Isaiah 37:26-28

New Living Translation

²⁶ “But have you not heard?
    I decided this long ago.
Long ago I planned it,
    and now I am making it happen.
I planned for you to crush fortified cities
    into heaps of rubble.
²⁷ That is why their people have so little power
    and are so frightened and confused.
They are as weak as grass,
    as easily trampled as tender green shoots.
They are like grass sprouting on a housetop,
    scorched^[a] before it can grow lush and tall.

²⁸ “But I know you well—
    where you stay
and when you come and go.
    I know the way you have raged against me.