Berean Standard Bible

Isaiah 37:22-29

22this 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.23Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?Against whom have you raised your voiceand lifted your eyes in pride?Against the Holy One of Israel!

24Through 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 heights,the densest of its forests.25I have dug wellsand drunk foreign2 waters.With the soles of my feetI have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

26Have 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.27Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power,are dismayed and ashamed.They are like plants in the field,tender green shoots,grass on the rooftops,scorched3 before it is grown.

28But I know your sitting down,your going out and coming in,and your raging against Me.29Because 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. Isaiah 37:24 Or pines or junipers or firs ↩
2. Isaiah 37:25 DSS (see also 2 Kings 19:24); MT does not include foreign. ↩
3. Isaiah 37:27 DSS, some MT manuscripts, and some LXX manuscripts (see also 2 Kings 19:26); most MT manuscripts on the rooftops and terraced fields ↩

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