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

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

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 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 deserted, And the travelers walked along the byways.

A highway shall be there, and a road, And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, But it shall be for others. Whoever walks the road, although a fool, Shall not go astray.

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

You speak of having plans and power for war; but they are mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?Now look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

And the Philistine said,“ I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.”

Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, Whose carved images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria,As I have done to Samaria and her idols, Shall I not do also to Jerusalem and her idols?’”

They have gone along the ridge, They have taken up lodging at Geba. Ramah is afraid, Gibeah of Saul has fled.Lift up your voice, O daughter of Gallim! Cause it to be heard as far as Laish— O poor Anathoth!Madmenah has fled, The inhabitants of Gebim seek refuge.

His ways are always prospering; Your judgments are far above, out of his sight; As for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying,“ I have done wrong; turn away from me; whatever you impose on me I will pay.” And the king of Assyria assessed 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 house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house.At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish, with a great army against Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they went and stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool, which was on the highway to the Fuller’s Field.

For he says:“ By the strength of my hand I have done it, And by my wisdom, for I am prudent; Also I have removed the boundaries of the people, And have robbed their treasuries; So I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man.My hand has found like a nest the riches of the people, And as one gathers eggs that are left, I have gathered all the earth; And there was no one who moved his wing, Nor opened his mouth with even a peep.”

saying:“ There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man.Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying,‘ Get justice for me from my adversary.’And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself,‘ Though I do not fear God nor regard man,

The roads to Zion mourn Because no one comes to the set feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted, And she is in bitterness.

Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying,“ What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”