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Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: âWith 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. [a] I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
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2 Kings 19:23 In-Context
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This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: âThe Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
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Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
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Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: âWith 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. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
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I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.â
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Have 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.