사37:1 히스기야 예루살렘
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사37:1 하나님께 호소하는 히스기야
사 37:1 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put
on sackcloth and went into the temple of the LORD.
사 37:2 He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary,
and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son
of Amoz.
사 37:3 They told him, "This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day
of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the point
of birth and there is no strength to deliver them.
사 37:4 It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of the
field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyr ia, has sent to ridicule
the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the LORD your
God has heard. Therefor e pray for the remnant that still survives."
사37:5 이사야가 전한 하나님의 말씀
사 37:5 When King Hezekiah's officials came to Isaiah,
사 37:6 Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, 'This is what the LORD
says: Do not be afraid of what you have hea rd--those words with which
the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
사 37:7 Listen! I am going to put a spirit in him so that when he hears
a certain report, he will return to his own cou ntry, and there I will
have him cut down with the sword.'"
사37:8 랍사게의 협박 편지
사 37:8 When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had
left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighti ng against Libnah.
사 37:9 Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the Cushite
king of Egypt, was marching out to fight against h im. When he heard it,
he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:
사 37:10 "Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend
on deceive you when he says, 'Jerusalem wil l not be handed over to the
king of Assyria.'
사 37:11 Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done
to all the countries, destroying them completely. An d will you be delivered?
사 37:12 Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my forefathers
deliver them--the gods of Gozan, Haran, Reze ph and the people of Eden
who were in Tel Assar?
사 37:13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of
the city of Sepharvaim, or of Hena or Ivvah?"
사37:14 하나님께 기도하는 히스기야
사 37:14 Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read
it. Then he went up to the temple of the LORD and sp read it out before
the LORD.
사 37:15 And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD:
사 37:16 "O LORD Almighty, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim,
you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven
and earth.
사 37:17 Give ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see;
listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to i nsult the living God.
사 37:18 "It is true, O LORD, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste
all these peoples and their lands.
사 37:19 They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them,
for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.
사 37:20 Now, O LORD our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all
kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O LORD, are God."
사37:21 이사야에게 주신 하나님의
말씀
사 37:21 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: "This
is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Beca use you have prayed to
me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,
사 37:22 this is the word the LORD has spoken against him: "The Virgin
Daughter of Zion despises and mocks you. Th e Daughter of Jerusalem tosses
her head as you flee.
사 37:23 Who is it you have insulted and blasphemed? Against whom have
you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pr ide? Against the Holy
One of Israel!
사 37:24 By your messengers you have heaped insults on the Lord. And
you have said, 'With my many chariots I have ascen ded the heights of the
mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars,
the choicest of its pines. I have reached its remotest heights, the finest
of its forests.
사 37:25 I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.'
사 37:26 "Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old
I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified
cities into piles of stone.
사 37:27 Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass
sprouting on the roof, scorched before it grows up.
사 37:28 "But I know where you stay and when you come and go and how
you rage against me.
사 37:29 Because you rage against me and because your insolence has
reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose an d my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return by the way you came.
사 37:30 "This will be the sign for you, O Hezekiah: "This year you
will eat what grows by itself, and the se cond year what springs from that.
But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
사 37:31 Once more a remnant of the house of Judah will take root below
and bear fruit above.
사 37:32 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount
Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD Almi ghty will accomplish
this.
사 37:33 "Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king
of Assyria: "He will not enter this city o r shoot an arrow here. He will
not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it.
사 37:34 By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter
this city," declares the LORD.
사 37:35 "I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for
the sake of David my servant!"
사37:36 약속을 이룸
사 37:36 Then the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred
and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian ca mp. When the people got
up the next morning--there were all the dead bodies!
사 37:37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He
returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
사 37:38 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god
Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer cut him d own with the sword,
and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded
him as king. |