King James Version
Isaiah 37:25 in the King James Version says “I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. besi...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 37 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. besieged: or, fenced and closed”
Isaiah 37:25 · KJV
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel. By thy: Heb. By the hand of thy servants the tall: Heb. the tallness of the cedars thereof and the choice of the fir trees thereof the forest: or, the forest and his fruitful field
I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. besieged: or, fenced and closed
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps. Hast: or, Hast thou not heard how I have made it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? should I now bring it to be laid waste, and defenced cities to be ruinous heaps?
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up. of small: Heb. short of hand
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“I have digged”
H6979to trench; by implication, to throw forth; to wall up, whether literal (to build a wall) or figurative (to estop)
“have I dried up”
H2717to parch (through drought) i.e., (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
“and with the sole”
H3709the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-
“of my feet”
H6471a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all the rivers”
H2975a channel, e.g., a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the nile, as the one river of egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the tigris, as the m
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