Who is this wicked counselor of yours who plots evil against the Lord?

有一人从你那里出来，图谋邪恶，设恶计攻击耶和华。

有一人从你那里出来，图谋邪恶，设恶计攻击耶和华。

有一人从你那里出来，图谋邪恶，设恶计攻击耶和华。

你们当中有一个人，一个邪恶的阴谋者，图谋抵挡耶和华。

有人从你那里出来，就是筹划奸恶的人，图谋恶事攻击耶和华。

有一人從你那裏出來，圖謀邪惡，設惡計攻擊耶和華。

有一人從你那裏出來，圖謀邪惡，設惡計攻擊耶和華。

有一人從你那裏出來，圖謀邪惡，設惡計攻擊耶和華。

你們當中有一個人，一個邪惡的陰謀者，圖謀抵擋耶和華。

有人從你那裡出來，就是籌劃奸惡的人，圖謀惡事攻擊耶和華。

有一個人出於你中間，計謀毁壞之事來反抗永恆主，籌劃極惡的毁滅。

有一人焉、自爾而出、向耶和華圖奸惡、謀不軌、

尼尼微謀士、惟惡是作、專行不軌、悖逆耶和華、

惟爾尼尼微、邪謬之議士、由爾中出、所謀惟惡、欲攻擊主、

From you, Nineveh, has one come forth who plots evil against the Lord and devises wicked plans.

Nineveh, a king has marched out from you. He makes evil plans against the Lord. He thinks about how he can do what is wrong.

From you came one who plotted evil against the Lord, a worthless counselor.

One has gone out from you, who plots evil against the LORD, and is a wicked counselor.

From you has gone out One who plotted evil against the Lord, A wicked counselor.

From you comes forth one Who plots evil against the Lord, A wicked counselor.

There is one gone forth out of thee, that deviseth evil against Jehovah, that counselleth wickedness.

One has gone out from you, who plots evil against Yahweh, and is a wicked counselor.

There is[ one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.

From you, O Nineveh, one has marched forth who plots evil against the LORD, a wicked military strategist.

There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

Why are you scheming against the Lord? He will destroy you with one blow; he won’t need to strike twice!

Then a whole gang of scoundrels joined him, defying Solomon’s son Rehoboam when he was young and inexperienced and could not stand up to them.

“ Whom have you been defying and ridiculing? Against whom did you raise your voice? At whom did you look with such haughty eyes? It was the Holy One of Israel!By your messengers you have defied the Lord. You have said,‘ With my many chariots I have conquered the highest mountains— yes, the remotest peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars and its finest cypress trees. I have reached its farthest corners and explored its deepest forests.I have dug wells in many foreign lands and refreshed myself with their water. With the sole of my foot I stopped up all the rivers of Egypt!’“ But have you not heard? I decided this long ago. Long ago I planned it, and now I am making it happen. I planned for you to crush fortified cities into heaps of rubble.

Now the sons of Eli were scoundrels who had no respect for the Lord

But the king of Assyria will not understand that he is my tool; his mind does not work that way. His plan is simply to destroy, to cut down nation after nation.He will say,‘ Each of my princes will soon be a king.We destroyed Calno just as we did Carchemish. Hamath fell before us as Arpad did. And we destroyed Samaria just as we did Damascus.Yes, we have finished off many a kingdom whose gods were greater than those in Jerusalem and Samaria.So we will defeat Jerusalem and her gods, just as we destroyed Samaria with hers.’”After the Lord has used the king of Assyria to accomplish his purposes on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, he will turn against the king of Assyria and punish him— for he is proud and arrogant.He boasts,“ By my own powerful arm I have done this. With my own shrewd wisdom I planned it. I have broken down the defenses of nations and carried off their treasures. I have knocked down their kings like a bull.I have robbed their nests of riches and gathered up kingdoms as a farmer gathers eggs. No one can even flap a wing against me or utter a peep of protest.”But can the ax boast greater power than the person who uses it? Is the saw greater than the person who saws? Can a rod strike unless a hand moves it? Can a wooden cane walk by itself?

Don’t let him fool you into trusting in the Lord by saying,‘ The Lord will surely rescue us. This city will never fall into the hands of the Assyrian king!’

Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you! Don’t let him fool you like this! I say it again— no god of any nation or kingdom has ever yet been able to rescue his people from me or my ancestors. How much less will your God rescue you from my power!”And Sennacherib’s officers further mocked the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah, heaping insult upon insult.The king also sent letters scorning the Lord, the God of Israel. He wrote,“ Just as the gods of all the other nations failed to rescue their people from my power, so the God of Hezekiah will also fail.”The Assyrian officials who brought the letters shouted this in Hebrew to the people gathered on the walls of the city, trying to terrify them so it would be easier to capture the city.These officers talked about the God of Jerusalem as though he were one of the pagan gods, made by human hands.

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria came to attack the fortified towns of Judah and conquered them.King Hezekiah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish:“ I have done wrong. I will pay whatever tribute money you demand if you will only withdraw.” The king of Assyria then demanded a settlement of more than eleven tons of silver and one ton of gold.

There happened to be a troublemaker there named Sheba son of Bicri, a man from the tribe of Benjamin. Sheba blew a ram’s horn and began to chant:“ Down with the dynasty of David! We have no interest in the son of Jesse. Come on, you men of Israel, back to your homes!”