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23 You have mocked the Lord[a] through[b] your messengers.(A)
You have said, “With my many chariots(B)
I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon.
I cut down its tallest cedars,
its choice cypress trees.
I came to its farthest outpost,
its densest forest.
24 I dug wells
and drank water in foreign lands.
I dried up all the streams of Egypt(C)
with the soles of my feet.”

25 Have you not heard?(D)
I designed it long ago;
I planned it in days gone by.
I have now brought it to pass,(E)
and you have crushed fortified cities
into piles of rubble.

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Footnotes

  1. 19:23 Many mss read Lord
  2. 19:23 Lit by the hand of