Catholic Public Domain Version
"I have cut down. And I drank foreign waters, and I dried up all the enclosed waters with the steps of my feet.’ "
— 2 Kings 19:24, Catholic Public Domain Version
“I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.”
“I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt. ”
“I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'”
“I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’”
“I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.”
“I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.”
“I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.”
This is the word that the Lord has spoken about him: The virgin daughter of Zion has spurned and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind your back.
Whom have you reproached, and whom have you blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!
By the hand of your servants, you have reproached the Lord, and you have said: ‘By the multitude of my chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the summit of Lebanon. And I have cut down its sublime cedars, and its elect spruce trees. And I have entered even to its limits. And its forest of Carmel,
I have cut down. And I drank foreign waters, and I dried up all the enclosed waters with the steps of my feet.’
But have you not heard what I have done from the beginning? From the days of antiquity, I have formed it, and now I have brought it to be. And fortified cities of fighting men will become piles of ruins.
And whoever may settle in these, they have trembled, with a weak hand, and they have been confounded. They have become like the hay of the field, and like weeds sprouting on the rooftops, which dry up before they reached maturity.
Your habitation, and your exit, and your entrance, and your way, I knew beforehand, along with your fury against me.