22. Whom have you insulted and blasphemed,at whom have you raised your voiceAnd lifted up your eyes on high?At the Holy One of Israel!
23. Through the mouths of your messengersyou insulted the Lord when you said,‘With my many chariots I went upto the tops of the peaks,to the recesses of Lebanon,To cut down its lofty cedars,its choice cypresses;I reached to the farthest shelter,the forest ranges.
24. I myself dug wellsand drank foreign waters,Drying up all the rivers of Egyptbeneath the soles of my feet.’
25. “Have you not heard?A long time ago I prepared it,from days of old I planned it.Now I have brought it about:You are here to reducefortified cities to heaps of ruins,
26. Their people powerless,dismayed and distraught.They are plants of the field,green growth,thatch on the rooftops,Grain scorched by the east wind.
27. I know when you stand or sit,when you come or goand how you rage against me.
28. Because you rage against me,and your smugness has reached my ears,I will put my hook in your noseand my bit in your mouth,And make you leave by the way you came.
29. “This shall be a sign for you:This year you shall eat the aftergrowth,next year, what grows of itself;But in the third year, sow and reap,plant vineyards and eat their fruit!
30. The remaining survivors of the house of Judahshall again strike root belowand bear fruit above.
31. For out of Jerusalem shall come a remnant,and from Mount Zion, survivors.The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.