Parallel Verses
- Amplified Bible - “I [the Lord] have cut off and destroyed nations [as a warning to Judah]; Their corner towers (battlements) are in ruins. I have made their streets desolate So that no one passes by; Their cities are destroyed So that there is no man, there is no inhabitant.
- 新标点和合本 - “我耶和华已经除灭列国的民； 他们的城楼毁坏。 我使他们的街道荒凉，以致无人经过； 他们的城邑毁灭，以致无人， 也无居民。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - “我已经除灭列国， 使他们的城楼荒废。 我使他们街道荒凉， 无人经过； 他们的城镇毁坏， 没有人，没有居民。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - “我已经除灭列国， 使他们的城楼荒废。 我使他们街道荒凉， 无人经过； 他们的城镇毁坏， 没有人，没有居民。
- 当代译本 - “我已消灭列国， 摧毁他们的城楼， 使他们的街道荒废，没有路人； 他们的城邑沦为废墟，杳无人迹，没有居民。
- 圣经新译本 - 我耶和华已经剪除列国， 他们的城楼被毁； 我已经使他们的街道荒凉， 以致杳无人迹； 他们的城市荒废，以致无人存留，无人居住。
- 中文标准译本 - 我除灭了列国， 他们的城楼被摧毁； 我使他们的街道荒凉，无人经过。 他们的城镇被毁灭， 没有人烟，无人居住。
- 现代标点和合本 - “我耶和华已经除灭列国的民， 他们的城楼毁坏。 我使他们的街道荒凉，以致无人经过。 他们的城邑毁灭，以致无人， 也无居民。
- 和合本（拼音版） - “我耶和华已经除灭列国的民， 他们的城楼毁坏， 我使他们的街道荒凉，以致无人经过； 他们的城邑毁灭，以致无人， 也无居民。
- New International Version - “I have destroyed nations; their strongholds are demolished. I have left their streets deserted, with no one passing through. Their cities are laid waste; they are deserted and empty.
- New International Reader's Version - The Lord says to his people, “I have destroyed other nations. I have wiped out their forts. I have left their streets deserted. No one walks along them. Their cities are destroyed. They are deserted and empty.
- English Standard Version - “I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.
- New Living Translation - “I have wiped out many nations, devastating their fortress walls and towers. Their streets are now deserted; their cities lie in silent ruin. There are no survivors— none at all.
- The Message - “So I cut off the godless nations. I knocked down their defense posts, Filled her roads with rubble so no one could get through. Her cities were bombed-out ruins, unlivable and unlived in.
- Christian Standard Bible - I have cut off nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have laid waste their streets, with no one to pass through. Their cities lie devastated, without a person, without an inhabitant.
- New American Standard Bible - “I have eliminated nations; Their corner towers are deserted. I have laid waste their streets, With no one passing by; Their cities have been laid waste, Without a person, without an inhabitant.
- New King James Version - “I have cut off nations, Their fortresses are devastated; I have made their streets desolate, With none passing by. Their cities are destroyed; There is no one, no inhabitant.
- American Standard Version - I have cut off nations; their battlements are desolate; I have made their streets waste, so that none passeth by; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
- King James Version - I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
- New English Translation - “I destroyed nations; their walled cities are in ruins. I turned their streets into ruins; no one passes through them. Their cities are desolate; no one lives there.
