²⁵ I have dug wells in foreign lands
    and drunk the water there,
and with the soles of my feet
    I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’
²⁶ “Have you not heard
    that I devised this plan long ago?
I planned it from days of old,
    and now I have brought this to fruition:
you have reduced your fortified cities
    into heaps of rubble,
²⁷ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
    are dismayed and frustrated;
they have become like plants of the field,
    like tender green herbs,
like grass on housetops and fields
    scorched by the east wind.