Isaiah 37:22–29

²²this is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him:

She shows contempt for you; she derides you, virgin daughter of Zion;

she shakes her head behind you, daughter of Jerusalem.

²³Whom have you taunted and blasphemed,

and against whom have you raised up your voice and lifted your eyes upward?

To the holy one of Israel!

²⁴By the hand of your servants you have taunted the Lord,

and you have said, “With my many chariots,^x

I myself have gone up the height of the mountains,

to the remote areas of Lebanon.

And I cut off its tall cedars,^y

the choicest of its junipers.

And I came to the height of its limit,

the forest of its orchard.^z

²⁵I myself dug and drank waters,

and I caused all the streams of Egypt to dry up by the sole of my feet.”

²⁶Have you not heard from a long time ago?^a I have made it

from days of primeval time, and I formed it.

Now I have brought it about,

and it is for fortified cities to collapse into heaps of destroyed stones.

²⁷And their inhabitants are weak;^b

they are dismayed, and they are ashamed;

they have become like plants^c of the field,

and like greens of grass,

like grass on^d the roofs

and a cultivated field before^e the standing grain.

²⁸And I know your sitting down and your going out,

and your coming in, and your raging against^f me.

²⁹Because you were enraged against^g me,

and your noise^h has come up toⁱ my ears,

I will put my hook in your nose

and my bridle on your lips,

and I will turn you back

on the way by which you came.