Harness the chariot to the team of horses, You inhabitant of Lachish— She was the beginning of sin To the daughter of Zion— Because in you were found The rebellious acts of Israel.

拉吉的居民哪，要用快马套车；锡安民的罪由你而起；以色列人的罪过在你那里显出。

拉吉的居民哪，要用快马套车；锡安的罪由你而起，以色列的罪过在你那里显出。

拉吉的居民哪，要用快马套车；锡安的罪由你而起，以色列的罪过在你那里显出。

拉吉的居民啊，用骏马套车逃命吧！是你们首先唆使锡安城犯罪，在你们身上看到了以色列的罪恶。

拉吉的居民哪！要用快马套车，这就是锡安子民（“子民”原文作“女子”）罪恶的开端；因为以色列的过犯，都在你那里找到了。

拉吉的居民哪，要用快馬套車；錫安民的罪由你而起；以色列人的罪過在你那裏顯出。

拉吉的居民哪，要用快馬套車；錫安的罪由你而起，以色列的罪過在你那裏顯出。

拉吉的居民哪，要用快馬套車；錫安的罪由你而起，以色列的罪過在你那裏顯出。

拉吉的居民啊，用駿馬套車逃命吧！是你們首先唆使錫安城犯罪，在你們身上看到了以色列的罪惡。

拉吉的居民哪！要用快馬套車，這就是錫安子民（“子民”原文作“女子”）罪惡的開端；因為以色列的過犯，都在你那裡找到了。

拉吉的居民哪，用快馬套車哦；（這是錫安子民犯罪的起點）因為以色列的過犯都發現在你那裏。

拉吉居民歟、其以快馬駕車、錫安女獲罪、始於拉吉、以色列之罪戾、肇見於爾中、

拉吉居民、始誘郇民、蹈於愆尤、使以色列族犯罪、故以健馬駕車而遁、

拉吉居民、當以駿馬駕車而遁、蓋爾始誘郇之民民原文作女犯罪、以色列人蹈於愆尤、蹈於愆尤或作違背主由爾而起、

You who live in Lachish, harness fast horses to the chariot. You are where the sin of Daughter Zion began, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

You who live in Lachish, get your fast horses ready to pull their chariots. You trust in military power. Lachish was where sin began for the people of Zion. The wrong things Israel did were also done by you.

Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; it was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.

Harness your chariot horses and flee, you people of Lachish. You were the first city in Judah to follow Israel in her rebellion, and you led Jerusalem into sin.

Harness the horses to the chariot, you residents of Lachish. This was the beginning of sin for Daughter Zion because Israel’s acts of rebellion can be traced to you.

O inhabitant of Lachish, Harness the chariot to the swift steeds( She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion), For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

Harness the horses to the chariot, you residents of Lachish. This was the beginning of sin for Daughter Zion, because Israel’s acts of rebellion can be traced to you.

O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she[ is] the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

Residents of Lachish, hitch the horses to the chariots! You influenced Daughter Zion to sin, for Israel’s rebellious deeds can be traced back to you!

Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

Then the king of Assyria sent Tartan, Rab saris, and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large army to Jerusalem. So they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they went up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the road of the fuller’s field.

Therefore Adoni zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,

After this Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem while he was besieging Lachish with all his forces with him, against Hezekiah king of Judah and against all of Judah who were in Jerusalem, saying,

Then Moses said to Aaron,“ What did this people do to you, that you have brought such a great sin upon them?”

Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for Ahab’s daughter was his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

And as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

But I have a few things against you, because you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated from his glory.And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying,“ Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird.For all the nations have fallen because of the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich from the excessive wealth of her luxury.”I heard another voice from heaven, saying,“ Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive any of her plagues;for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her offenses.

Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond servants astray so that they commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

After this event, Jeroboam did not abandon his evil way, but he again appointed priests of the high places from all the people; anyone who wanted, he ordained, and he became one of the priests of the high places.This event also became a sin of the house of Jeroboam, even to wipe it out and eliminate it from the face of the earth.

Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria marched against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent messengers to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying,“ I have done wrong. Withdraw from me; whatever you impose on me I will endure.” So the king of Assyria imposed on Hezekiah king of Judah the payment of three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

All this is due to the wrongdoing of Jacob And the sins of the house of Israel. What is the wrongdoing of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? What is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and prostituted herself also.

“ Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her obscene practices were more than the prostitution of her sister.

Lachish, Bozkath, and Eglon,

But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and he even made his son pass through the fire, in accordance with the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the sons of Israel.And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

When they had brought them outside, one said,“ Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the surrounding area; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away.”

Madmenah has fled. The inhabitants of Gebim have sought refuge.

At the sound of the horseman and archer every city flees; They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks; Every city is abandoned, And no one lives in them.

He will give up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he committed and with which he misled Israel into sin.”