24 I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.” 25 Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble. 26 Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
2 Kings 19:24–26
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