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.

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 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.

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 the field marshal, the chief of staff, and his royal spokesman, along with a massive army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced and came to Jerusalem, and they took their position by the aqueduct of the upper pool, by the road to the Launderer’s Field.

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

After this, while King Sennacherib of Assyria with all his armed forces besieged Lachish, he sent his servants to Jerusalem against King Hezekiah of Judah and against all those of Judah who were in Jerusalem, saying,

Then Moses asked Aaron,“ What did these people do to you that you have led them into such a grave sin?”

Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for Ahab’s daughter was his wife. He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight.

Then, as if following the sin of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not enough, he married Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and then proceeded to serve Baal and bow in worship to him.

But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

After this I saw another angel with great authority coming down from heaven, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor.He called out in a mighty voice: It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen! She has become a home for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, and a haunt for every unclean and despicable beast.For all the nations have drunk the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath. The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from her sensuality and excess.Then I heard another voice from heaven: Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins or receive any of her plagues.For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.

When the royal spokesman heard that the king of Assyria had pulled out of Lachish, he left and found him fighting against Libnah.

But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.

Even after this, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil way but again made priests for the high places from the ranks of the people. He ordained whoever so desired it, and they became priests of the high places.This was the sin that caused the house of Jeroboam to be cut off and obliterated from the face of the earth.

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Assyria’s King Sennacherib attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.So King Hezekiah of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish:“ I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you demand from me, I will pay.” The king of Assyria demanded eleven tons of silver and one ton of gold from King Hezekiah of Judah.

All this will happen because of Jacob’s rebellion and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the rebellion of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Isn’t it Jerusalem?

I observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce. Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.

“ Now her sister Oholibah saw this, but she was even more depraved in her lust than Oholah, and made her promiscuous acts worse than those of her sister.

Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,

but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even sacrificed his son in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites.He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said,“ Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

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

Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and the archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.

He will give up Israel because of Jeroboam’s sins that he committed and caused Israel to commit.”