And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down;

and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up. And I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Jehovah of Hosts said in my ears, Truly many big and pleasant houses shall be laid waste, without inhabitant.

Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities have been smashed to ruins without inhabitant, and the houses without a man, and the land is left devastated,

The city of emptiness is broken down; every house is shut up so that no one may come in.

Desolation is left in the city, and the gate is battered and destroyed.

Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

And they shall eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the offspring of your cattle or the increase of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.

Therefore Jehovah his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. They struck him, and carried away a great multitude of them as captives, and brought them to Damascus. Then he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him down with a great slaughter.

At that time King Ahaz had sent to the king of Assyria to help him,

The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Sochoh with its daughter-villages, Timnah with its daughter-villages, and Gimzo with its daughter-villages; and dwelt there.

And Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came to him and distressed him, and did not help him.

a fruitful land into barrenness, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction and sorrow,

O Jerusalem, be instructed, lest My soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.

For every trembling boot of the warrior, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be fuel for burning in the fire.

And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.

The young lions roared against him; they uttered their voice. And they made his land a waste; his cities are burned without inhabitant.

Then shall the lambs feed in their pastures, and the waste places of the fat ones shall sojourners eat.

A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and your produce, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.

The sojourners among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.

therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom Jehovah will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron upon your neck until He has destroyed you.

a nation of fierce countenance, which does not regard the face of the old nor show favor to the young.

They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which Jehovah your God has given to you.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers; our houses to foreigners.

I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of evil ones; I will make the land waste, and all that is in it, by the hand of strangers. I, Jehovah, have spoken.

Strangers have eaten up his strength, yet he does not know it. Yea, gray hairs are sprinkled here and there on him, yet he does not know it.

For they sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no flour. If it should happen to produce, strangers will swallow it up.