Isaiah 37:23-25

The Voice

²³     After all, who is the one you’ve taunted and insulted?
        Who is the one you’ve slandered with untruths, ugly and dismissive?
    Who is the one you shouted at and looked down upon with your arrogant eyes?
        None other than the Holy One of Israel!
²⁴     By way of your servants’ mouths, you have blasphemed my Lord.
        Foolish, foolish Sennacherib. You have boasted,
    ‘My impressive company of chariots has taken me up the highest mountains,
        into the far reaches of the Lebanese forests.
    I myself felled its greatest cedars, cut down the best of its cypresses.
        I have been to its highest peak, and claimed its thickest forest.
²⁵     I have dug wells wherever I wished, and drunk my fill of others’ water.
        I have dried up Egypt’s waterways simply by walking them.’