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2 Kings 19:24

World English Bible (WEB)

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

In context

22 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!

23 By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.

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

25 Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

26 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

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2 Kings 19:24 in every translation

WEB World English Bible
I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.”
KJV King James 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.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
ASV American Standard Version
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
DBY Darby Translation
I have digged, and have drunk strange waters, And with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.
WBS Webster Bible
I have digged and drank strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.