Isaiah 37:22–29

²²this is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him;

The virgin, ^kthe daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn;

The daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

²³Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?

And against whom hast thou exalted thy voice,

And lifted up thine eyes on high?

Even against the Holy One of Israel.

²⁴By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said,

By the multitude of my chariots am I come up

To the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon;

And I will cut down the tall ^mcedars thereof, and the choice ^mfir trees thereof:

And I will enter into the height of his border, and ⁿthe forest of his Carmel.

²⁵I have digged, and drunk water;

And with the sole of my feet have I dried up all ^othe rivers of the ^obesieged places.

²⁶Hast thou not heard long ago, how ^pI have done it;

And of ancient times, that ^pI have formed it?

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

^qDefenced cities into ruinous heaps.

²⁷Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,

^rThey 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.

²⁸But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in,

And thy rage against me.

²⁹Because thy rage against me, and thy ^stumult, is come up into mine ears,

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

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