21. This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, she ridicules you—virgin daughter of Zion.Behind you, she shakes her head—daughter of Jerusalem.
22. Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?And against whom have you raised a voiceand lifted your eyes upward?Against the Holy One of Israel.
23. By your messengersyou have taunted the Lord,and have said,‘With my many chariotsI have gone up the height of the mountains,to farthest reaches of Lebanon,and I will cut down its tallest cedars,its choicest junipers.I will enter its most remote canopies of night,its dense forest.
24. I have dug wellsand drunk foreign waters,and I dried up with the sole of my footall the streams of Egypt.’
25. “Have you not heard?Long ago I arranged it,in ancient times I formed it;now I bring it to pass,that you will turn impregnable citiesinto desolate heaps of stones.
26. Their inhabitants are powerless;they are terrified and ashamed.They are like grass of the fieldand new vegetation,grass on the roof tops,scorched before it stands.
27. “But I know your dwelling place,your going out and your coming in,and your raging against Me.
28. Because you have raged against Me,and your self-assuredness has come up to My ears,I will put My hook in your noseand My bridle on your lips,and I will turn you backon the way by which you came.