Isaiah 37:25
Good News Translation
You boasted that you dug wells and drank water in foreign lands, and that the feet of your soldiers tramped the Nile River dry.

New Revised Standard Version
I dug wells and drank waters, I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.’

Contemporary English Version
I dried up every stream in the land of Egypt, and I drank water from wells I had dug."

New American Bible
I myself dug wells and drank foreign water; Drying up all the rivers of Egypt beneath the soles of my feet.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.

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I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.

with the sole

Isaiah 36:12 And Rabsaces said to them: Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee, to speak all these words; and not rather to the men that sit on the wall; that they may eat their own dung, and drink their urine with you?

1 Kings 20:10 And the messengers returning brought him word. And he sent again, and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more may they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

2 Kings 19:23,24 By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the top of Libanus, and have cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees. And I have entered into the furthest parts thereof, and the forest of its Carmel. . . .

besieged.

Context
The Fall of Sennacherib Prophesied
24By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord: and hast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the top of Libanus: and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees, and will enter to the top of its height, to the forest of its Carmel. 25I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.26Hast thou not heard what I have done to him of old? from the days of old I have formed it: and now I have brought it to effect: and it hath come to pass that hills fighting together, and fenced cities should be destroyed.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:10
For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.

1 Kings 20:10
And the messengers returning brought him word. And he sent again, and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more may they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

Isaiah 19:6
And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.

Isaiah 37:24
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