Isaías 36
Portuguese New Testament: Easy-to-Read Version
O rei da Assíria invade Judá
36 Durante o ano catorze do reinado de Ezequias, Senaqueribe, rei da Assíria, saiu para atacar todas as cidades fortificadas de Judá e as conquistou. 2 Então o rei da Assíria enviou o seu comandante com um grande exército para atacar o rei Ezequias em Jerusalém. Saindo de Láquis foram a Jerusalém e tomaram as suas posições junto ao aqueduto, perto do açude superior que está a caminho do Campo do Lavandeiro. 3 Então Eliaquim, filho de Hilquias, que era o administrador do palácio real, foi ao seu encontro. Ele foi acompanhado do escrivão Sebna e do secretário Joá, filho de Asafe. 4 O comandante-chefe lhes disse:
—Digam a Ezequias que isto é o que diz o grande rei, o rei da Assíria:
“Quem vai ajudar você? Em quem você confia? 5 Eu digo para você não confiar na estratégia ou na força militar, porque são inúteis. Elas não são nada, mas só palavras vãs. Então em quem você confia para se revoltar contra mim? 6 Olhe, você está agora confiando nessa vara lascada que é o Egito. Se você se apoiar nela, ferirá e perfurará sua mão. Isso é o que o faraó, rei do Egito, faz com todos os que se apoiam nele. 7 Talvez você diga: ‘Confiamos no SENHOR, nosso Deus’. Mas foi Ezequias que destruiu os seus altares e lugares altos, e que disse a Judá e a Jerusalém: ‘Só devem adorar no altar de Jerusalém’.
8 “Agora, faça um tratado com o meu senhor, o rei da Assíria. Eu lhe darei 2.000 cavalos se você puder arranjar cavaleiros suficientes para montá-los. 9 Como você pode rejeitar a minha oferta, mesmo que como capitão eu seja um dos servos menos importantes do meu senhor? Prefere ficar confiando no rei do Egito para que lhe dê carros de combate e cavalos? 10 Você pensa que vim destruir este país sem a ajuda do SENHOR? Não! Foi o SENHOR quem me disse para atacar e destruir este país”.
11 Então Eliaquim, Sebna e Joá disseram ao comandante assírio:
—Por favor, fale em idioma aramaico. Nós, os seus servos, entendemos esse idioma. Não nos fale em hebraico, o idioma de Judá, porque o povo que está sobre a muralha nos está escutando.
12 Mas o comandante-chefe disse:
—O meu senhor me mandou falar com todos, além do seu senhor e de vocês. Eu devo também falar com as pessoas que estão sentadas na muralha. Quando nós cercarmos a sua cidade, eles também irão sofrer. Como você, eles também ficarão famintos. Todos vocês irão comer as suas próprias fezes e beber a sua própria urina!
13 Depois ele ficou de pé e gritou forte em hebraico, o idioma de Judá:
“Ouçam o que diz o grande rei, o rei da Assíria! 14 Isto é o que ele diz: ‘Não se deixem enganar por Ezequias, porque ele não poderá salvá-los’. 15 Não deixem que Ezequias os leve a confiar no SENHOR, dizendo: ‘Certamente o SENHOR nos livrará! Ele não deixará que esta cidade caia nas mãos do rei da Assíria’.
16 “Não prestem atenção a Ezequias, porque isto é o que diz o rei da Assíria: ‘Façam as pazes comigo e rendam-se. Assim permitirei que cada um de vocês coma da sua própria videira e da sua própria figueira, e beba água do seu próprio poço. 17 Ficarão assim até que eu venha e os leve para um país como o de vocês, um país de trigo e de vinho, terra de pão e de vinhas’.
18 “Tenham cuidado, não se deixem convencer por Ezequias quando ele falar: ‘O SENHOR nos salvará’. Por acaso os deuses dos outros povos foram capazes de salvá-los do poder do rei da Assíria? 19 Onde estão os deuses de Hamate e de Arpade? Onde estão os deuses de Sefarvaim? Algum desses deuses conseguiu livrar a cidade de Samaria de cair nas minhas mãos? 20 Qual deus conseguiu impedir que essas nações caíssem nas minhas mãos? Como pois poderá o SENHOR livrar Jerusalém de mim?”
21 Mas o povo ficou calado. Eles não responderam ao comandante, porque o rei Ezequias tinha dado ordem para não responderem nada.
22 Então Eliaquim, administrador do palácio real e filho de Hilquias; o escrivão Sebna; e o secretário Joá, filho de Asafe, rasgaram as suas roupas e foram contar a Ezequias tudo o que o comandante tinha falado.
Isaiah 36
Common English Bible
Sennacherib’s message
36 Assyria’s King Sennacherib marched against all of Judah’s fortified cities and captured them in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah. 2 Assyria’s king sent his field commander from Lachish, together with a large army, to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. He stood at the water channel of the Upper Pool, which is on the road to the field where clothes are washed. 3 Hilkiah’s son Eliakim, who was the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder went out to them.
4 Then the field commander said to them, “Say to Hezekiah: Assyria’s Great King says this: Why do you feel so confident? 5 Do you think that empty words are the same as good strategy and the strength to fight? Who are you trusting that you now rebel against me? 6 It appears that you are trusting in a staff—Egypt—that’s nothing but a broken reed! It will stab the hand of anyone who leans on it! That’s all that Pharaoh, Egypt’s king, is to anyone who trusts in him. 7 Now suppose you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God.’ Isn’t he the one whose shrines and altars Hezekiah removed, telling Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship only at this altar’?
