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2 Kings 19:24

I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
2 Kings 19:24 · King James Version

In other versions

  • I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

    ASV

  • I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

    BBE

  • I have digged, and have drunk strange waters, And with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.

    DBY

  • I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

    WEB

  • I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

    YLT

  • I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

    ENG

  • I have digged and drank strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

    WBT

  • I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

    BSB

In context

22Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

23By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

25Hast 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.

26Therefore 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 house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

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