¹ I stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

² Synu člověčí, rci vývodovi Tyrskému: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Proto že se vyvyšuje srdce tvé, a říkáš: Bůh silný jsem, na stolici Boží sedím u prostřed moře, ješto jsi člověk a ne Bůh silný, ačkoli sobě přivlastňuješ srdce podobné srdci Božímu,

³ Aj hle, moudřejší jsi nad Daniele, žádná věc tajná není před tebou ukrytá;

⁴ Moudrosti svou a rozumností svou nashromáždils sobě zboží, a nahrnuls zlata a stříbra do pokladů svých;

⁵ Velikou moudrostí svou v kupectví svém rozmnožil jsi zboží svá, a tak pozdvihlo se srdce tvé zbožím tvým;

⁶ Z té příčiny takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Proto že sobě přivlastňuješ srdce podobné srdci Božímu,

⁷ Protož aj, já přivedu na tě cizozemce, nejukrutnější národy, kteříž vytrhnouce meče své na krásu moudrosti tvé, zabijí jasnost tvou.

⁸ Do jámy spustí tě, a umřeš smrtí hroznou u prostřed moře.

⁹ Budeš-liž tu ještě říkati před oblíčejem mordéře svého: Bohem jsem, poněvadž jsi člověk a ne Bůh silný, jsa v ruce toho, jenž tě mordovati bude?

¹⁰ Smrtí neobřezanců umřeš od ruky cizozemců; nebo já mluvil jsem, praví Panovník Hospodin.

¹¹ I stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

¹² Synu člověčí, vydej se v naříkání nad králem Tyrským, a rci jemu: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Ty, jenž zapečeťuješ summy, plný moudrosti a nejkrásnější,

¹³ V Eden, zahradě Boží, byl jsi, všelijaké drahé kamení přikrývalo tě, sardius, topazius, jaspis, tarsis, onychin, beryl, zafir, karbunkulus a smaragd i zlato; nástrojové bubnů tvých a píšťal tvých v tobě, hned jakžs se narodil, připraveni jsou.

¹⁴ Ty jsi cherubem od pomazání. Jakž jsem tě za ochránce představil, na hoře svaté Boží jsi byl, u prostřed kamení ohnivého ustavičně jsi chodil.

¹⁵ Byl jsi dokonalý na cestách svých, hned jakžs se narodil, až se našla nepravost při tobě.

¹⁶ Pro množství kupectví tvého u prostřed tebe plno jest bezpráví, a velmi jsi prohřešil. Pročež zahubím tě, a vyhladím z hory Boží, ó cherube ochránce, z prostřed kamenů ohnivých.

¹⁷ Pozdvihlo se srdce tvé slávou tvou, k zlému jsi užíval moudrosti své příčinou jasnosti své. Porazím tě na zemi, před oblíčej králů povrhu tě, aby se dívali na tebe.

¹⁸ Pro množství nepravostí tvých, a pro nespravedlnosti kupectví tvého poškvrnil jsi svatyně své. Protož vyvedu oheň z prostřed tebe, kterýž tě sžíře, a obrátí tě v popel na zemi před očima všech na tě hledících.

¹⁹ Všickni, kdož tě znali mezi národy, ztrnou nad tebou; k hrůze veliké budeš, a nebude tě na věky.

²⁰ I stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

²¹ Synu člověčí, obrať tvář svou proti Sidonu, a prorokuj proti němu,

²² A rci: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Aj, já proti tobě jsem, ó Sidone, a budu oslaven u prostřed tebe. I zvědí, že já jsem Hospodin, když vykonám při něm soudy, a posvěcen budu v něm.

²³ Pošli zajisté na něj mor, a krev na ulice jeho, a padati budou zranění u prostřed něho od meče na všecky strany, i zvědí, že já jsem Hospodin.

²⁴ A tak nebude více míti dům Izraelský trnu urážejícího a bodláku bodoucího ze všech okolních pohrdajících jimi, a zvědí, že já jsem Panovník Hospodin.

²⁵ Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Když shromáždím dům Izraelský z národů, mezi něž rozptýleni jsou, a posvěcen budu v nich před očima pohanů, a bydliti budou v zemi své, kterouž jsem byl dal služebníku svému Jákobovi:

²⁶ Tehdy bydliti budou v ní bezpečně, a nastavějí domů, a štípí vinice. Bydliti, pravím, budou bezpečně, když vykonám soudy, při všech zhoubcích jejich vůkol nich, i zvědí, že já jsem Hospodin Bůh jejich.

¹ Now it happened in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

² He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

³ He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done.

⁴ He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

⁵ He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [among them] that were before him.

⁶ For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.

⁷ Yahweh was with him; wherever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn't serve him.

⁸ He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

⁹ It happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

¹⁰ At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

¹¹ The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

¹² because they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.

¹³ Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

¹⁴ Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, "I have offended; return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear." The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

¹⁵ Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house.

¹⁶ At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors of the temple of Yahweh, and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

¹⁷ The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

¹⁸ When they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

¹⁹ Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What confidence is this in which you trust?

²⁰ You say (but they are but vain words), 'There is counsel and strength for war.' Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

²¹ Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.

²² But if you tell me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God;' isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?'

²³ Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

²⁴ How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

²⁵ Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, 'Go up against this land, and destroy it.'"'"

²⁶ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it. Don't speak with us in the Jews' language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

²⁷ But Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? Hasn't he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?"

²⁸ Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

²⁹ Thus says the king, 'Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.

³⁰ Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

³¹ Don't listen to Hezekiah.' For thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;

³² until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don't listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, "Yahweh will deliver us."

³³ Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

³⁴ Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

³⁵ Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'"

³⁶ But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Don't answer him."

³⁷ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.