Isaiah 37:26 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.”

Isaiah 37:26 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Isaiah 37:26 in 6 Bible Translations

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Isaiah 37:26 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

““‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.”

Isaiah 37:26 — World English Bible

Isaiah 37:26 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. ”

Isaiah 37:26 — American Standard Version

Isaiah 37:26 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“Hast thou not heard from afar? --it I did, From days of old--that I formed it. Now, I have brought it in, And it is to make desolate, Ruinous heaps--fenced cities,”

Isaiah 37:26 — Young's Literal Translation

Isaiah 37:26 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“Hast thou not heard that long ago I did it, and that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities [into] ruinous heaps. ”

Isaiah 37:26 — Darby Translation

Isaiah 37:26 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“Hast thou not heard howe I haue of olde time made it, and haue formed it long ago? and should I now bring it, that it should be destroyed, and layde on ruinous heapes, as cities defensed?”

Isaiah 37:26 — Geneva Bible

Isaiah 37:26 in Context — Isaiah 37

24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.

25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

26 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

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 blasted before it be grown up.

28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

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