2 Kings 19:24LXX
Orthodox Bible · LXX · Verse 24 of 37
"I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places."
In context
22Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? against the Holy of Israel.
23By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, the forest of his Carmel.
24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
25Hast thou not heard long ago I have done it, of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities ruinous heaps.
26Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were the grass of the field, and the green herb, the grass on the housetops, and blasted before it be grown up.