The virgin daughter of Zion
    has despised you and mocked you;
the daughter of Jerusalem
    has shaken her head at you.
²³ Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
    And against whom have you raised your voice,
and lifted up your eyes haughtily?
    Against the Holy One of Israel!
²⁴ Through your servants
    you have reproached the Lord
and have said,
    ‘With my many chariots
I have come up to the heights of the mountains,
    to the remotest parts of Lebanon;
and I cut down its tall cedars,
    and its choice fir trees;
and I will go to its highest peak,
    its thickest forest.
²⁵ I have dug wells
    and drunk water,
and with the sole of my feet
    I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

²⁶ “Have you not heard?
    Long ago I have done it,
from ancient times I have formed it.
    Now I have brought it to pass,
that you should turn fortified cities
    into ruinous heaps.
²⁷ Therefore, their inhabitants were short of strength;
    they were dismayed and humiliated;
they were as the grass of the field
    and as the green herb,
as the grass on the housetops
    is scorched before it is grown up.

²⁸ “But I know your abode,
    and your going out and your coming in,
    and your rage against Me.
²⁹ Because your rage against Me
    and your tumult have come up into My ears,
therefore I will put My hook in your nose,
    and My bridle in your lips,
and I will turn you back
    on the way by which you came.

You shall eat this year what grows of itself,
    and the second year what springs from the same,
and in the third year sow and reap
    and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
³¹ The surviving remnant of the house of Judah
    shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
³² For from Jerusalem shall go out a remnant,
    and those who escape out of Mount Zion.
The zeal of the Lord of Hosts
    shall do this.

He shall not come into this city,
    nor shoot an arrow there,
nor come before it with shields,
    nor build a siege ramp against it.
³⁴ By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,
    and shall not come into this city,
    says the Lord.
³⁵ For I will defend this city to save it
    for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.”