2 Kings 19
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2 Kings 19:21-28

21This is the word that Yhwh hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

22Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

23By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.123

24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.4

25Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.5

26Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it be grown up.6

27But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.7

28Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

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Notes

  1. 1. 2 Kings 19:23 By: Heb. By the hand of. ↩
  2. 2. 2 Kings 19:23 tall…: Heb. tallness, etc. ↩
  3. 3. 2 Kings 19:23 of his Carmel: or, and his fruitful field. ↩
  4. 4. 2 Kings 19:24 besieged: or, fenced. ↩
  5. 5. 2 Kings 19:25 long…: or, how I have made it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? should I now bring it to be laid waste, and fenced cities to be ruinous heaps? ↩
  6. 6. 2 Kings 19:26 of small…: Heb. short of hand. ↩
  7. 7. 2 Kings 19:27 abode: or, sitting. ↩

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