2 Kings 19:21–28

²¹This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him;

The ^ovirgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn;

The daughter of Jerusalem ^phath shaken her head at thee.

²²Whom hast thou ^qreproached and ^rblasphemed?

And against whom hast thou exalted thy voice,

And lift up thine eyes on high?

Even against ^sthe Holy One of Israel.

^23tBy thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said,

^uWith the multitude of my chariots I am come up

To the height of the mountains, to the sides of ^xLebanon,

And will cut down the tall ^xcedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof:

And I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his ^yCarmel.

²⁴I have digged and drunk strange waters,

And with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

²⁵Hast thou not heard long ago how ^zI have done it,

And of ancient times that I have formed it?

Now ^ahave I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste

Fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

²⁶Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,

They were dismayed and confounded;

They were as the grass of the field, and as the green ^bherb,

As ^cthe grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

²⁷But I know thy abode, and ^dthy going out, and thy coming in,

And thy rage against me.

²⁸Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears,

Therefore I will put ^emy hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips,

And I will turn thee back ^fby the way by which thou camest.