26 (A)Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it,
From ancient times I (B)planned it.
Now (C)I have brought it to pass,
That (D)you should turn fortified cities into (E)ruinous heaps.
27 “Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were as the (F)vegetation of the field and as the green herb,
As (G)grass on the housetops [a]is scorched before it is grown up.
28 “But I (H)know your sitting down
And your going out and your coming in
And your raging against Me.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 37:27 So DSS and 2 Kin 19:26; M.T. as a plowed field