơ, và dùng cân dối giả đặng phỉnh gạt;

⁶ đặng chúng ta lấy bạc mua kẻ khốn nạn, lấy một đôi dép mua kẻ nghèo nàn, và bán cho đến lép lừng của lúa mì?

⁷ Ðức Giê-hô-va lấy sự vinh hiển của Gia-cốp mà phán lời thề nầy: Ta chắc sẽ chẳng hề quên những việc làm của chúng nó!

⁸ Ðất há chẳng rúng động về việc đó, hết thảy dân cư nó há chẳng than khóc sao? Trọn cả đất sẽ dậy lên như Sông cái, nó sẽ lung lay và lún xuống như Sông của Ê-díp-tô vậy.

⁹ Chúa Giê-hô-va phán: Sẽ xảy ra trong ngày đó, ta sẽ khiến mặt trời lặn đi trong lúc giữa trưa, và khiến đất tối tăm trong giữa ban ngày.

¹⁰ Ta sẽ đổi ngày lễ các ngươi ra sầu thảm, và hết thảy bài ca tụng các ngươi ra ca thương. Ta sẽ thắt bao gai trên mọi lưng, và làm cho mọi đầu đều sói. Ta sẽ đặt đất nầy trong sự sầu thảm, như là mất con trai một, và sự cuối cùng nó sẽ như ngày đắng cay.

¹¹ Chúa Giê-hô-va phán: Nầy, những ngày sẽ đến, là khi ta khiến sự đói kém đến trong đất, chẳng phải là đói về bánh, cũng chẳng phải khát về nước, bèn là về nghe lời của Ðức Giê-hô-va.

¹² Bấy giờ chúng nó sẽ đi dông dài từ biển nầy đến biển khác, từ phương bắc đến phương đông; chạy đi đây đi đó đặng tìm lời Ðức Giê-hô-va mà không tìm được.

¹³ Trong ngày đó, những gái đồng trinh đẹp đẽ và những trai trẻ sẽ mòn mỏi vì khát.

¹⁴ Hết thảy những kẻ chỉ tội lỗi của Sa-ma-ri mà thề rằng: Hỡi Ðan, thật như thần ngươi sống! hết thảy những kẻ ấy sẽ ngã xuống, và không dậy được nữa.

¹ It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh's house.

² He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

³ They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.

⁴ It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'"

⁵ So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

⁶ Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

⁷ Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."'"

⁸ So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

⁹ He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

¹⁰ "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, 'Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem won't be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

¹¹ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?

¹² Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

¹³ Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'"

¹⁴ Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh's house, and spread it before Yahweh.

¹⁵ Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,

¹⁶ "Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

¹⁷ Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

¹⁸ Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,

¹⁹ and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

²⁰ Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only."

²¹ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

²² this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

²³ Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

²⁴ By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.

²⁵ I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."

²⁶ Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

²⁷ Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

²⁸ But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

²⁹ Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

³⁰ This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

³¹ The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

³² For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go forth, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.'

³³ Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

³⁴ By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this city,' says Yahweh.

³⁵ 'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"

³⁶ The angel of Yahweh went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

³⁷ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

³⁸ It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.