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


In Context

21 this is the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: 'Trampled on thee — laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion Behind thee shaken the head — Hath the daughter of Jerusalem?

22 Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up a voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes — Against the Holy One of Israel!

23 By the hand of thy messengers Thou hast reproached the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of mountains — The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the lodging of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.

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

25 Hast thou not heard from afar, it I made, From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becometh a desolation, Ruinous heaps are fenced cities,

26 And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up, They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn — before it hath risen 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 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 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.