Isaiah 37:27

Isaiah 37:27

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.” ’

30 “This shall be a sign to you:
You shall eat this year such as grows of itself,
And the second year what springs from the same;
Also in the third year sow and reap,
Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.

31 And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah
Shall again take root downward,
And bear fruit upward.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Therefore—not because of thy power, but because I made them unable to withstand thee.

grass—which easily withers (Isaiah 40:6; Psalms 37:2).

on . . . housetops—which having little earth to nourish it fades soonest (Psalms 129:6-8).

corn blasted before it be grown up—SMITH translates, "The cornfield (frail and tender), before the corn is grown."

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