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

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、

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.

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

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.

“ They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.

“ They hit me,” you will say,“ but I’m not hurt! They beat me, but I don’t feel it! When will I wake up so I can find another drink?”

The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.

Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.

But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say,“ Send them back.”Which of you will listen to this or pay close attention in time to come?Who handed Jacob over to become loot, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned? For they would not follow his ways; they did not obey his law.So he poured out on them his burning anger, the violence of war. It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.

So the Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and for a long time he kept them under the power of Hazael king of Aram and Ben-Hadad his son.Then Jehoahaz sought the Lord’s favor, and the Lord listened to him, for he saw how severely the king of Aram was oppressing Israel.The Lord provided a deliverer for Israel, and they escaped from the power of Aram. So the Israelites lived in their own homes as they had before.But they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which he had caused Israel to commit; they continued in them. Also, the Asherah pole remained standing in Samaria.Nothing had been left of the army of Jehoahaz except fifty horsemen, ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed the rest and made them like the dust at threshing time.

Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave him a thousand talents of silver to gain his support and strengthen his own hold on the kingdom.

Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel throughout the reign of Jehoahaz.