2Ki 19:25 | NETfull | STEP | Certainly 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.

2 Kings 19:25

25 ^{▼▼ Having quoted the Assyrian king’s arrogant words in vv. 23–24, the Lord now speaks to the king.} Certainly you must have heard! ^{▼▼ Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say.}
Long ago I worked it out,
In ancient times I planned ^{▼▼ Heb “formed.”} it;
and now I am bringing it to pass.
The plan is this:
Fortified cities will crash
into heaps of ruins. ^{▼▼ Heb “and it is to cause to crash into heaps of ruins fortified cities.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb תְּהִי (t^ehi) is the implied plan, referred to in the preceding lines with third feminine singular pronominal suffixes.}