Drawfor yourself waterfor the siege!Strengthenyour fortifications!Gointo the clayand treadthe mortar!Takeholdof the brickmold!
Is not Hezekiahmisleadingyou to giveyourselves over to dieby hungerand by thirst,saying,"The LORDour Godwill deliverus from the handof the kingof Assyria"?
I dug[wells] and drankwaters,And with the soleof my feetI driedup Allthe riversof Egypt.'
"Be broken,O peoples,and be shattered;And giveear,allremoteplacesof the earth.Girdyourselves, yet be shattered;Girdyourselves, yet be shattered.
Goup, you horses,and drivemadly,you chariots,That the mightymenmay marchforward:Ethiopiaand Put,that handlethe shield,And the Lydians,that handle[and] bendthe bow.
The onewhoscattershas comeup againstyou. Manthe fortress,watchthe road;Strengthenyour back,summonall[your] strength.
For the LORDwill restorethe splendorof JacobLike the splendorof Israel,Even thoughdevastatorshave devastatedthem And destroyedtheir vinebranches.
