24. I dug wellsand drank foreign waters,and I dried up with the sole of my footall the streams of Egypt.’
25. “Have you not heardthat I determined it long ago?I planned from days of oldwhat now I bring to pass,that you should turn fortified citiesinto heaps of ruins,
26. 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.
27. “But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in,and your raging against me.
28. Because you have raged against meand your complacency has come into my ears,I will put my hook in your noseand my bit in your mouth,and I will turn you back on the wayby which you came.