Isaiah 37:23–29

²³Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?

Against whom have you raised your voice

and lifted your eyes in pride?

Against the Holy One of Israel!

²⁴Through your servants you have taunted the Lord,

and you have said:

“With my many chariots

I have ascended

to the heights of the mountains,

to the remote peaks of Lebanon.

I have cut down its tallest cedars,

the finest of its cypresses.^d

I have reached its farthest heights,

the densest of its forests.

²⁵I have dug wells

and drunk foreign^e waters.

With the soles of my feet

I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

²⁶Have you not heard?

Long ago I ordained it;

in days of old I planned it.

Now I have brought it to pass,

that you should crush fortified cities

into piles of rubble.

²⁷Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power,

are dismayed and ashamed.

They are like plants in the field,

tender green shoots,

grass on the rooftops,

scorched^f before it is grown.

²⁸But I know your sitting down,

your going out and coming in,

and your raging against Me.

²⁹Because your rage and arrogance against Me

have reached My ears,

I will put My hook in your nose

and My bit in your mouth;

I will send you back

the way you came.’