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25 I myself dug and drank waters,
    and I caused all the streams of Egypt to dry up by the sole of my feet.”
26 Have you not heard from a long time ago?[a] I have made it
    from days of primeval time, and I formed it.
Now I have brought it about,
    and it is for fortified cities to collapse into heaps of destroyed stones.
27 And their inhabitants are weak;[b]
    they are dismayed, and they are ashamed;
they have become like plants[c] of the field,
    and like greens of grass,
like grass on[d] the roofs
    and a cultivated field before[e] the standing grain.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 37:26 Literally “distant”
  2. Isaiah 37:27 Literally “short of hand”
  3. Isaiah 37:27 Hebrew “plant”
  4. Isaiah 37:27 Or “of”
  5. Isaiah 37:27 Literally “before the face of”