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27 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 blighted before it be grown up.

28 “‘But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out and thy coming in, and thy rage against Me.

29 Because thy rage against Me and thy tumult have come up into Mine ears, therefore will I put My hook in thy nose and My bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.’

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27 Their people, drained of power,
    are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,
like grass(A) sprouting on the roof,(B)
    scorched[a] before it grows up.

28 “But I know where you are
    and when you come and go(C)
    and how you rage(D) against me.
29 Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence(E) has reached my ears,
I will put my hook(F) in your nose(G)
    and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return
    by the way you came.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 37:27 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Kings 19:26); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text roof / and terraced fields