Isaiah 37:24-27

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“Through your servants you have reproached the Lord,
And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of ^(A)Lebanon;
And I cut down its tall ^(B)cedars and its choice cypresses.
And I will go to its ^(a)highest peak, its thickest ^(C)forest.

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‘I dug wells and drank waters,
And ^(D)with the sole of my feet I dried up
All the rivers of ^(b)Egypt.’

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“^(E)Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it,
From ancient times I ^(F)planned it.
Now ^(G)I have brought it to pass,
That ^(H)you should turn fortified cities into ^(I)ruinous heaps.

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“Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were as the ^(J)vegetation of the field and as the green herb,
As ^(K)grass on the housetops ^(c)is scorched before it is grown up.

Footnotes:

a. Isaiah 37:24: ['Lit ', farthest height]

b. Isaiah 37:25: ['Or ', the besieged place]

c. Isaiah 37:27: ['So DSS and 2 Kin 19:26; M.T. as ', a plowed field]

Cross references:

A. Isaiah 37:24: Isaiah 10:33; Isaiah 10:34

B. Isaiah 37:24: Isaiah 14:8

C. Isaiah 37:24: Isaiah 10:18

D. Isaiah 37:25: Deuteronomy 11:10

E. Isaiah 37:26: Isaiah 40:21; Isaiah 40:28

F. Isaiah 37:26: Acts 2:23; Acts 4:27; Acts 4:28; 1 Peter 2:8

G. Isaiah 37:26: Isaiah 46:11

H. Isaiah 37:26: Isaiah 10:6

I. Isaiah 37:26: Isaiah 17:1; Isaiah 25:2

J. Isaiah 37:27: Isaiah 40:7

K. Isaiah 37:27: Psalm 129:6