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'1Have you not heard? Longago I did it; From ancienttimes I planned it. 2Now I have brought it to pass, That you should turn*fortifiedcities into ruinousheaps.
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'Through 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 cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses. And I entered its farthest lodging place, its thickest forest.
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"I dug wells and drank foreign waters, And with the sole of my feet I dried up All the rivers of Egypt."
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'Have you not heard? Long ago I did it; From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
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'Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb, As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.
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'But I know your sitting down, And your going out and your coming in, And your raging against Me.