ECB(i)
15 and Hilqi Yah answers and says to Shaphan the scribe, I found the scroll of the torah in the house of Yah Veh. And Hilqi Yah gives the scroll to Shaphan:
16 and Shaphan carries the scroll to the sovereign and returns word to the sovereign, saying, All that is given to the hand of your servants, they work:
17 - and they pour the silver found in the house of Yah Veh; and give it into the hand of the overseers and to the hand of the workers.
18 And Shaphan the scribe tells the sovereign, saying, Hilqi Yah the priest gave me a scroll. - and Shaphan calls it out at the face of the sovereign.
19 And so be it, the sovereign hears the words of the torah, and he rips his clothes:
20 and the sovereign misvahs Hilqi Yah and Achiy Qam the son of Shaphan and Abdon the son of Michah Yah and Shaphan the scribe and Asah Yah a servant of the sovereign, saying,
21 Go, enquire of Yah Veh for me and for them who survive in Yisra El and in Yah Hudah, concerning the words of the scroll that is found: for great is the fury of Yah Veh poured out on us because our fathers guarded not the word of Yah Veh - to work according to all inscribed in this scroll.
22 And Hilqi Yah and they of the sovereign go to Huldah the prophetess the woman of Shallum the son of Tiqvah the son of Hasrah, guard of the clothes; - she settles in Yeru Shalem in the second part and thus they word to her.
23 And she says to them, Thus says Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El: Say to the man who sends you to me,
24 Thus says Yah Veh: Behold, I bring evil on this place and on its settlers, all the oaths inscribed in the scroll which they call out at the face of the sovereign of Yah Hudah:
25 because they forsook me and incensed to other elohim, to vex me with all the works of their hands: and I pour out my fury on this place and quench it not.
26 And as for the sovereign of Yah Hudah who sends you to enquire of Yah Veh say to him thus: Thus says Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El whose words you heard:
27 because you tenderize your heart and humble yourself at the face of Elohim - when you hear his words against this place and against the settlers thereof; and humble yourself at my face and rip your clothes and weep at my face; I also hear you - an oracle of Yah Veh.
28 Behold, I gather you to your fathers, - gather to your tomb in shalom, that your eyes not see all the evil I bring on this place and on the settlers of the same. And they return word to the sovereign: