2 Kings 19:25
23 Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
24 I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
26 Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
27 But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
- KJV
- Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
- WEB
- Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
- ASV
- Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
- DARBY
- Hast thou not heard long ago that I have done it? And that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities [into] ruinous heaps.
- BLB
- Did you not hear? Long ago I made it, and from ancient times I formed it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should be for crushing [into] heaps of ruins fortified cities.
- ÅB
- [^3] Har du da ikke hørt det? Fra fjerne tider har jeg gjort det, fra fordums dager har jeg laget det så. Nå har jeg latt det komme, så du har fått makt til å ødelegge faste byer og gjøre dem til øde grushauger.
- OTB
- Har du ikke hørt?
For lenge siden gjorde Jeg det,
Fra eldgamle tider planla Jeg det.
Nå har Jeg brakt det til veie,
At du skulle gjøre befestede byer til ruinhauger. - B1930
- Har du da ikke hørt det? Fra fjerne tider har jeg gjort det, fra fordums dager har jeg laget det så. Nu har jeg latt det komme, så du har fått makt til å ødelegge faste byer og gjøre dem til øde grushauger. / < Herrens ord til Sankerib.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 45:7
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
Read in contextIsaiah 37:26–27
Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:5–6
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
Read in contextIsaiah 46:10–11
I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
Read in contextPsalms 76:10
Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
Read in contextActs 4:27–28
In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:15
Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
Read in contextPsalms 33:11
The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.
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