And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be [left] to be trodden down.

And I will forsake My vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts; for though many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them.

And I said, How long, O Lord? And He said, Until cities are deserted by reason of them not being inhabited, and the houses by reason of there being no men, and the land shall be left desolate.

All the city has become desolate; one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.

And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.

Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of its desolation.

And it shall eat up the young of your livestock, and the fruits of your land, so as not to leave to you grain, wine, oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until it has destroyed you;

And the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. And [the king] attacked him, and took a great multitude of prisoners captive, and carried him to Damascus. Also [God] delivered him into the hands of the king of Israel, who defeated him with a great slaughter.

At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria to help him, and on this occasion,

Also the Philistines had made an attack on the cities of the plain country, and the cities of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, and (the things in the house of the Lord, and the things in the house of the king, and of the princes, and they gave [these] to the king) Aijalon, Gederoth, Sochoh and her villages, Timnah and her villages, and Gimzo and her villages. And they dwelt there.

And Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came against him, and he afflicted him.

a fruitful land into saltness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.

Again they become few, and are brought low, by the pressure of evils and pain.

You shall be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest My soul depart from you; lest I make you a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.

For they shall compensate for every garment that has been acquired by deceit, and [all] garments with restitution; and they shall be willing, [even] if they were burned with fire.

And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;

The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness; and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited.

And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away.

A nation which you know not shall eat the produce of your land, and all your labors; and you shall be perpetually injured and crushed.

The stranger that is within you shall be lifted up, and you shall be brought down very low.

And you shall serve your enemies, which the Lord will send forth against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the desire of all things; and you shall wear upon your neck a yoke of iron until He has destroyed you.

a nation bold in countenance, which shall not respect the person of the aged and shall not pity the young.

and has utterly crushed you in your cities, until the high and strong walls be destroyed in which you trusted, in all your land; and it shall afflict you in your cities, which He has given to you.

Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers.

And I will make their rivers desolate, and will destroy the land and its fulness by the hands of strangers: I the Lord have spoken.

Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew [it] not; and gray hairs came upon him, and he knew [it] not.

For they sowed blighted [seed], and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.