22
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy one of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high.
23
By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots have I come up To the height of the mountain, to the recesses of Lebanon, And I will cut down its tall cedars, the choice of its cypresses; And I will enter into its furthest lodging-place, [into] the forest of its fruitful field.
24
I have digged, and have drunk strange waters, And with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.
25
Hast thou not heard long ago that I have done it? And that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities [into] ruinous heaps.
26
And their inhabitants were powerless, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were [as] the growing grass, and [as] the green herb, [As] the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up.
Footnotes 1
[a].
i.e. 'Egypt;' the term 'Matsor' was applied originally to the fortified part of the country in the north-east. Isa. 19.6; 37.25; Mic. 7.12. Same word as 'fortress' in Jer. 10.17.