23 You dispatched your errand boys
    to humiliate the Master.
You bragged, “With my army of chariots
    I’ve climbed the highest mountains,
    snow-peaked alpine Lebanon mountains!
I’ve cut down its giant cedars,
    chopped down its prize pine trees.
I’ve traveled the world,
    visited the finest forest retreats.
24 I’ve dug wells in faraway places
    and drunk their exotic waters;
I’ve waded and splashed barefoot
    in the rivers of Egypt.”

25 Did it never occur to you
    that I’m behind all this?
Long, long ago I drew up the plans,
    and now I’ve gone into action,
Using you as a doomsday weapon,
    reducing proud cities to piles of rubble,

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