Isaiah 37:22–29

²²this is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning him:

“The virgin, the daughter of Zion,

Has despised you, laughed you to scorn;

The daughter of Jerusalem

Has shaken her head behind your back!

²³“Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?

Against whom have you raised your voice,

And lifted up your eyes on high?

Against the Holy One of Israel.

²⁴By your servants you have reproached the Lord,

And said, ‘By the multitude of my chariots

I have come up to the height of the mountains,

To the limits of Lebanon;

I will cut down its tall cedars

And its choice cypress trees;

I will enter its farthest height,

To its fruitful forest.

²⁵I have dug and drunk water,

And with the soles of my feet I have dried up

All the brooks of ²defense.’

²⁶“Did you not hear ^mlong ago

How I made it,

From ancient times that I formed it?

Now I have brought it to pass,

That you should be

For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

²⁷Therefore their inhabitants had little power;

They were dismayed and confounded;

They were as the grass of the field

And the green herb,

As the grass on the housetops

And grain blighted before it is grown.

²⁸“But I know your dwelling place,

Your going out and your coming in,

And your rage against Me.

²⁹Because your rage against Me and your tumult

Have come up to My ears,

Therefore ⁿI will put My hook in your nose

And My bridle in your lips,

And I will ^oturn you back

By the way which you came.” ’