23 Whom have you areproached and blasphemed?
And against whom have you heightened your voice
And haughtily blifted up your eyes?
Against the cHoly One of Israel!
24 Through your servants you have reproached the Lord,
And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of aLebanon;
And I cut down its tall bcedars and its choice cypresses.
And I will go to its highest peak, its thickest cforest.
25 I dug wells and drank waters,
And awith the sole of my feet I dried up
All the rivers of Egypt.’
26 aHave you not heard?
Long ago I did it;
From days of old I bformed it.
Now cI have brought it to pass,
That dyou should devastate fortified cities into eruinous heaps.
27 So their inhabitants were short of power;
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were as the aplant of the field and as the green herb,
As bgrass on the rooftops is scorched before it rises.
28 But I aknow your sitting down
And your going out and your coming in
And your raging against Me.
29 Because of your raging against Me
And because your apresumptuousness has come up to My ears,
Therefore I will put My bhook in your nose
And My cbridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back dby the way which you came.