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OET (OET-RV)Haven’t you heard that I made planslong ago— ⇔ that what I previously planned, I’m now making it happen? ⇔ Fortified cities will collapse into heaps of rubble.
Key: khaki:verbs, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
BrLXXἜπλασα αὐτὴν, συνήγαγον αὐτήν· καὶ ἐγενήθη εἰς ἐπάρσεις ἀποικεσιῶν μαχίμων πόλεις ὀχυράς. (Eplasa autaʸn, sunaʸgagon autaʸn; kai egenaʸthaʸ eis eparseis apoikesiōn maⱪimōn poleis oⱪuras. )
BrTrI have brought about the matter, I have brought it to a conclusion; and it is come to the [fn]destruction of the bands of warlike prisoners, even of strong cities.
ULTDid you not hear ⇔ from long ago, I put it; ⇔ from days of old, and I planned it? ⇔ Now I have brought it, and it will happen ⇔ by laying waste into heaps of ruins ⇔ fortified cities.
USTBut I reply, ‘Have you never heard that long ago ⇔ I planned that those things would happen? ⇔ I planned it long ago, ⇔ and now I have been causing it to occur. ⇔ I planned that your army ⇔ would have the power to capture many cities ⇔ that were surrounded by high walls, ⇔ and cause them to become piles of rubble.
BSBHave you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble. ⇔ ⇔ ⇔ ⇔ ⇔
MSBHave you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble. ⇔ ⇔ ⇔ ⇔ ⇔
WEBBEHaven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
NETCertainly you must have heard! ⇔ Long ago I worked it out, ⇔ In ancient times I planned it; ⇔ and now I am bringing it to pass. ⇔ The plan is this: ⇔ Fortified cities will crash ⇔ into heaps of ruins.
LSVHave you not heard from afar [that] I made it, From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becomes a desolation, Ruinous heaps [are] fortified cities,
FBVThe Lord replies,[fn] “Haven't you heard? I decided it long ago; I planned it in the olden days. Now I am making sure it happens—that you are to knock down fortified towns into piles of rubble.
T4T ¶ ‘But I reply, “Have you never heard that long ago I determined that those things would happen? ⇔ I planned it long ago, ⇔ and now I have been causing it to happen. ⇔ I planned that your army would have the power to capture many cities that were surrounded by high walls, ⇔ and cause them to become piles of rubble.
BBEHas it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
JPSHast thou not heard? long ago I made it, in ancient times I fashioned it; now have I brought it to pass, yea, it is done; that fortified cities should be laid waste into ruinous heaps.
ASVHast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
DRAHast thou not heard what I have done from the beginning? from the days of old I have formed it, and now I have brought it to effect: that fenced cities of fighting men should be turned to heaps of ruin:
YLTHast thou not heard from afar, it I made, From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becometh a desolation, Ruinous heaps [are] fenced cities,
DrbyHast thou not heard long ago that I have done it? And that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities [into] ruinous heaps.
RVHast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. (Hast thou/you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that thou/you shouldest/should be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. )
SLTDidst thou not hear from remoteness I made it from days before and I formed it? and now I brought it in, and thou wilt be to set fortified cities for desolate ruins.
WbstrHast 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 shouldst be to lay waste fortified cities in ruinous heaps.
KJB-1769Hast 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 fenced cities into ruinous heaps.[fn] (Hast thou/you 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/you shouldest/should be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. )
19.25long…: or, how I have made it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? should I now bring it to be laid waste, and fenced cities to be ruinous heaps?
KJB-1611[fn]Hast thou not heard long agoe, how I haue done it, and of ancient times that I haue formed it? now haue I brought it to passe, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heapes. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation and footnotes))
19:25Or, hast thou not heard how I haue made it long agoe, and formed it of ancient times? should I now bring it to be laide waste, and fenced cities to be ruinous heapes?
GnvaHast thou not heard, howe I haue of olde time made it, and haue formed it long ago? and should I nowe bring it, that it should be destroyed, and laid on ruinous heapes, as cities defensed? (Hast thou/you not heard, how I have of old time made it, and have formed it long ago? and should I now bring it, that it should be destroyed, and laid on ruinous heaps, as cities defensed? )
ClVgNumquid non audisti quid ab initio fecerim? ex diebus antiquis plasmavi illud, et nunc adduxi: eruntque in ruinam collium pugnantium civitates munitæ.[fn] (Is_it not/no you_heard what away at_first/in_the_beginning I_did? from days ancient plasmavi it/this/that, and now adduxi: they_will_beque in/into/on ruin neckumfightntium cities fortified. )
19.25Nunquid. ID. Hæc ex persona Domini, etc., usque ad quod tuam ferocitatem domet, et te reducat in Assyrios.
