2 Kings 19:21–28

²¹“This is the word that the Lord 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 ^areproached and ^bblasphemed?

And against whom have you raised your voice,

And ¹haughtily lifted up your eyes?

Against the ^cHoly One of Israel!

²³‘^aThrough your messengers you have reproached 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 ¹cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.

And I entered 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 ancient times I planned it.

^bNow I have brought it to pass,

That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

²⁶‘Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,

They were dismayed and put to shame;

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

As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

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 ¹arrogance 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.