Isaiah · Literal Standard Version
Isaiah 37 Literal Standard Version
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1 And it comes to pass, at King Hezekiah’s hearing, that he tears his garments, and covers himself with sackcloth, and enters the house of YHWH,
1 ACONTECIÓ pues, que el rey Ezechîas, oído esto, rasgó sus vestidos, y cubierto de saco vino á la casa de Jehová.
2 and sends Eliakim, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and [the] elderly of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, to Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet,
2 Y envió á Eliacim mayordomo, y á Sebna escriba, y á los ancianos de los sacerdotes, cubiertos de sacos, á Isaías profeta, hijo de Amoz.
3 and they say to him, “Thus said Hezekiah: A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising, [is] this day; for sons have come to the birth, and there is not power to bear.
3 Los cuales le dijeron: Ezechîas dice así: Día de angustia, de reprensión y de blasfemia, es este día: porque los hijos han llegado hasta la rotura, y no hay fuerza en la que pare.
4 It may be your God YHWH hears the words of Rabshakeh with which the king of Asshur his lord has sent him to reproach the living God, and has decided concerning the words that your God YHWH has heard, and you have lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.”
4 Quizá oirá Jehová tu Dios las palabras de Rabsaces, al cual envió el rey de Asiria su señor á blasfemar al Dios vivo, y á reprender con las palabras que oyó Jehová tu Dios: alza pues oración tú por las reliquias que aun han quedado.
5 And the servants of King Hezekiah come to Isaiah,
5 Vinieron pues los siervos de Ezechîas á Isaías.
6 and Isaiah says to them, “Thus you say to your lord, Thus said YHWH: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me.
6 Y díjoles Isaías: Diréis así á vuestro señor: Así dice Jehová: No temas por las palabras que has oído, con las cuales me han blasfemado los siervos del rey de Asiria.
7 Behold, I am giving a spirit in him, and he has heard a report, and has turned back to his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.”
7 He aquí que yo doy en él un espíritu, y oirá un rumor, y volveráse á su tierra: y yo haré que en su tierra caiga á cuchillo.
8 And Rabshakeh turns back and finds the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he has heard that he has journeyed from Lachish.
8 Vuelto pues Rabsaces, halló al rey de Asiria que batía á Libna; porque ya había oído que se había apartado de Lachîs.
9 And he hears concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, “He has come out to fight with you”; and he hears, and sends messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
9 Mas oyendo decir de Tirhakah rey de Etiopía: He aquí que ha salido para hacerte guerra: en oyéndolo, envió mensajeros á Ezechîas, diciendo:
10 “Thus you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God in whom you are trusting lift you up, saying, Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.
10 Diréis así á Ezechîas rey de Judá: No te engañe tu Dios en quien tú confías, diciendo: Jerusalem no será entregada en mano del rey de Asiria.
11 Behold, you have heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands—to devote them—and you are delivered!
11 He aquí que tú oiste lo que hicieron los reyes de Asiria á todas las tierras, que las destruyeron; ¿y escaparás tú?
12 Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed—Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who [are] in Telassar?
12 ¿Libraron los dioses de las gentes á los que destruyeron mis antepasados, á Gozán, y Harán, Rezeph, y á los hijos de Edén que moraban en Thelasar?
13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?”
13 ¿Dónde está el rey de Amath, y el rey de Arphad, el rey de la ciudad de Sepharvaim, de Henah, y de Hivah?
14 And Hezekiah takes the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and reads them, and Hezekiah goes up to the house of YHWH, and Hezekiah spreads it before YHWH.
14 Y tomó Ezechîas las cartas de mano de los mensajeros, y leyólas; y subió á la casa de Jehová, y las extendió delante de Jehová.
15 And Hezekiah prays to YHWH, saying,
15 Entonces Ezechîas oró á Jehová, diciendo:
16 “YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubim, You [are] God Himself—You alone—to all kingdoms of the earth, You have made the heavens and the earth.
16 Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel, que moras entre los querubines, sólo tú eres Dios sobre todos los reinos de la tierra; tú hiciste los cielos y la tierra.
