³⁴ ‘^(A)Then the land will ^[a]enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and ^[b]enjoy its sabbaths. ³⁵ All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it. ³⁶ As for those of you who may be left, I will also bring ^(B)weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee ^[c]as though from the sword, and they will fall. ^37 (C)They will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength ^[d]to stand up before your enemies. ³⁸ But ^(D)you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. ^39 (E)So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away with them.

Israel Captive

⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, ^(A)the king of Assyria captured Samaria and ^(B)carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and ^(C)settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of ^(D)Gozan, and ^(E)in the cities of the Medes.

¹⁸ So the Lord was very angry with Israel and ^(A)removed them from His ^[a]sight; ^(B)none was left except the tribe of Judah.

²¹ Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. ^(A)So Judah was led away into exile from its land.