Isaiah 37 · Verse 25

Isaiah 37:25

I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
Isaiah 37:25, King James Version

Isaiah 37:25 in other translations

BSBI have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
WEBI have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
ASVI have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
YLTI--I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
DARBYI have digged and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.
BBEI have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
WebsterI have digged, and drank water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

What does Isaiah 37:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
25. digged, and drunk water--In 2Ki 19:24, it is "strange waters." I have marched into foreign lands where I had to dig wells for the supply of my armies; even the natural destitution of water there did not impede my march. rivers of ... besieged places--rather, "the streams (artificial canals from the Nile) of Egypt." "With the sole of my foot," expresses that as soon as his vast armies marched into a region, the streams were drunk up by them; or rather, that the rivers proved no obstruction to the onward march of his armies. So Is 19:4-6, referring to Egypt, "the river--brooks of defense--shall be dried up." Horsley, translates the Hebrew for "besieged places," "rocks."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 25 Water "Strange waters" - The word זרים zarim, strange, lost out of the Hebrew text in this place, is supplied from the other copy. A MS. supplies the word רבים rabbim, many, instead of it. With the sole of my feet - With my infantry. All the rivers of the besieged places "All the canals of fenced places" - The principal cities of Egypt, the scene of his late exploits, were chiefly defended by deep moats, canals, or large lakes, made by labor and art, with which they were surrounded. See Harmer's Observ. 2 p. 304. Claudian introduces Alaric boasting of his conquests in the same extravagant manner: - "Subsidere nostris Sub pedibus montes; arescere vidimus amnes. - Fregi Alpes, galeisque Padum victricibus hausi." De Bello Getic. 526. "The mountains have passed away under our feet; we have seen the rivers dried up. I have broken the Alps, and laden out the Po with our victorious helmets."

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Isaiah 37:25 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֲנִ֥י'a.NiIH589
קַ֖רְתִּיKar.tiI have dugH6979
וְשָׁתִ֣יתִיve.sha.Ti.tiand I have drunkH8354
מָ֑יִםMa.yimwaterH4325
וְאַחְרִב֙ve.'ach.Rivso I may dry upH2717
בְּכַף\־be.khaf-with [the] sole ofH3709
פְּעָמַ֔יpe.'a.Maifeet myH6471
כֹּ֖לkolallH3605
יְאֹרֵ֥יye.'o.Rei[the] canals ofH2975
מָצֽוֹר\׃ma.TzorEgyptH4693

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 37:25

  • 1 Kings 20:10

    And Ben–hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

  • Deuteronomy 11:10

    For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

  • Isaiah 36:12

    But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

  • 2 Kings 19:23-24

    By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel. I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
with the sole.
36:12; 1Ki 20:10; 2Ki 19:23,24
besieged. or, fenced and closed.

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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.

  • Isaiah 37:25

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

  • Isaiah 37:26

    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.

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Isaiah 37:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Yo cavé, y bebí las aguas; y con las pisadas de mis pies secaré todos los ríos de lugares atrincherados.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		J’ai creusé, et j’ai bu de l’eau; et j’ai desséché avec la plante de mes pieds tous les fleuves de Matsor…
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ich habe gegraben und Wasser getrunken; und mit der Sohle meiner Füße werde ich austrocknen alle Ströme Mazors."
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ego fodi, et bibi aquam, et exsiccavi vestigio pedis mei omnes rivos aggerum.