Berean Standard Bible

2 Kings 19:21-28

21This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him:

‘The Virgin Daughter of Ziondespises you and mocks you;the Daughter of Jerusalemshakes her head behind you.22Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?Against whom have you raised your voiceand lifted your eyes in pride?Against the Holy One of Israel!23Through your servants you have taunted the Lord,and you have said:

“With my many chariotsI have ascendedto the heights of the mountains,to the remote peaks of Lebanon.I have cut down its tallest cedars,the finest of its cypresses.1I have reached its farthest outposts,the densest of its forests.24I have dug wellsand drunk foreign waters.With the soles of my feetI have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

25Have you not heard?Long ago I ordained it;in days of old I planned it.Now I have brought it to pass,that you should crush fortified citiesinto piles of rubble.26Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power,are dismayed and ashamed.They are like plants in the field,tender green shoots,grass on the rooftops,scorched before it is grown.

27But I know your sitting down,your going out and coming in,and your raging against Me.28Because your rage and arrogance against Mehave reached My ears,I will put My hook in your noseand My bit in your mouth;I will send you backthe way you came.’

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1. 2 Kings 19:23 Or pines or junipers or firs ↩

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