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


In Context

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

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

23 By thy messengers thou hast defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.

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

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

26 Therefore 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 is grown up.

2 Kings 19:24 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:24I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:24I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:24I have digged, and have drunk strange waters, And with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:24I have digged and drank strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:24I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:24I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:24I have dig and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.