Isaiah 37:22-28

22 this is the word the LORD has spoken against him: “Virgin Daughter Zion despises and mocks you. Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.
23 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
24 By your messengers you have ridiculed the Lord. And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its junipers. I have reached its remotest heights, the finest of its forests.
25 I have dug wells in foreign lands[a]and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.’
26 “Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.
27 Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched[b] before it grows up.
28 “But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me.

Cross References 20

  • 1. S Isaiah 23:12
  • 2. S Isaiah 10:32
  • 3. S Job 16:4
  • 4. ver 4; S Numbers 15:30; Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:20,23; Daniel 7:25
  • 5. S Job 15:25
  • 6. S Isaiah 2:11
  • 7. S Isaiah 1:4; S Isaiah 12:6
  • 8. Isaiah 36:9
  • 9. Isaiah 14:13
  • 10. S 1 Kings 7:2; S Isaiah 14:8; S Isaiah 33:9
  • 11. 1 Kings 5:8-10; Isaiah 41:19; Isaiah 55:13; Isaiah 60:13; Hosea 14:8
  • 12. S Isaiah 19:6; Isaiah 44:27
  • 13. S Deuteronomy 11:10; S Isaiah 10:14; Daniel 4:30
  • 14. Acts 2:23; Acts 4:27-28; 1 Peter 2:8
  • 15. Isaiah 10:6; S Isaiah 25:1
  • 16. S Deuteronomy 13:16; S Isaiah 25:2
  • 17. S Isaiah 15:6
  • 18. Psalms 129:6
  • 19. Psalms 139:1-3
  • 20. Psalms 2:1

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:24); Masoretic Text does not have "in foreign lands."
  • [b]. Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Kings 19:26); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text "roof" / "and terraced fields"
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