2 Kings 19:21–28

²¹“This is the word that Yahweh has spoken against him:

‘She has despised you and mocked you,

^aThe virgin daughter of Zion;

She ^bhas shaken her head behind you,

The daughter of Jerusalem!

²²‘Whom have you ^1areproached and ^bblasphemed?

And against whom have you heightened your voice,

And ²haughtily lifted up your eyes?

Against the ^cHoly One of Israel!

²³‘^aThrough your messengers you have ¹reproached the Lord,

And you have said, “With my many chariots

I came up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon;

And I ²cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.

And I ³entered its farthest lodging place, its ^bthickest forest.

²⁴“I dug wells and drank foreign waters,

And with the sole of my feet I ^1adried up

All the rivers of ²Egypt.”

²⁵‘^aHave you not heard?

Long ago I did it;

From days of old I formed it.

^bNow I have brought it to pass,

That you should devastate fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

²⁶‘So their inhabitants were short of power,

They were dismayed and put to shame;

They were ^aas the plant of the field and as the green herb,

As grass on the rooftops is scorched before it rises.

²⁷‘But ^aI know your sitting down,

And your going out and your coming in,

And your raging against Me.

²⁸‘Because of your raging against Me,

And because your ¹presumptuousness has come up to My ears,

Therefore I ^awill put My hook in your nose,

And My bridle in your lips,

And ^bI will turn you back by the way which you came.