22
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? And against whom hast thou exalted
thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? Against the Holy
One of Israel.
23
By the hand of thy messengers, thou hast reproached the Lord and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof
and the choice fir trees thereof; and I will enter into the habitation of his borders
and into the forest of his Carmel.
24
I have dug and drunk the waters of others, and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of defended places.
25
Hast thou never heard that from a long time
ago I made her,
and from ancient times I have formed her? Now I have made her come, and it shall be to lay waste fenced cities
into ruinous heaps.
26
Therefore their inhabitants’ hands were too short; dismayed and confounded, they shall be
as the grass of the field and
as the green herb,
as the hay on the housetops, that is dried up before it comes to maturity.