- World English Bible - I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
- 新標點和合本 - 我－耶和華已經除滅列國的民； 他們的城樓毀壞。 我使他們的街道荒涼，以致無人經過； 他們的城邑毀滅，以致無人， 也無居民。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 「我已經除滅列國， 使他們的城樓荒廢。 我使他們街道荒涼， 無人經過； 他們的城鎮毀壞， 沒有人，沒有居民。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 「我已經除滅列國， 使他們的城樓荒廢。 我使他們街道荒涼， 無人經過； 他們的城鎮毀壞， 沒有人，沒有居民。
- 當代譯本 - 「我已消滅列國， 摧毀他們的城樓， 使他們的街道荒廢，沒有路人； 他們的城邑淪為廢墟，杳無人跡，沒有居民。
- 聖經新譯本 - 我耶和華已經剪除列國， 他們的城樓被毀； 我已經使他們的街道荒涼， 以致杳無人跡； 他們的城市荒廢，以致無人存留，無人居住。
- 呂振中譯本 - 『我剪滅了列國； 他們的城角樓荒涼； 我使他們的街道荒廢， 全無經過的人； 他們的城市被毁壞， 沒有一人， 沒有居民。
- 中文標準譯本 - 我除滅了列國， 他們的城樓被摧毀； 我使他們的街道荒涼，無人經過。 他們的城鎮被毀滅， 沒有人煙，無人居住。
- 現代標點和合本 - 「我耶和華已經除滅列國的民， 他們的城樓毀壞。 我使他們的街道荒涼，以致無人經過。 他們的城邑毀滅，以致無人， 也無居民。
- 文理和合譯本 - 我曾翦滅列邦、使其堞樓闃寂、街衢荒涼、無人經之、其邑被毀、寂然無人、無居之者、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 我耶和華滅列邦、毀城邑、使屋隅傾圯、逵衢荒寂、無人履之、無人居之、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主曰、 我翦滅列邦、使其堞樓傾圮、使其街衢荒蕪、無人來往、其城邑盡毀、無人在、 無人在或作以致無人 無居民、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - «Exterminé naciones; quedaron desolados sus bastiones. Dejé sus calles desiertas, y nadie pasa por ellas. Quedaron arrasadas sus ciudades, sin ningún habitante.
- 현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서 말씀하신다. “내가 여러 나라를 멸망시켰으므로 요새들이 무너지고 말았다. 내가 그들의 거리를 적막하게 하여 그리로 지나다니는 자가 없게 하였으므로 그 모든 성들이 황폐해져서 거기에 사는 자가 없다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - – Я истребил народы и разрушил их крепости; опустошил их улицы – никто по ним не проходит. Города их разорены, не осталось в них жителей, нет никого.
- Восточный перевод - – Я истребил народы и разрушил их крепости; опустошил их улицы – никто по ним не проходит. Города их разорены, не осталось в них жителей, нет никого.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - – Я истребил народы и разрушил их крепости; опустошил их улицы – никто по ним не проходит. Города их разорены, не осталось в них жителей, нет никого.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - – Я истребил народы и разрушил их крепости; опустошил их улицы – никто по ним не проходит. Города их разорены, не осталось в них жителей, нет никого.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - J’ai éliminé des nations, démoli leurs tours fortes, j’ai dévasté leurs rues, et nul n’y passe plus. Voilà leurs villes ravagées, il n’y a plus personne, ╵plus un seul habitant.
- リビングバイブル - 「わたしは多くの国を切り捨て、 その全領域を荒廃させた。 通りは荒れはてて静まり返り、町々は、 何が起こったかを思い出す者は 一人も残らないまま見捨てられた。
- Nova Versão Internacional - “Eliminei nações; suas fortificações estão devastadas. Deixei desertas as suas ruas. Suas cidades estão destruídas; ninguém foi deixado; ninguém!
- Hoffnung für alle - Der Herr sagt: »Ich habe ganze Völker vernichtet und ihre Festungen niedergerissen. Die Städte sind zerstört und menschenleer, niemand geht mehr durch die Straßen.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chúa Hằng Hữu phán: “Ta đã tiêu diệt nhiều nước, hủy phá các tháp cao, lũy mạnh. Ta làm cho các phố xá hoang vắng không một người lai vãng. Các thành phố nó điêu tàn, không còn ai cư trú.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “เราได้กำจัดประชาชาติทั้งหลายเสีย ที่มั่นของเขาถูกทำลายล้าง เราทำให้ถนนหนทางของเขาร้างเปล่า ไม่มีใครผ่านไปมา เมืองต่างๆ ของเขาถูกทำลาย ไม่มีใครเหลืออยู่เลย ไม่เหลือสักคน
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - “เราได้ตัดขาดบรรดาประชาชาติ หลักยึดของพวกเขาพังพินาศ เราได้ทำให้ถนนเป็นที่ร้าง ไม่มีใครเดินผ่านไปมาได้ เมืองทั้งหลายของพวกเขาถูกทำลายจนไม่เหลือแม้แต่ซาก ไม่มีผู้ชายสักคน ไม่มีผู้อยู่อาศัยสักคน
Cross Reference
- Jeremiah 25:18 - Jerusalem and the cities of Judah [being most guilty because their privileges were greatest], its kings and princes, to make them a horror, a ruin, a hissing and a curse, as it is to this day;
- Jeremiah 25:19 - Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, all his people,
- Jeremiah 25:20 - and all the foreign (mixed) population, all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (and [their cities of] Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);
- Jeremiah 25:21 - Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon;
- Jeremiah 25:22 - all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the islands and the coastlands across the [Mediterranean] Sea;
- Jeremiah 25:23 - Dedan, Tema, Buz [the neighboring tribes north of Arabia], and all who clip off the side-growth of their hair;
- Jeremiah 25:24 - all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign population who live in the desert;
- Jeremiah 25:25 - all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam (Persia), and all the kings of Media;
- Jeremiah 25:26 - all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another—and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. And the king of Sheshach (Babylon) shall drink after them.
