⁴³ “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.

³³ A nation whom you have not known shall eat ^(A)the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.

Assyria Refuses to Help Judah^(A)

^16 (B)At the same time King Ahaz sent to the ^[a]kings of Assyria to help him. ¹⁷ For again the ^(C)Edomites had come, attacked Judah, and carried away captives. ^18 (D)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 villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages; and they dwelt there. ¹⁹ For the Lord ^[b]brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of ^(E)Israel, for he had ^(F)encouraged moral decline in Judah and had been continually unfaithful to the Lord. ²⁰ Also ^(G)Tiglath-Pileser^[c] king of Assyria came to him and distressed him, and did not assist him. ²¹ For Ahaz took part of the treasures from the house of the Lord, from the house of the king, and from the leaders, and he gave it to the king of Assyria; but he did not help him.

Syria and Israel Defeat Judah^(A)

⁵ Therefore ^(B)the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. They ^(C)defeated 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 defeated him with a great slaughter.

⁴⁸ therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in ^(A)hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He ^(B)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. ^49 (C)The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, ^(D)as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, ⁵⁰ a nation of fierce countenance, ^(E)which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young. ⁵¹ And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.

⁵² “They shall ^(F)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 the Lord your God has given you.