8 “So now, make a wager with my master, Assyria’s king. I’ll give you two thousand horses if you can supply the riders! 9 How will you drive back even the least important official among my master’s servants when you are relying on Egypt for chariots and riders? 10 What’s more, do you think I’ve marched against this place to destroy it without the Lord’s support? It was the Lord who told me, ‘March against this land and destroy it!’”
11 Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, because we understand it. Don’t speak with us in Hebrew,[a] because the people on the wall will hear it.”
12 The field commander said to them, “Did my master send me to speak these words just to you and your master and not also to the men on the wall? They are the ones who will have to eat their dung and drink their urine along with you.” 13 Then the field commander stood up and shouted in Hebrew at the top of his voice: “Listen to the message of the great king, Assyria’s king. 14 The king says this: Don’t let Hezekiah lie to you. He won’t be able to rescue you. 15 Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to trust the Lord by saying, ‘The Lord will certainly rescue us. This city won’t be handed over to Assyria’s king.’
16 “Don’t listen to Hezekiah, because this is what Assyria’s king says: Surrender to me and come out. Then each of you will eat from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own well 17 until I come to take you to a land just like your land. It will be a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 Don’t let Hezekiah fool you by saying, ‘The Lord will rescue us.’ Did any of the other gods of the nations save their lands from the power of Assyria’s king? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Did they rescue Samaria from my power? 20 Which one of the gods from those countries has rescued their land from my power? Will the Lord save Jerusalem from my power?”
21 But they kept quiet and didn’t answer him with a single word, because King Hezekiah’s command was, “Don’t answer him!” 22 Hilkiah’s son Eliakim, who was the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with ripped clothes. They told him what the field commander had said.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 36:11 MT Judean, so also 36:13
Isaiah 36
Easy-to-Read Version
The Assyrians Invade Judah
36 During Hezekiah’s 14th year as king, Sennacherib king of Assyria went to fight against all the strong cities of Judah. Sennacherib defeated those cities. 2 He sent his commander with a large army to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem. The commander and his army left Lachish and went to Jerusalem. They stopped near the aqueduct[a] by the Upper Pool,[b] on the street that leads up to Laundryman’s Field.
3 Three men from Jerusalem went out to talk with the commander. These men were Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Joah son of Asaph, and Shebna. Eliakim was the palace manager, Joah was the record keeper, and Shebna was the royal secretary.
4 The commander told them, “Tell Hezekiah this is what the great king, the king of Assyria says:
“‘What are you trusting in to help you? 5 I tell you, if you are trusting in power and great battle plans, that is useless. Those are nothing but empty words. Now I ask you, who do you trust so much that you are willing to rebel against me? 6 Are you depending on Egypt to help you? Egypt is like a broken walking stick. If you lean on it for support, it will only stab you and hurt you. Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, cannot be trusted by anyone who depends on him for help.
7 “‘So maybe you will say, “We trust the Lord our God to help us.” But Hezekiah destroyed the altars and high places where people worshiped your God, right? Hezekiah told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship only at this one altar here in Jerusalem.”
8 “‘If you still want to fight, my master, the king of Assyria, will make this agreement with you. I promise that I will give you 2000 horses if you can find enough men to ride them into battle. 9 But even then, you couldn’t beat even one of my master’s lowest ranking officers. So why do you still depend on Egypt’s chariots and horse soldiers?
10 “‘Now, do you think I came to this country to destroy it without the Lord’s help. No, it was the Lord who said to me, “Go up against this country and destroy it!”’”
11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the commander, “Please, speak to us in Hebrew.[c] We understand that language. Don’t speak to us in the language of Judah. If you use our language, the people on the city walls will understand you.”
12 But the commander said, “My master sent me to speak to everyone, not just to you and your master. I must also speak to those people sitting there on the wall. When we surround your city, they will suffer too. Like you, they will become so hungry they will eat their own waste and drink their own urine!”
13 Then the commander, shouting loudly in Hebrew,[d] gave this warning to them all:
Hear this message from the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 This is what the king says: Don’t let Hezekiah fool you! He cannot save you from my power. 15 Don’t listen to him when he tells you to trust in the Lord. Don’t believe him when he says, “The Lord will save us. He will not let the king of Assyria defeat the city.”
16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah! This is what the king of Assyria says: Come out here and show me that you want peace. Then you will all be free to have grapes from your own vines, figs from your own trees, and water from your own well. 17 After some time, I will come and take you to a land like your own. In that new land, you will have plenty of grain for making bread and vineyards for producing wine.
18 Don’t believe Hezekiah when he tells you, “The Lord will save us.” He is wrong. Did any of the gods of other nations save their land from the king of Assyria? 19 When I destroyed the cities of Hamath and Arpad, where were their gods? What about the gods of Sepharvaim? Were any gods able to save Samaria from my power? 20 None of the gods of these other places were able to save their land from me! So why do you think the Lord can save Jerusalem from me?
21 But the people were silent. They did not say a word to the commander, because King Hezekiah had commanded them, “Don’t say anything to him.”
22 Then the palace manager (Eliakim son of Hilkiah), the royal secretary (Shebna), and the record keeper (Joah son of Asaph) went to Hezekiah. Their clothes were torn to show they were upset. They told Hezekiah everything the Assyrian commander had said.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 36:2 aqueduct A ditch or pipe that carries water from one place to another. Here, this is the Shiloah, a channel that carried water from Gihon Spring to the Old Pool and the Pool of Siloam.
- Isaiah 36:2 Upper Pool The Pool of Siloam at the southern tip of the City of David (Jerusalem), just above the older pool now called Birket al Hamrah.
- Isaiah 36:11 Hebrew Literally, “Judean,” the language of Judah and Israel.
- Isaiah 36:13 Hebrew Literally, “Judean,” the language of Judah and Israel.
Isaiah 36
King James Version
36 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
10 And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? the Lord said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the Lord will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
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