- Nahum 2:1 - The one who scatters has come up against you [Nineveh]. Man the fortress and ramparts, watch the road; Strengthen your back [prepare for battle], summon all your strength.
- Nahum 2:2 - For the Lord will restore the splendor and majesty of Jacob Like the splendor of [ancient and united] Israel, Even though destroyers have destroyed them And ruined their vine branches.
- Nahum 2:3 - The shields of his soldiers [of Media and Babylon] are colored red; The warriors are dressed in scarlet. The chariots blaze with fire of [flashing] steel When he is prepared to march, And the cypress spears are brandished [for battle].
- Zechariah 7:14 - “but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after they had gone, so that no one passed through or returned, for they [by their sins] had made the pleasant land desolate and deserted.”
- Isaiah 37:11 - Listen carefully, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, utterly destroying them. So will you be rescued?
- Isaiah 37:12 - Did the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed rescue them— Gozan, Haran [of Mesopotamia], Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?
- Isaiah 37:13 - Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad [of northern Syria], the king of the city of Sepharvaim, [the king of] Hena, or [the king of] Ivvah?’ ”
- Isaiah 15:1 - The [mournful, inspired] oracle ( a burden to be carried) concerning Moab: Because in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined; Because in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.
- Isaiah 15:2 - They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba; Everyone’s head is shaved, and every beard is cut off [in mourning].
- Isaiah 15:3 - In their streets they have wrapped themselves with sackcloth; On their [flat] housetops and in their open squares Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears.
- Isaiah 15:4 - Heshbon and Elealeh [cities claimed by Moab] cry out; Their voice is heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out; Moab’s soul trembles within him.
- Isaiah 15:5 - My heart cries out for Moab; His fugitives are [fleeing] as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah. For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping; For on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their destruction.
- Isaiah 15:6 - For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Indeed the grass is withered, the new growth dies; There is no green thing.
- Isaiah 15:7 - Therefore the abundance which they have acquired and stored away They carry off over the Brook of the Willows.
- Isaiah 15:8 - For the cry of distress has echoed around the territory of Moab; The wailing goes as far as Eglaim and the mournful cry to Beer-elim.
- Isaiah 15:9 - For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; Yet I will bring even more woes on Dimon— A lion upon those of Moab who escape and upon the remnant of the land.
- Isaiah 10:1 - Woe (judgment is coming) to those [judges] who issue evil statutes, And to those [magistrates] who constantly record unjust and oppressive decisions,
- Isaiah 10:2 - So as to deprive the needy of justice And rob the poor of My people of rightful claims, So that widows may be their spoil And that they may plunder the fatherless.
- Isaiah 10:3 - Now what will you do in the day of [God’s] punishment, And in the storm of devastation which will come from far away? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your wealth [for safekeeping]?
- Isaiah 10:4 - Nothing remains but to crouch among the captives Or fall [dead] among the slain [on the battlefield]. In spite of all this, God’s anger does not turn away, But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].
- Isaiah 10:5 - Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger [against Israel], The staff in whose hand is My indignation and fury [against Israel’s disobedience]!
- Isaiah 10:6 - I send Assyria against a godless nation And commission it against the people of My wrath To take the spoil and to seize the plunder, And to trample them down like mud in the streets.
- Isaiah 10:7 - Yet it is not Assyria’s intention [to do My will], Nor does it plan so in its heart, But instead it is its purpose to destroy And to cut off many nations.
