1 Now it happened in the fourteenth shanah (year) of malak (king) Chazaqayah (Hezekiah), that Sanacharayab (Sennacherib) malak (king) of Ashawar (Assyria) attacked all of the batzar (fortified) iray (cities) of Yahawadah (Yahawadah / Judah), and captured them.
2 The malak (king) of Ashawar (Assyria) shalach (send) Rabashaqah (Rabshakeh) from Lakayash (Lachish) to Yarawashalam (Yarawashalam / Jerusalem) to malak (king) Chazaqayah (Hezekiah) with a large chayal (army). He imad (stood) by the aqueduct from the ilayawan (Most High) barakah (pool) in the kabas (fuller's) shadah (field) masalah (highway).
3 Then Alayaqayam (Eliakim) the ban (son) of Chalaqayah (Hilkiah), who was over the bayath (house), and Shabanaa (Shebna) the sapar (book), and Yawaach (Joah), the ban (son) of Asap (Asaph), the zakar (remember) yatzaa (go out / come out) out to him.
4 Rabashaqah (Rabshakeh) amar (said) to them, “Now amar (said) Chazaqayah (Hezekiah), ‘Thus amaraw (says) the gadawal (very great/important/mighty) malak (king), the malak (king) of Ashawar (Assyria), “What batachawan (confidence) is this in which you trust?
5 I amar (said) that your itzah (counsel) and gabawarah (strength) for the malachamah (war) are only vain dabar (word / matter). Now in whom do you batach (trust), that you have marad (rebelled) against me?
6 Behold, you batach (trust) in the mashainah (staff) of this ratzatz (bruised) qanah (reed), even in Matzarayam (Matzarayam / Egypt), which if a ayash (man / husband) samak (leans) on it, it will bawaa (bring) into his kap (hand) and naqab (pierce) it. So is Paraih (Pharaoh) malak (king) of Matzarayam (Matzarayam / Egypt) to all who batach (trust) in him.
7 But if you amar (spoke) me, ‘We batach (trust) in Yahawah () our Alahayam (),’ isn't that he whose bamah (high) places and whose mazabach (altars) Chazaqayah (Hezekiah) has sawar (taken) away, and has amar (spoke) to Yahawadah (Judah) and to Yarawashalam (Jerusalem), ‘You shall shachah (worship) panayam (face) this mazabach (altar)?’”
8 Now therefore, please make a irab (evening) to my adawan (master / lord) the malak (king) of Ashawar (Assyria), and I will nathan (give) you two alap (thousand) sawasayam (horses), if you are yakal (able) on your part to nathan (give) riders on them.
9 How then can you shawab (turn) away the panayam (face) of achad (one) pachah (captain) of the qatan (small / young / least) of my adawan (master / lord) ibaday (servant of), and batach (put) your trust on Matzarayam (Matzarayam / Egypt) for rakab (chariots) and for horsemen?
10 Have I ilah (go up / offer) up now balaiday (without) Yahawah () against this aratz (Earth/land) to shachath (destroy) it? Yahawah () amar (spoke) to me, “ilah (go up / offer) up against this aratz (Earth/land), and shachath (destroy) it.”’”
11 Then Alayaqayam (Eliakim), Shabanaa (Shebna) and Yawaach (Joah) amar (said) to Rabashaqah (Rabshakeh), “Please dabar (word / matter) to your ibad (servant) in Aramaic, for we shamai (hearken / hear) it; and don't dabar (word / matter) to us in the Yahawadayath (Jews)’ language in the azan (ear) of the im (nation / people) who are on the chawamah (wall).”
12 But Rabashaqah (Rabshakeh) amar (said), “Has my adawan (master / lord) shalach (send) me only to your adawan (master / lord) and to you, to dabar (word / matter) these dabarayam (words), and not to the anashayam (men) who yashab (inhabit/dwell) on the chawamah (wall), who will akal (eat) their own charaa (dung) and shathah (drinks) their own urine with you?”
13 Then Rabashaqah (Rabshakeh) imad (stood), and qaraa (called) out with a gadawal (very great/important/mighty) qawal (sound / voice) in the Yahawadayath (Jews)’ language, and amar (said), “shamai (hearken / hear) the dabaray (words) of the gadawal (very great/important/mighty) malak (king), the malak (king) of Ashawar (Assyria)!
14 Thus amar (said) the malak (king), ‘Don't let Chazaqayah (Hezekiah) nashaa (lift) you; for he will not be yakal (able) to natzal (deliver) you.
15 Don't let Chazaqayah (Hezekiah) batach (make) you trust in Yahawah (), amar (spoke), “Yahawah () will natzal (surely) natzal (deliver) us. This iyar (city) won't be nathan (give) into the yad (hand) of the malak (king) of Ashawar (Assyria).”’
16 Don't shamai (hearken / hear) to Chazaqayah (Hezekiah), for thus amar (said) the malak (king) of Ashawar (Assyria), ‘ishah (make) your barakah (peace) with me, and yatzaa (go out / come out) out to me; and ayash (man / husband) of you akal (eat) from his gapan (vine), and ayash (man / husband) one from his thaan (fig) tree, and ayash (man / husband) one of you shathah (drinks) the may (waters) of his own bawar (cistern);
17 Until I bawaa (bring) and laqach (take / seize) you away to a aratz (Earth/land) like your own aratz (Earth/land), a aratz (Earth/land) of grain and new thayarawash (wine), a aratz (Earth/land) of lacham (bread) and karamayam (vineyards).
18 Beware lest Chazaqayah (Hezekiah) sawath (persuade) you, amar (spoke), “Yahawah () will natzal (deliver) us.” Have any of the Alahayam () of the gawayam (nations) natzal (delivered) their aratz (Earth/land) from the yad (hand) of the malak (king) of Ashawar (Assyria)?
19 Where are the Alahayam () of Chamath (Hamath) and Arapad (Arpad)? Where are the Alahayam () of Saparawayam (Sepharvaim)? Have they natzal (delivered) Shamarawan (Samaria) from my yad (hand)?
20 Who are they among all the Alahayam () of these aratzawath (countries) that have natzal (delivered) their aratz (Earth/land) out of my yad (hand), that Yahawah () should natzal (deliver) Yarawashalam (Jerusalem) out of my yad (hand)?’”
21 But they remained charash (silent), and inah (answer / respond) nothing in reply, for the malak (king) matzawah (commandment) was, “Don't dabar (word / matter) him.”
22 Then Alayaqayam (Eliakim) the ban (son) of Chalaqayah (Hilkiah), who was over the bayath (house), and Shabanaa (Shebna) the sapar (book), and Yawaach (Joah), the ban (son) of Asap (Asaph), the zakar (remember), bawaa (bring) to Chazaqayah (Hezekiah) with their clothes qarai (torn), and nagad (told) him the dabaray (words) of Rabashaqah (Rabshakeh).