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24 I dug wells and drank foreign waters,
And with the sole of my feet I [a](A)dried up
All the rivers of [b]Egypt.”

25 (B)Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it;
From days of old I formed it.
(C)Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should devastate fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
26 So their inhabitants were short of power,
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were (D)as the plant of the field and as the green herb,
As grass on the rooftops is scorched before it rises.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 19:24 As in some ancient versions; M.T. will dry up
  2. 2 Kings 19:24 Lit the besieged place