24. You have sent your messengers to insult the Lord.You have said, “With my many chariotsI have gone to the tops of the mountains,to the highest mountains of Lebanon.I have cut down its tallest cedarsand its best pine trees.I have gone to its greatest heightsand its best forests.
25. I have dug wells in foreign countriesand drunk water there.By the soles of my feet,I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt.”
26. “ ‘King of Assyria, surely you have heard.Long ago I, the Lord, planned these things.Long ago I designed them,and now I have made them happen.I allowed you to turn those strong, walled citiesinto piles of rocks.
27. The people in those cities were weak;they were frightened and put to shame.They were like grass in the field,like tender, young grass,like grass on the housetopthat is burned by the wind before it can grow.
28. “ ‘I know when you rest,when you come and go,and how you rage against me.
29. Because you rage against me,and because I have heard your proud words,I will put my hook in your noseand my bit in your mouth.Then I will force you to leave my countrythe same way you came.’