²⁵ Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it,
and of ancient times that I have formed it?
now have I brought it to pass,
that thou shouldest be to lay waste
fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
²⁶ Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,
they were dismayed and confounded;
they were as the grass of the field,
and as the green herb,
as the grass on the housetops,
and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
²⁷ But I know thy abode,
and thy going out, and thy coming in,
and thy rage against me.