17 Incline, O YHWH, Your ear, and hear; open, O YHWH, Your eyes and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib that he has sent to reproach the living God.
17 Inclina, oh Jehová, tu oído, y oye; abre, oh Jehová, tus ojos, y mira: y oye todas las palabras de Sennachêrib, el cual ha enviado á blasfemar al Dios viviente.
18 Truly, O YHWH, kings of Asshur have laid waste all the lands and their land,
18 Ciertamente, oh Jehová, los reyes de Asiria destruyeron todas las tierras y sus comarcas,
19 so as to put their gods into fire—for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone—and they destroy them.
19 Y entregaron los dioses de ellos al fuego: porque no eran dioses, sino obra de manos de hombre, leño y piedra: por eso los deshicieron.
20 And now, our God YHWH, save us from his hand, and all kingdoms of the earth know that You [are] YHWH, You alone.”
20 Ahora pues, Jehová Dios nuestro, líbranos de su mano, para que todos los reinos de la tierra conozcan que sólo tú eres Jehová.
21 And Isaiah son of Amoz sends to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: That which you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur—
21 Entonces Isaías hijo de Amoz, envió á decir á Ezechîas: Jehová Dios de Israel dice así: Acerca de lo que me rogaste sobre Sennachêrib rey de Asiria,
22 this [is] the word that YHWH spoke concerning him: Trampled on you, laughed at you, || Has the virgin daughter of Zion, || The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken the head behind you.
22 Esto es lo que Jehová habló de él: Hate menospreciado, y ha hecho escarnio de ti la virgen hija de Sión: meneó su cabeza á tus espaldas la hija de Jerusalem.
23 Whom have you reproached and reviled? And against whom—lifted up the voice? Indeed, you lift up your eyes on high || Against the Holy One of Israel.
23 ¿A quién injuriaste y á quién blasfemaste? ¿contra quién has alzado tu voz, y levantado tus ojos en alto? Contra el Santo de Israel.
24 By the hand of your servants || You have reviled the Lord, and say: In the multitude of my chariots || I have come up to a high place of hills, || The sides of Lebanon, || And I cut down the height of its cedars, || The choice of its firs, || And I enter the high place of its extremity, || The forest of its Carmel.
24 Por mano de tus siervos denostaste al Señor, y dijiste: Yo con la multitud de mis carros subiré á las alturas de los montes, á las laderas del Líbano; cortaré sus altos cedros, sus hayas escogidas; vendré después á lo alto de su límite, al monte de su Carmel.
25 I have dug and drunk waters, || And I dry up with the sole of my steps || All floods of a bulwark.
25 Yo cavé, y bebí las aguas; y con las pisadas de mis pies secaré todos los ríos de lugares atrincherados.
26 Have you not heard from afar [that] I did it, || From days of old—that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, || And it is to make desolate, || Ruinous heaps—fortified cities,
26 ¿No has oído decir que de mucho tiempo ha yo lo hice, que de días antiguos lo he formado? Helo hecho venir ahora, y será para destrucción de ciudades fuertes en montones de ruinas.
27 And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, || They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, || And the greenness of the tender grass, || Grass of the roofs, || And blasted grain, before it has risen up.
27 Y sus moradores, cortos de manos, quebrantados y confusos, serán como grama del campo y hortaliza verde, como hierba de los tejados, que antes de sazón se seca.
28 And your sitting down, and your going out, || And your coming in, I have known, || And your anger toward Me.
28 Conocido he tu estado, tu salida y tu entrada, y tu furor contra mí.
29 Because of your anger toward Me, || And your noise—it came up into My ears, || I have put My hook in your nose, || And My bridle in your lips, || And I have caused you to turn back || In the way in which you came.
29 Porque contra mí te airaste, y tu estruendo ha subido á mis oídos: pondré pues mi anzuelo en tu nariz, y mi freno en tus labios, y haréte tornar por el camino por donde viniste.
