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25 “Have you not heard
    that (A)I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
    what (B)now I bring to pass,
that you should turn fortified cities
    into heaps of ruins,
26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
    are dismayed and confounded,
and have become (C)like plants of the field
    and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
    blighted before it is grown.
27 “But I know your sitting down
    (D)and your going out and coming in,
    and your raging against me.

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25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

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