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."


In Context

21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: " 'The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.

22 Who is it you have insulted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

23 By your messengers you have heaped insults on the Lord. And you have said, "With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its pines. I have reached its remotest parts, the finest of its forests.

24 I 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."

25 " 'Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.

26 Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched before it grows up.

2nd Kings 19:24 in Other Translations

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 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.