²² Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?^(A)
    Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
    Against the Holy One^(B) of Israel!
²³ By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,^(C)
    “With my many chariots^(D)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights of Lebanon.
I have cut down^(E) its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.
I have reached its remotest parts,
    the finest of its forests.
²⁴ I have dug wells in foreign lands
    and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
    I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

²⁴ By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,
    ‘With my many chariots^(A)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights^(B) of Lebanon.^(C)
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.^(D)
I have reached its remotest heights,
    the finest of its forests.
²⁵ I have dug wells in foreign lands^[a]
    and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
    I have dried up^(E) all the streams of Egypt.^(F)’

²⁶ “Have you not heard?
    Long ago I ordained^(G) it.
In days of old I planned^(H) it;
    now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
    into piles of stone.^(I)
27 Their people, drained of power,
    are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,
like grass^(J) sprouting on the roof,^(K)
    scorched^[b] before it grows up.

⁴ By your wisdom and understanding
    you have gained wealth for yourself
and amassed gold and silver
    in your treasuries.^(A)