Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.

外邦人吞吃他劳力得来的，他却不知道；头发斑白，他也不觉得。

外邦人消耗他的力量，他却不知道；头发斑白，他也不觉得。

外邦人消耗他的力量，他却不知道；头发斑白，他也不觉得。

外族人耗尽了他的力量，他却茫然不知。他头发斑白，却浑然不觉。

外族人吞吃了他的力量，他却不知道；他头上满是白发，他也不晓得。

外邦人吞吃他勞力得來的，他卻不知道；頭髮斑白，他也不覺得。

外邦人消耗他的力量，他卻不知道；頭髮斑白，他也不覺得。

外邦人消耗他的力量，他卻不知道；頭髮斑白，他也不覺得。

外族人耗盡了他的力量，他卻茫然不知。他頭髮斑白，卻渾然不覺。

外族人吞吃了他的力量，他卻不知道；他頭上滿是白髮，他也不曉得。

外族人吞喫了他的力量，他卻不知道；斑白頭髮散布他頭上，他也不覺得。

外人食其力、而彼不知、首髮頒白、而彼不覺、

彼與異邦人爭競、已竭其力、而彼不自覺、首髮斑白、而彼不自知、

異邦人吞其竭力所得、而彼不自覺、髮己頒白、髮已頒白或作彼已衰老而彼不自知、

Foreigners sap his strength, but he does not realize it. His hair is sprinkled with gray, but he does not notice.

People from other lands make them weaker and weaker. But they don’t realize it. Their hair is becoming gray. But they don’t even notice it.

Worshiping foreign gods has sapped their strength, but they don’t even know it. Their hair is gray, but they don’t realize they’re old and weak.

Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not notice.

Strangers devour his strength, Yet he does not know it; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know it.

Aliens have devoured his strength, But he does not know it; Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, Yet he does not know it.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not.

Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not notice.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth[ it] not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced, but he does not recognize it! His head is filled with gray hair, but he does not realize it!

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.

“ They struck me,” you will say,“ but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.”

The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;

Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.

But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say,“ Restore!”Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?Who gave up Jacob to the looter, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.

And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael.Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the Lord, and the Lord listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.( Therefore the Lord gave Israel a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians, and the people of Israel lived in their homes as formerly.Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.

Now Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.