2Ki 19:23, 28, Isa 9:18, 10:33-34, Jer 21:14, Eze 20:47-48 | ESV | STEP | By your messengers you have mocked the Lord , and you have said , With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains , to the far recesses of Lebanon ; I felled its tallest cedars , its choicest cypresses ; I entered its farthest lodging place , its most fruitful forest .

j[See ver. 33 above]

k[Ezek. 31:3; Amos 2:9]

l ch. 9:25

m Prov. 1:31; Isa. 3:10

n Ezek. 20:47

o Ezek. 20:47

p Jer. 21:14

q ch. 17:24; [Luke 23:31]

r ch. 17:24; [Luke 23:31]

s ch. 21:4

t Isa. 40:5; [Isa. 30:33]

2 Kings 19:23

23 ^aBy your messengers you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, ^b‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of ^cLebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses;
I entered its farthest lodging place,
its most ^dfruitful forest.

2 Kings 19:28

28 Because you have raged against me
and your complacency has come into my ears,
I will ^eput my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and ^fI will turn you back on the way
by which you came.

Isaiah 9:18

18 For wickedness burns like ^ga fire;
it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 10:33-34

33 Behold, the Lord God of hosts
^hwill lop ⁱthe boughs with terrifying power;
the great in height will be hewn down,
and the lofty will be brought low.
34 He will cut down ^jthe thickets of the forest with an axe,
and ^kLebanon will fall by the Majestic One.

Jeremiah 21:14

14 ^lI will punish you according to ^mthe fruit of your deeds,

declares the Lord;
ⁿI will kindle a fire in her forest,
^oand it shall devour all that is around her.”

Ezekiel 20:47-48

47 Say to the forest of the Negeb, Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God, Behold, ^pI will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every ^qgreen tree in you and every ^rdry tree. The blazing flame shall not be quenched, and ^sall faces from south to north shall be scorched by it. 48 ^tAll flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.”