19.25Nunquid. ID. This from person Master, etc., until to that your(sg) ferocitatemdomet, and you(sg) reducat in/into/on Assyrios.
19:21-28 The phrase virgin daughter is often used regarding civic identity (Isa 23:12; 37:22; 47:1; Jer 18:13). Here, the metaphor implies that as a young maiden is rescued from her attacker, so God will rescue Jerusalem. The Lord’s answer was delivered as a “taunt song,” a common literary form in the ancient Near East that rejoiced over an enemy’s humiliation (cp. Isa 14:3-20).
(Some words not found in UHB: ?,not you(ms)_paid_attention at,from,long_ago DOM=her/it determined at,in,days_of old and,planned,it now brought_~_topass,it and,make to,crash heaps ruins cities fortified )
To make the point strongly this question assumes the listener knows the answer. Alternate translation: “Surely you know how … times.”
(Occurrence 0) impregnable cities
(Some words not found in UHB: ?,not you(ms)_paid_attention at,from,long_ago DOM=her/it determined at,in,days_of old and,planned,it now brought_~_topass,it and,make to,crash heaps ruins cities fortified )
Alternate translation: “cities that cannot be captured” or “cities surrounded by high walls”
The harrowing experience of the attack on Judah by King Sennacherib of Assyria during Hezekiah’s reign is recorded by three different writers of Scripture and even by Sennacherib himself. Many scholars also suspect that this event formed the basis for Herodotus’s story regarding an army of mice eating the bow strings of the Assyrian army during their campaign against the Egyptians (Histories, 2.141). The origins of this event stretch back into the reign of Hezekiah’s father Ahaz, who enticed the Assyrians to attack Israel and Aram in exchange for making Judah a vassal of Assyria (2 Kings 16-17; 2 Chronicles 28; Isaiah 7-8; also see “The Final Days of the Northern Kingdom of Israel” map). Judah continued to be a vassal of Assyria through the early part of Hezekiah’s reign, but Hezekiah also quietly made extensive preparations to throw off the yoke of Assyria one day (2 Kings 18:1-12; 1 Chronicles 4:39-43; 2 Chronicles 29-31; also see “Hezekiah Strengthens Judah” map). Hezekiah also appears to have been hoping for support from Babylon and Egypt regarding his efforts to revolt against Assyria’s rule, but the prophet Isaiah warned Judah against placing their hopes in these foreign powers (Isaiah 30:1-5; 31:1-3; 39:1-8; 40:10-15; 2 Kings 20:12-19). After a few years spent quashing rebellion among the Babylonians, the Kassites, and the Medes in the east, Sennacherib turned his sights westward and began a campaign to subdue the various vassal nations that were refusing to submit to Assyria’s rule any longer. He first reconquered the Phoenician cities of Sidon and Tyre and then moved south to Philistia. He subdued Joppa, Beth-dagon, Bene-berak, and Azor and then moved to capture the cities of the Shephelah, which guarded the entrances to the valleys leading into the central hill country of Judah. While Sennacherib was attacking Lachish he sent his officers to demand Hezekiah’s surrender. This may be the Assyrian advance upon Jerusalem from the north described in Isaiah 10:28-32, but this is not certain (see “Assyria Advances on Jerusalem” map). Hezekiah sent officers back to Sennacherib with gold and silver taken from Temple and the royal treasury, but he would not surrender. The officers then traveled to Libnah to meet with Sennacherib, for he gone to fight there by that time. In the meantime King Tirhakah of Cush, who was ruling over Egypt at this time, came to attack Sennacherib, so Sennacherib sent his officials back to Hezekiah with a message that Jerusalem would be taken if he resisted. Hezekiah laid the letter from the officials before the Lord and prayed, and the Lord sent word through the prophet Isaiah that Jerusalem would not be taken. Then that very night the angel of the Lord killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers (probably those with Sennacherib fighting the Egyptians), and Sennacherib went back to Assyria. There while he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch, Sennacherib’s sons killed him and fled to Ararat (see “Ararat” map).