- Isaiah 10:8 - For Assyria says, “Are not my princes all kings?
- Isaiah 10:9 - Is not Calno [conquered] like Carchemish [on the Euphrates]? Is not Hamath [subdued] like Arpad [her neighbor]? Is not Samaria [in Israel] like Damascus [in Aram]?
- Isaiah 10:10 - As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, Whose carved images were greater and more feared than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
- Isaiah 10:11 - Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her images Just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?” [declares Assyria].
- Isaiah 10:12 - So when the Lord has completed all His work [of judgment] on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit [the thoughts, the declarations, and the actions] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the haughtiness of his pride.”
- Isaiah 10:13 - For the Assyrian king has said, “I have done this by the power of my [own] hand and by my wisdom, For I have understanding and skill. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples And have plundered their treasures; Like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.
- Isaiah 10:14 - My hand has found the wealth of the people like a nest, And as one gathers eggs that are abandoned, so I have gathered all the earth; And there was not one that flapped its wing, or that opened its beak and chirped.”
- Isaiah 10:15 - Is the axe able to lift itself over the one who chops with it? Is the saw able to magnify itself over the one who wields it? That would be like a club moving those who lift it, Or like a staff raising him who is not [made of] wood [like itself]!
- Isaiah 10:16 - Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, will send a wasting disease among the stout warriors of Assyria; And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.
- Isaiah 10:17 - And the Light of Israel will become a fire and His Holy One a flame, And it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and briars in a single day.
- Isaiah 10:18 - The Lord will consume the glory of Assyria’s forest and of its fruitful garden, both soul and body, And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
- Isaiah 10:19 - And the remaining trees of Assyria’s forest will be so few in number That a child could write them down.
- Isaiah 10:20 - Now in that day the remnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 10:21 - A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
- Isaiah 10:22 - For though your people, O Israel, may be as the sand of the sea, Only a remnant within them will return; The destruction is determined [it is decided and destined for completion], overflowing with justice (righteous punishment).
- Isaiah 10:23 - For the Lord, the God of hosts, will execute a complete destruction, one that is decreed, in the midst of all the land.
- Isaiah 10:24 - Therefore, the Lord God of hosts says this, “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian who strikes you with a rod and lifts up his staff against you, as [the king of] Egypt did.
- Isaiah 10:25 - For yet a very little while and My indignation [against you] will be fulfilled and My anger will be directed toward the destruction of the Assyrian.”
- Isaiah 10:26 - The Lord of hosts will brandish a whip against them like the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the [Red] Sea and He will lift it up the way He did in [the flight from] Egypt.
- Isaiah 10:27 - So it will be in that day, that the burden of the Assyrian will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because of the fat.
- Isaiah 10:28 - The Assyrian has come against Aiath [in Judah], He has passed through Migron [with his army]; At Michmash he stored his equipment.
- Isaiah 10:29 - They have gone through the pass, saying, “Geba will be our lodging place for the night.” Ramah trembles, and Gibeah [the city] of Saul has fled.
- Isaiah 10:30 - Cry aloud with your voice [in consternation], O Daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laishah! Answer her, Anathoth!
- Isaiah 10:31 - Madmenah has fled; The inhabitants of Gebim have fled [with their belongings] to safety.
- Isaiah 10:32 - Yet today the Assyrian will halt at Nob [the city of priests]; He shakes his fist at the mountain of the Daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 10:33 - Listen carefully, the Lord, the God of hosts, will lop off the [beautiful] boughs with terrifying force; The tall in stature will be cut down And the lofty will be abased and humiliated.
- Isaiah 10:34 - He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe, And Lebanon (the Assyrian) will fall by the Mighty One.
- Isaiah 19:1 - The [mournful, inspired] oracle ( a burden to be carried) concerning Egypt: Listen carefully, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt; The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence, And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.
- Isaiah 19:2 - “So I will provoke Egyptians against Egyptians; And they will fight, each one against his brother and each one against his neighbor, City against city, kingdom against kingdom.
- Isaiah 19:3 - Then the spirit of the Egyptians will become exhausted within them and emptied out; And I will confuse their strategy, So that they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, And mediums and soothsayers.
- Isaiah 19:4 - And I will hand over the Egyptians to a hard and cruel master, And a mighty king will rule over them,” declares the Lord God of hosts.
