When they are diminishedand boweddownThroughoppression,miseryand sorrow,
"ThereI will also providefor you, for there are stillfiveyearsof famine[to come], and you and your householdand allthat you have would be impoverished."'
In thosedaysthe LORDbeganto cutoff[portions] from Israel;and Hazaeldefeatedthem throughoutthe territoryof Israel:
Now Hazaelkingof Aramhad oppressedIsraelallthe daysof Jehoahaz.
For he leftto Jehoahazof the armynot morethanfiftyhorsemenand tenchariotsand 10,000footmen,for the kingof Aramhad destroyedthem and madethem like the dustat threshing.
For the LORDsawthe afflictionof Israel,[which was] verybitter;for there was neitherbondnorfree,norwas thereany helperfor Israel.
Now there camea daywhen Elishapassedoverto Shunem,wherethere was a prominentwoman,and she persuadedhim to eatfood.And so it was, as oftenas he passedby, he turnedin thereto eatfood.
At the endof sevenyears,the womanreturnedfrom the landof the Philistines;and she wentout to appealto the kingfor her houseand for her field.
"He makesthe nationsgreat,then destroysthem; He enlargesthe nations,then leadsthem away.
