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22 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice, and lifted up on high your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel! 23 By your messengers you have reproached the Lord, and you have said: “By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the limits of Lebanon. And I will cut down the height of its cedars, the choice of its cypresses, and I will enter the ends of its borders, the forest of its orchard. 24 I have dug and I have drunk strange waters, and I have dried up with the soles of my feet all the brooks of Egypt.” 25 Did you not hear? Long ago I made it, and from ancient times I formed it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should be for crushing into heaps of ruins fortified cities. 26 Therefore their dwellers are feeble of hand; they are dismayed and ashamed. They were as the grass of the field, and the greenness of the tender grass, as the grass of the roofs, and blighted before the face of standing grain. 27 And your dwelling place, and Your going out, and your coming in I know—and your raging against Me. 28 Because your raging against me and your tumult have come up to My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way in which you came.’ 2 Kings 19:22-28, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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