2 Kings 19:26

26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become ¹like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.

2 Kings 19:26 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 19:26

(See Gill on 2 Kings 19:1)

2 Kings 19:26 In-Context

24 I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt. ’

25 “Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,

26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and 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 me and your complacency has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

Cross References

• 1. 19:26 Ps. 129:6