27 Therefore their inhabitants were [a]powerless,
They were shattered and put to shame;
They were like the (A)vegetation of the field and the green grass,
Like (B)grass on the housetops [b]that is scorched before it has grown.
28 But I (C)know your sitting down,
Your going out, your coming in,
And your raging against Me.
29 Because of your raging against Me
And because your (D)complacency has come up to My ears,
I will put My (E)hook in your nose
And My (F)bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back (G)by the way that you came.

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  1. Isaiah 37:27 Lit short of hand
  2. Isaiah 37:27 As in DSS and 2 Kin 19:26; MT and as a terraced field

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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  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