Isaiah 37:25
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.””
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“I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.”
King James Version · Public Domain“I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“I--I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 37:25 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 11:10For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.
- 1 Kings 20:10Then Ben-hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if enough dust remains of Samaria for each of my men to have a handful.”
- 2 Kings 19:23Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
- Isaiah 10:13For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
- Isaiah 10:14My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
- Isaiah 19:5The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
- Isaiah 36:12But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
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