30 And this [is] the sign to you, || Self-sown grain [is] food of the year, || And in the second year the spontaneous growth, || And in the third year, sow and reap, || And plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
30 Y esto te será por señal: Comerás este año lo que nace de suyo, y el año segundo lo que nace de suyo: y el año tercero sembraréis y segaréis, y plantaréis viñas, y comeréis su fruto.
31 And it has continued—The escaped of the house of Judah that has been left—To take root beneath, || And it has made fruit upward.
31 Y el residuo de la casa de Judá que hubiere escapado, tornará á echar raíz abajo, y hará fruto arriba.
32 For a remnant goes forth from Jerusalem, || And an escape from Mount Zion, || The zeal of YHWH of Hosts does this.
32 Porque de Jerusalem saldrán reliquias, y del monte de Sión salvamento: el celo de Jehová de los ejércitos hará esto.
33 Therefore, thus said YHWH, || Concerning the king of Asshur: He does not come into this city, || Nor does he shoot an arrow there, || Nor does he come before it [with] shield, || Nor does he pour out a mound against it.
33 Por tanto, así dice Jehová acerca del rey de Asiria: No entrará en esta ciudad, ni echará saeta en ella: no vendrá delante de ella escudo, ni será echado contra ella baluarte.
34 In the way that he came, in it he turns back, || And to this city he does not come in, || A declaration of YHWH,
34 Por el camino que vino se tornará, y no entrará en esta ciudad, dice Jehová:
35 And I have covered over this city, || To save it, for My own sake, || And for the sake of My servant David.”
35 Pues yo ampararé á esta ciudad para salvarla por amor de mí, y por amor de David mi siervo.
36 And a messenger of YHWH goes out, and strikes in the camp of Asshur one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and [men] rise early in the morning, and behold, all of them [are] dead corpses.
36 Y salió el ángel de Jehová, é hirió ciento ochenta y cinco mil en el campo de los Asirios: y cuando se levantaron por la mañana, he aquí que todo era cuerpos de muertos.
37 And he journeys, and goes, and Sennacherib king of Asshur turns back, and dwells in Nineveh.
37 Entonces Sennachêrib rey de Asiria partiéndose se fué, y volvióse, é hizo su morada en Nínive.
38 And it comes to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of his god Nisroch, and his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer have struck him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and his son Esar-Haddon reigns in his stead.
38 Y acaeció, que estando orando en el templo de Nisroch su dios, Adremelech y Sarezer, sus hijos, le hirieron á cuchillo, y huyeron á la tierra de Ararat; y reinó en su lugar Esar-hadón su hijo.
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Adrammelech
A son of Sennacherib who with his brother Sharezer put their father to the sword in the temple of Nisroch and escaped to the land of Ararat.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38
Hezekiah
A great reformer who trusted God and saw Jerusalem delivered from Assyria.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 18-20; 2 Chron. 29-32; Isa. 36-39; Matt. 1:9-10
Tirhakah
King of Cush about whom Sennacherib was warned that he had set out to fight him.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 19:9; Isaiah 37:9
