Isaiah 37:26

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24 By your servants you have reproached the Lord,
And said, ‘By the multitude of my chariots
I have come up to the height of the mountains,
To the limits of Lebanon;
I will cut down its tall cedars
And its choice cypress trees;
I will enter its farthest height,
To its fruitful forest.

25 I have dug and drunk water,
And with the soles of my feet I have dried up
All the brooks of¹ defense.’

26 “Did you not hear ^along ago
How I made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power;
They were dismayed and confounded;
They were as the grass of the field
And the green herb,
As the grass on the housetops
And grain blighted before it is grown.

28 “But I know your dwelling place,
Your going out and your coming in,
And your rage against Me.

29 Because your rage against Me and your tumult
Have come up to My ears,
Therefore ^aI will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will ^bturn you back
By the way which you came.” ’

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Isaiah 37:26

Lay waste defended cities into ruinous heaps "Lay waste warlike nations; strong fenced cities" - gallim nitstsim . It is not easy to give a satisfactory account of these two words, which have greatly embarrassed all the interpreters, ancient and modern. For gallim I read goyim , as the Septuagint do in this place, . The word netsim the Vulgate renders in this place compugnantium ; in the parallel place, II Kings 19:25, pugnantium ; and the Septuagint , fighting, warlike. This rendering is as well authorized as any other that I know of; and, with the reading of the Septuagint, perfectly clears up the construction. See the margin on all the preceding verses.

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