25. I have dug wells,have drunk water in foreign lands.With my own feet, I dried up all of Egypt’s streams."
26. Haven’t you heard?I set this up long ago;I planned it in the distant past!Now I have made it happen,making fortified cities collapse into piles of rubble.
27. Their citizens have lost their power;they are frightened and dismayed.They’ve become like plants in a field,tender green shoots,the grass on rooftops,blasted by the east wind.
28. I know where you are,how you go out and come in,and how you rage against me.
29. Because you rage against me and because your pride has reached my ears,I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth.I will make you go back the same way you came.
30. Now this will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows by itself. Next year you will eat what grows from that. But in the third year, plant seed and harvest it; plant vineyards and eat their fruit.