- Isaiah 19:5 - The waters from the sea will dry up, And the river will be parched and dry.
- Isaiah 19:6 - The canals will become foul-smelling, The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up, The reeds and the rushes will rot away.
- Isaiah 19:7 - The meadows by the Nile, by the edge of the Nile, And all the sown fields of the Nile Will become dry, be blown away, and be no more.
- Isaiah 19:8 - The fishermen will lament (cry out in grief), And all those who cast a hook into the Nile will mourn, And those who spread nets upon the waters will languish.
- Isaiah 19:9 - Moreover, those who make linen from combed flax And those who weave white cloth will be ashamed.
- Isaiah 19:10 - [Those who are] the pillars and foundations of Egypt will be crushed; And all those who work for wages will be grieved in soul.
- Isaiah 19:11 - The princes of Zoan are complete fools; The counsel of the Pharaoh’s wisest advisors has become stupid. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings?”
- Isaiah 19:12 - Where then are your wise men? Please let them tell you, And let them understand what the Lord of hosts Has purposed against Egypt [if they can].
- Isaiah 19:13 - The princes of Zoan have acted like fools, The princes of Memphis are deluded [and entertain false hope]; Those who are the cornerstone of her tribes Have led Egypt astray.
- Isaiah 19:14 - The Lord has mixed a spirit of distortion within her; Her leaders have caused Egypt to stagger in all that she does, As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
- Isaiah 19:15 - There will be no work for Egypt Which head or tail, [high] palm branch or [low] bulrush, may do.
- Isaiah 19:16 - In that day the Egyptians will become like [helpless] women, and they will tremble and be frightened because of the waving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which He is going to wave over them.
- Isaiah 19:17 - The land of Judah [Assyria’s ally] will become a terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be in dread of it, because of the purpose of the Lord of hosts which He is planning against Egypt.
- Isaiah 19:18 - In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of [the Hebrews of] Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord of hosts. One [of them] will be called the City of Destruction.
- Isaiah 19:19 - In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a memorial stone to the Lord near its border.
- Isaiah 19:20 - It will become a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of oppressors, and He will send them a Savior, a [Great] Defender, and He will rescue them.
- Isaiah 19:21 - And so the Lord will make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know [heed, honor, and cherish] the Lord in that day. They will even worship with sacrifices [of animals] and offerings [of produce]; they will make a vow to the Lord and fulfill it.
- Isaiah 19:22 - The Lord will strike Egypt, striking but healing it; so they will return to the Lord, and He will respond to them and heal them.
- Isaiah 19:23 - In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come into Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship and serve [the Lord] with the Assyrians.
- Isaiah 19:24 - In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and with Assyria [in a Messianic league], a blessing in the midst of the earth,
- Isaiah 19:25 - whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My heritage.”
- Isaiah 37:36 - And the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when the [surviving] men got up early the next morning, they saw all the dead.
- Leviticus 26:31 - I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your sweet and soothing aromas [of offerings by fire].
- Zephaniah 2:5 - Woe (judgment is coming) to the inhabitants of the seacoast, The nation of the Cherethites [in Philistia]! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; I will destroy you So that no inhabitant will be left.
- Jeremiah 25:9 - behold (hear this), I will send for all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant [to enact My plan], and I will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing [that is, an object of warning and ridicule] and an everlasting desolation.
- Jeremiah 25:10 - Moreover, I will take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones [grinding meal] and the light of the lamp [to light the night].
- Jeremiah 25:11 - This whole land will be a waste and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- 1 Corinthians 10:11 - Now these things happened to them as an example and warning [to us]; they were written for our instruction [to admonish and equip us], upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
- Isaiah 37:24 - Through your servants you have taunted and defied the Lord, And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotest parts of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars and its choicest cypress trees; And I will go to its remotest height, its most luxuriant and thickest forest.
- Isaiah 37:25 - I dug wells and drank [foreign] waters, And with the sole of my feet I dried up All the canals [of the Nile] of Egypt.’
- Isaiah 37:26 - Have you not heard [says the God of Israel] That I did it long ago, That I planned it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, That you [king of Assyria] would [be My instrument to] turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
- 1 Corinthians 10:6 - Now these things [the warnings and admonitions] took place as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did.