Isaiah 37:25-27

Sennacherib's Fall

25 I dug wells
and drank waters,
to dry up with the sole of my foot
all b the streams c of Egypt.

26 d "'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,
 27 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted 1 before it is grown.

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:6
    And its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away.
  2. Cross References
    Isaiah 20:4
    So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:5
    Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!
    Isaiah 10:15
    Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
    Isaiah 25:1 - 2
    O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
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