2 Kings 19:25

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 make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,

2 Kings 19:25 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 19:25

(See Gill on 2 Kings 19:1)

2 Kings 19:25 In-Context

23 By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, "With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest retreat, its densest forest.

24 I dug wells and drank foreign waters, 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 make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,

26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded; they 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 rising and your sitting, your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.