25 (A)Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it;
From ancient times I planned it.
(B)Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
26 ‘Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were (C)as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb,
As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.
27 ‘But (D)I know your sitting down,
And your going out and your coming in,
And your raging against Me.

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