Isaiah 37:23-29
23 “‘Whom have you mocked and reviled?Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
Against athe Holy One of Israel!
24By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, bWith my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon,
cto cut down its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
its most fruitful forest.
25I dug wells
and drank waters,
to dry up with the sole of my foot
all dthe streams eof Egypt.
26 f“‘Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,
27while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted ▼
▼Some Hebrew manuscripts and 2 Kings 19:26; most Hebrew manuscripts like a field
before it is grown.28 “‘I know your sitting down
and your going out and coming in,
and your raging against me.
29 hBecause you have raged against me
and your complacency has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and iI will turn you back on the way
by which you came.’
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