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2 Kings 19:25
New English Translation
2 Kings 19:25
New English Translation
25 [a] Certainly you must have heard![b]
Long ago I worked it out.
In ancient times I planned[c] it;
and now I am bringing it to pass.
The plan is this:
Fortified cities will crash
into heaps of ruins.[d]
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 19:25 tn Having quoted the Assyrian king’s arrogant words in vv. 23-24, the Lord now speaks to the king.
- 2 Kings 19:25 tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say.
- 2 Kings 19:25 tn Heb “formed.”
- 2 Kings 19:25 tn Heb “and it is to cause to crash into heaps of ruins fortified cities.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb תְּהִי (tehi) is the implied plan, referred to in the preceding lines with third feminine singular pronominal suffixes.
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