2 Kings 19:25-27

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁵ “Have you not heard
    that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
    what now I bring to pass,
that you should turn fortified cities
    into heaps of ruins,
²⁶ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
    are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field,
    and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops;
    blighted before it is grown?

²⁷ “But I know your sitting down
    and your going out and coming in,
    and your raging against me.