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25 I dug wells and drank waters,
And (A)with the sole of my feet I dried up
All the rivers of [a]Egypt.’
26 (B)Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it;
From days of old I (C)formed it.
Now (D)I have brought it to pass,
That (E)you should devastate fortified cities into (F)ruinous heaps.
27 So their inhabitants were short of power;
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were as the (G)plant of the field and as the green herb,
As (H)grass on the rooftops [b]is scorched before it rises.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 37:25 Or the besieged place
  2. Isaiah 37:27 As in DSS and 2 Kin 19:26; M.T. as a plowed field