Cross references (37)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Kings 19:1–37; 2 Kings 22:11; Isaiah 36:22–37:38; Ezra 9:5; Job 1:20–21
- 2 Isaiah 1:1; Joel 1:13; 2 Chronicles 20:20; 2 Kings 19:2; 2 Kings 18:18
- 3 Isaiah 66:9; Hosea 13:13; 2 Kings 19:3; Psalm 50:15; Isaiah 26:17–18
- 4 Isaiah 36:20; Isaiah 1:9; Psalm 106:23; Isaiah 10:22; Isaiah 8:7–8
- 6 Isaiah 7:4; Isaiah 35:4; Mark 5:36; 2 Chronicles 20:15–20; Isaiah 41:10–14
- 7 2 Chronicles 32:21; Isaiah 31:8–9; Job 15:21; Isaiah 17:13–14; 2 Kings 7:6
- 8 Joshua 10:29; Joshua 21:13; 2 Kings 8:22; Joshua 10:31–34; Joshua 15:39
- 9 Isaiah 18:1; 1 Samuel 23:27–28; Isaiah 20:5; Isaiah 37:7
- 10 Isaiah 36:15; 2 Kings 18:5; Psalm 22:8; 2 Chronicles 32:7–8; Matthew 27:43
- 11 Isaiah 36:18–20; 2 Kings 17:4–6; Isaiah 10:7–14; Isaiah 37:18–19; Isaiah 14:17
- 12 Genesis 11:31; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11; Acts 7:2; 2 Kings 19:12
- 13 Jeremiah 49:23; Isaiah 10:9; 2 Kings 18:34; 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 17:30–31
- 14 Psalm 123:1–4; 2 Kings 19:14; Psalm 62:1–3; Isaiah 37:1; Psalm 74:10
- 15 2 Chronicles 14:11; Daniel 9:3–4; 1 Samuel 7:8–9; 2 Chronicles 20:6–12; 2 Kings 19:15–19
- 16 Psalm 99:1; Exodus 25:22; Psalm 86:10; Isaiah 44:24; 1 Samuel 4:4
- 17 2 Chronicles 6:40; Psalm 17:6; 1 Peter 3:12; Psalm 74:22; Psalm 10:14–15
- 18 Nahum 2:11–12; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 17:24; 1 Chronicles 5:26
- 19 Psalm 115:4–8; Isaiah 40:19–21; Isaiah 10:9–11; Hosea 8:6; Exodus 32:20
- 20 Psalm 46:10; 1 Kings 18:36–37; Psalm 83:17–18; Isaiah 42:8; Malachi 1:11
- 21 Isaiah 65:24; Psalm 91:15; Isaiah 38:3–6; 2 Kings 19:20–21; Daniel 9:20–23
- 22 Job 16:4; Isaiah 1:8; Lamentations 2:13; Psalm 9:14; Zechariah 2:10
- 23 Ezekiel 39:7; Daniel 5:20–23; Daniel 7:25; Ezekiel 28:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:4
- 24 Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 10:18; Isaiah 36:9; Daniel 4:30; Daniel 4:8–14
- 25 1 Kings 20:10; Deuteronomy 11:10; Isaiah 36:12; 2 Kings 19:23–24
- 26 Acts 4:27–28; Acts 2:23; Isaiah 46:10–11; 1 Peter 2:8; Isaiah 10:15
- 27 Psalm 129:6; Psalm 127:1–2; Jeremiah 37:10; Psalm 90:5–6; Isaiah 19:16
- 28 Revelation 2:13; Psalm 139:1–11; Jeremiah 23:23–24; Proverbs 5:21; Proverbs 15:3
- 29 Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 37:34; Ezekiel 38:4; Isaiah 30:28; Ezekiel 29:4
- 30 2 Kings 19:29; Leviticus 25:4–5; Isaiah 7:14; 2 Kings 20:9; 1 Kings 13:3–5
- 31 Isaiah 27:6; 2 Kings 19:30–31; Psalm 80:9; Isaiah 1:9; Romans 11:5
- 32 Isaiah 9:7; 2 Kings 19:31; Joel 2:18; Zechariah 1:14; Isaiah 59:17
- 33 Isaiah 8:7–10; Ezekiel 21:22; Isaiah 10:32–34; 2 Kings 19:32–35; Isaiah 33:20
- 34 Isaiah 37:29; Proverbs 21:30
- 35 2 Kings 20:6; Isaiah 31:5; Isaiah 38:6; Isaiah 43:25; Jeremiah 23:5–6
- 36 Isaiah 10:12; 2 Kings 19:35; 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3; Isaiah 31:8; 2 Samuel 24:16
- 37 Jonah 3:3; Jonah 1:2; Nahum 1:1; Jonah 4:11; Genesis 10:11–12
- 38 Genesis 8:4; Jeremiah 51:27; Ezra 4:2; 2 Chronicles 32:21; 2 Kings 19:36–37
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
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"I will defend this city for my servant David's sake." And besides, on account of His favor towards him, He suffered not Solomon to fall from the kingdom, great as the sin was which he had committed.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)