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


In Context

21 This is the word that Jehovah has spoken against him: The virgin-daughter of Zion despiseth thee, laugheth thee to scorn; The daughter of Jerusalem shaketh her head at thee.

22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy one of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high.

23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots have I come up To the height of the mountain, to the recesses of Lebanon, And I will cut down its tall cedars, the choice of its cypresses; And I will enter into its furthest lodging-place, into the forest of its fruitful field.

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

25 Hast thou not heard long ago that I have done it? And that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

26 And their inhabitants were powerless, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were as the growing grass, and as the green herb, As the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be 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 American Standard 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 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.