25. I dug wellsand drank waters,to dry up with the sole of my footall the streams of Egypt.
26. “‘Have you not heardthat I determined it long ago?I planned from days of oldwhat now I bring to pass,that you should make fortified citiescrash into heaps of ruins,
27. while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,are dismayed and confounded,and have become like plants of the fieldand like tender grass,like grass on the housetops,blighted before it is grown.
28. “‘I know your sitting downand your going out and coming in,and your raging against me.