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.