23 (A)By your messengers you have mocked the Lord,
    and you have said, (B)‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
    to the far recesses of (C)Lebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
    its choicest cypresses;
I entered its farthest lodging place,
    its most (D)fruitful forest.
24 I dug wells
    and drank foreign waters,
and I dried up with the sole of my foot
    all the streams (E)of Egypt.’

25 “Have you not heard
    that (F)I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
    what (G)now I bring to pass,
that you should turn fortified cities
    into heaps of ruins,

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