23 Whom did you insult and ridicule?Against whom did you raise your voiceand look on with disdain?It was against the holy one of Israel!
24 With your servants, you’ve insulted the Lord;you said, "I, with my many chariots,have gone up to the highest mountains,to the farthest reaches of Lebanon.I have cut down its tallest cedars,the best of its pine trees.I have reached its most remote lodging place,its best forest.
25 I have dug wells,have drunk water in foreign lands.With my own feet, I dried up all of Egypt’s streams."
26 Haven’t you heard?I set this up long ago;I planned it in the distant past!Now I have made it happen,making fortified cities collapse into piles of rubble.
27 Their citizens have lost their power;they are frightened and dismayed.They’ve become like plants in a field,tender green shoots,the grass on rooftops,blasted by the east wind.
28 I know where you are,how you go out and come in,and how you rage against me.
29 Because you rage against me and because your pride has reached my ears,I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth.I will make you go back the same way you came.