Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

他们又因暴虐、患难、愁苦，就减少且卑下。

但他们因欺压、患难、愁苦，人口减少而且卑微。

但他们因欺压、患难、愁苦，人口减少而且卑微。

后来他们在压迫、患难和痛苦的煎熬下人口减少，地位卑下。

以后他们因为压迫、患难、愁苦，就人数减少，降为卑微。

后来因着压迫、灾祸和悲哀的事，他们就人数减少，降为卑屈。

他們又因暴虐、患難、愁苦，就減少且卑下。

但他們因欺壓、患難、愁苦，人口減少而且卑微。

但他們因欺壓、患難、愁苦，人口減少而且卑微。

後來他們在壓迫、患難和痛苦的煎熬下人口減少，地位卑下。

以後他們因為壓迫、患難、愁苦，就人數減少，降為卑微。

他們又因受威壓，受患難，有愁苦，而人數減少，地位受屈抑。

後來因著壓迫、災禍和悲哀的事，他們就人數減少，降為卑屈。

厥後復遭暴虐、患難憂苦、民乃減少、而卑抑兮、

復降眚災、加以禍患、俾民數衰少、民心悚懼兮、

民因遭暴虐患難而愁苦、遂至滅少卑微、

主德蕩蕩。無偏無黨。

Then their numbers decreased, and they were humbled by oppression, calamity and sorrow;

Then the number of God’s people got smaller. They were made humble by trouble, suffering and sorrow.

When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, evil, and sorrow,

When they decrease in number and become impoverished through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,

When they are diminished and are humbled by cruel oppression and sorrow,

When they become few and lowly Because of oppression, misery, and sorrow,

When they are diminished and brought low Through oppression, affliction, and sorrow,

Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

When they are diminished and are humbled by cruel oppression and sorrow,

As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;

Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon[ is] like a threshingfloor,[ it is] time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve,[ was] with rigour.

Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath[ is] in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.And there was a day when his sons and his daughters[ were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:And the Sabeans fell[ upon them], and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.While he[ was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.While he[ was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

And[ so] it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude;[ for] both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.

And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why[ then] call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

And in those times[ there was] no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations[ were] upon all the inhabitants of the countries.And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face,[ and] I was troubled.

For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel,[ that it was] very bitter: for[ there was] not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.

[ They that were] full have hired out themselves for bread; and[ they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where[ was] a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And[ so] it was,[ that] as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

And there will I nourish thee; for yet[ there are] five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

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