2 Kings 19:24-26

The Voice

²⁴    I made wells in the ground
        and quenched my thirst with foreign waters;
    With the bottom of my feet I soaked up
        every last drop of Egypt’s rivers.’

²⁵    Don’t you know?
        I did this thing a long time ago;
    From the beginning, I planned it.
        I have now done it,
    So that you might cause strong cities
        to turn into piles of rubble.
²⁶    Those who lived there were weak;
        they were distressed and humiliated.
    They became like the grass that grows in the field
        and also like the green herb,
    Just like grass that grows on the roofs of houses
        but is burned by the sun before it gets too high and thick.