23 By thy messengers thou hast railed on the Lord, and said, By the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the top of the mountains, by the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the high cedars thereof, and the fair fir trees thereof, and I will go into the [a]lodging of his borders, and into the forest of his [b]Carmel.

24 I have dug and drunk the waters of others, and with the plant of my feet have I dried all the [c]floods closed in.

25 Hast thou not heard, how I have of old time made it, and have formed it long ago? [d]and should I now bring it, that it should be destroyed, and laid on ruinous heaps, as cities defensed?

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 19:23 Meaning, Jerusalem, which Isaiah calleth the height of his borders, to wit, of Judah, Isa. 37:24.
  2. 2 Kings 19:23 Or, pleasant country.
  3. 2 Kings 19:24 Or, the waters of cities besieged.
  4. 2 Kings 19:25 He declareth that forasmuch as he is the author and beginning of his Church, he will never suffer it utterly to be destroyed, as other cities and kingdoms.

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