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. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up." - Isaiah 37:26-27

 

ORIGINAL CAPTIONS: Corn stands in floodwaters June 23, near St. Paul, MO. More than a week of flooding in the country's heartland may be the regions' biggest economic disaster in decades, with thousands of acres of farmland from Minnesota to Arkansas damaged for the season. (Joe Raedie, Getty)