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Isaiah 37:25

23 Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

24 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 heights, the densest of its forests.

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

26 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.

27 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.

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BSB
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
KJV
I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
WEB
I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
ASV
I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
DARBY
I have digged and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.
BLB
I have dug, and I have drunk [foreign] water, and I have dried up with the soles of my feet all the rivers of Egypt.”
ÅB
jeg gravde brønner og drakk av dem, og jeg tørker ut alle Egypts strømmer med mine fotsåler.
OTB
Jeg har gravd brønner og drukket vann, og med mine føtters såle har jeg tørket opp alle Egypts bekker.’
B1930
jeg gravde brønner og drakk av dem, og jeg tørker ut alle Egyptens strømmer med mine fotsåler.

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Cross references

  • 1 Kings 20:10

    Then Ben-hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if enough dust remains of Samaria for each of my men to have a handful.”

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  • Deuteronomy 11:10

    For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.

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  • Isaiah 36:12

    But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

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  • 2 Kings 19:23–24

    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.

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