24. I have dug and drunk strange water,And with the soles of my feet I have dried upAll the brooks of defense.”
25. ‘Did you not hear long agoHow I made it,From ancient times that I formed it?Now I have brought it to pass,That you should beFor crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
26. Therefore their inhabitants had little power;They were dismayed and confounded;They were as the grass of the fieldAnd the green herb,As the grass on the housetopsAnd grain blighted before it is grown.
27. ‘But I know your dwelling place,Your going out and your coming in,And your rage against Me.