The highways are deserted, no travelers are on the roads. The treaty is broken, its witnesses are despised, no one is respected.

大路荒凉，行人止息；敌人背约，藐视城邑，不顾人民。

大路荒凉，行人止息；盟约撕毁，见证被弃，人也不受尊重。

大路荒凉，行人止息；盟约撕毁，见证被弃，人也不受尊重。

大路荒凉，行人绝迹。条约被废，城邑被弃，人民遭藐视。

大路荒凉，过路的人绝迹；敌人背约，藐视约章，不尊重任何人。

大道荒凉，行人绝迹；约被破坏，城被厌弃，人也不被重视。

大路荒涼，行人止息；敵人背約，藐視城邑，不顧人民。

大路荒涼，行人止息；盟約撕毀，見證被棄，人也不受尊重。

大路荒涼，行人止息；盟約撕毀，見證被棄，人也不受尊重。

大路荒涼，行人絕跡。條約被廢，城邑被棄，人民遭藐視。

大路荒涼，過路的人絕跡；敵人背約，藐視約章，不尊重任何人。

大路荒涼，過路人絕跡；人違犯了約，棄絕了證言，不以人為意。

大道荒涼，行人絕跡；約被破壞，城被厭棄，人也不被重視。

通衢荒寂、行旅絕迹、敵爽盟約、藐視城邑、不顧人民、

逵衢寂寞、行旅不至、敵爽盟約、藐視我城垣、不顧我人民、

大道荒蕪、行旅絕迹、敵人廢約、藐視城邑、不顧不顧或作輕視人民、

The wide roads are deserted. No one travels on them. Our peace treaty with Assyria is broken. Those who witnessed it are looked down on. No one is respected.

The highways lie waste; the traveler ceases. Covenants are broken; cities are despised; there is no regard for man.

Your roads are deserted; no one travels them anymore. The Assyrians have broken their peace treaty and care nothing for the promises they made before witnesses. They have no respect for anyone.

The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. An agreement has been broken, cities despised, and human life disregarded.

The highways are desolate, the traveler has ceased, He has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, He has no regard for mankind.

The highways lie waste, The traveling man ceases. He has broken the covenant, He has despised the cities, He regards no man.

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: the enemy hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man.

The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. An agreement has been broken, cities despised, and human life disregarded.

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

Highways are empty, there are no travelers. Treaties are broken, witnesses are despised, human life is treated with disrespect.

The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.

“ In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned; travelers took to winding paths.

And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it.

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

You say you have the counsel and the might for war— but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.

Then the Philistine said,“ This day I defy the armies of Israel! Give me a man and let us fight each other.”

‘ Has not Kalno fared like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus?As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?’”

They go over the pass, and say,“ We will camp overnight at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.Cry out, Daughter Gallim! Listen, Laishah! Poor Anathoth!Madmenah is in flight; the people of Gebim take cover.

His ways are always prosperous; your laws are rejected by him; he sneers at all his enemies.

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish:“ I have done wrong. Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me.” The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace.At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors and doorposts of the temple of the Lord, and gave it to the king of Assyria.The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman’s Field.

For he says:“‘ By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. I removed the boundaries of nations, I plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their kings.As one reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations; as people gather abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the countries; not one flapped a wing, or opened its mouth to chirp.’”

He said:“ In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea,‘ Grant me justice against my adversary.’“ For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself,‘ Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think,

The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.

David asked the men standing near him,“ What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”