hSee Judg. 9:15
2 Kings 19:21-28
21This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:“She despises you, she scorns you—
athe virgin daughter of Zion;
she bwags her head behind you—
the daughter of Jerusalem.
22 “Whom have you cmocked and dreviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
Against ethe Holy One of Israel!
23 fBy your messengers you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, g‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of hLebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses;
I entered its farthest lodging place,
its most ifruitful forest.
24I dug wells
and drank foreign waters,
and I dried up with the sole of my foot
all the streams jof Egypt.’
25 “Have you not heard
that kI determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what lnow I bring to pass,
that you should turn fortified cities
into heaps of ruins,
26while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become mlike plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted before it is grown.
27 “But I know your sitting down
nand your going out and coming in,
and your raging against me.
28Because you have raged against me
and your complacency has come into my ears,
I will oput my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and pI will turn you back on the way
by which you came.
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