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25 I myself dug wells
    and drank foreign water;
Drying up all the rivers of Egypt
    beneath the soles of my feet.’
26 Have you not heard?
    A long time ago I prepared it,
    from days of old I planned it,
Now I have brought it about:
    You are here to reduce
    fortified cities to heaps of ruins,(A)
27 Their people powerless,
    dismayed and distraught,
They are plants of the field,
    green growth,
    thatch on the rooftops,
Grain scorched by the east wind.

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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 37:25 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:24); Masoretic Text does not have in foreign lands.
  2. Isaiah 37:27 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Kings 19:26); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text roof / and terraced fields