24. I have dug wellsand drunk foreign waters,and I dried up with the sole of my footall the streams of Egypt.’
25. “Have you not heard?Long ago I arranged it,in ancient times I formed it;now I bring it to pass,that you will turn impregnable citiesinto desolate heaps of stones.
26. Their inhabitants are powerless;they are terrified and ashamed.They are like grass of the fieldand new vegetation,grass on the roof tops,scorched before it stands.
27. “But I know your dwelling place,your going out and your coming in,and your raging against Me.
28. Because you have raged against Me,and your self-assuredness has come up to My ears,I will put My hook in your noseand My bridle on your lips,and I will turn you backon the way by which you came.