25. I have dug wellsand drunk water,and with the sole of my feetI have dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’
26. “Have you not heard?Long ago I have done it,from ancient times I have formed it.Now I have brought it to pass,that you should turn fortified citiesinto ruinous heaps.
27. Therefore, their inhabitants were short of strength;they were dismayed and humiliated;they were as the grass of the fieldand as the green herb,as the grass on the housetopsis scorched before it is grown up.
28. “But I know your abode,and your going out and your comingin,and your rage against Me.
29. Because your rage against Meand your tumult have come up into My ears,therefore I will put My hook in your nose,and My bridle in your lips,and I will turn you backon the way by which you came.
30. “This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year what grows of itself,and the second year what springs from the same,and in the third year sow and reapand plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.