Sinai2 Kings 19:24
World English Bible
I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.”
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2 Kings 19:24 in other translations
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
2 Kings 19:24 in context
- 22Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!
- 23By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.
- 24I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.”
- 25Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
- 26Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.