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Isaiah 37:24-26
New International Version
Isaiah 37:24-26
New International Version
24 By your messengers
you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,
‘With my many chariots(A)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
the utmost heights(B) of Lebanon.(C)
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
the choicest of its junipers.(D)
I have reached its remotest heights,
the finest of its forests.
25 I have dug wells in foreign lands[a]
and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
I have dried up(E) all the streams of Egypt.(F)’
Footnotes
- Isaiah 37:25 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:24); Masoretic Text does not have in foreign lands.
Isaiah 37:24-26
English Standard Version
Isaiah 37:24-26
English Standard Version
24 By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, (A)With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon,
(B)to cut down its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
its most fruitful forest.
25 I dug wells
and drank waters,
to dry up with the sole of my foot
all (C)the streams (D)of Egypt.
26 (E)“‘Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,
Isaiah 37:24-26
New King James Version
Isaiah 37:24-26
New King James Version
24 By your servants you have reproached the Lord,
And said, ‘By the multitude of my chariots
I have come up to the height of the mountains,
To the limits of Lebanon;
I will cut down its tall cedars
And its choice cypress trees;
I will enter its farthest height,
To its fruitful forest.
25 I have dug and drunk water,
And with the soles of my feet I have dried up
All the brooks of [a]defense.’
26 “Did you not hear (A)long ago
How I made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 37:25 Or perhaps Egypt
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