³³ A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually,

^43 (A)The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.

^16 (A)At that time King Ahaz sent to the king^[a] of Assyria for help. ¹⁷ For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives. ^18 (B)And the Philistines had made raids on ^(C)the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco ^(D)with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there. ¹⁹ For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made ^(E)Judah act sinfully^[b] and had been very unfaithful to the Lord. ²⁰ So ^(F)Tiglath-pileser^[c] king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him. ^21 (G)For Ahaz took a portion from the house of the Lord and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.

Judah Defeated

^5 (A)Therefore the Lord his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.

⁴⁸ therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he ^(A)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. ^49 (B)The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, ^(C)swooping down like the eagle, a nation ^(D)whose language you do not understand, ⁵⁰ a hard-faced nation ^(E)who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. ⁵¹ It shall ^(F)eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

⁵² “They shall ^(G)besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you.