²⁵     I have dug wells wherever I wished, and drunk my fill of others’ water.
        I have dried up Egypt’s waterways simply by walking them.’
²⁶     Ah, Sennacherib, haven’t you heard, don’t you know that long before you arrived,
        way back in ancient days, I determined all of this?
    I charted this course long ago, and now I bring it to pass.
        This is the reason why you turn well-fortified cities into heaps of rubble.
²⁷     Their hapless citizens look on,
        helpless, shocked, and ashamed.
    They were temporary and fragile like grass in the field
        or tender new growth, like grass sprouting on rooftops
    Blasted by a burning wind before it can grow and become strong.