²² In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.

⁵ Why should you be beaten more, That you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint.

¹² When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

⁶ Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

¹⁵ Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

⁷ "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness."

³ O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

¹³ For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁵ I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, And seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."

⁹ People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.

¹⁰ The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

¹¹ and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn't repent of their works.