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Read›Isaiah›Chapter 37

Sennacherib’s Fall Prophesied

Isaiah 37:25

In 11 translations

BSB
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”DSS (see also 2 Kings 19:24); MT does not include foreign.
KJV
I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.besieged: or, fenced and closed
WEB
I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
ASV
I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
LSV
I have dug and drunk waters, || And I dry up with the sole of my steps || All floods of a bulwark.
YLT
I — I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
DBY
I have digged and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.
DRC
I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.
GNV
I haue digged and drunke the waters, and with the plant of my feete haue I dryed all the riuers closed in.
JPS
I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.
LXXE
and I have made a bridge, and dried up the waters, and every pool of water.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אֲנִ֥י קַ֖רְתִּי וְשָׁתִ֣יתִי מָ֑יִם וְאַחְרִב֙ בְּכַף־פְּעָמַ֔י כֹּ֖ל יְאֹרֵ֥י מָצֽוֹר׃
LXX-Br
καὶ ἔθηκα γέφυραν, καὶ ἠρήμωσα ὕδατα καὶ πᾶσαν συναγωγὴν ὕδατος.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.”
  • 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.
  • 2 Kings 19:23–24Through 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…
  • 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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