²⁵ I have dug wells in foreign lands^[a]
    and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
    I have dried up^(A) all the streams of Egypt.^(B)’

²⁶ “Have you not heard?
    Long ago I ordained^(C) it.
In days of old I planned^(D) it;
    now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
    into piles of stone.^(E)
27 Their people, drained of power,
    are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,
like grass^(F) sprouting on the roof,^(G)
    scorched^[b] before it grows up.