²⁵ I have dug wells in many foreign lands^[a]
    and refreshed myself with their water.
With the sole of my foot,
    I stopped up all the rivers of Egypt!’

²⁶ “But have you not heard?
    I decided this long ago.
Long ago I planned it,
    and now I am making it happen.
I planned for you to crush fortified cities
    into heaps of rubble.
²⁷ That is why their people have so little power
    and are so frightened and confused.
They are as weak as grass,
    as easily trampled as tender green shoots.
They are like grass sprouting on a housetop,
    scorched^[b] before it can grow lush and tall.