²⁸ “But I know where you are
    and when you come and go^(A)
    and how you rage^(B) against me.
²⁹ Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence^(C) has reached my ears,
I will put my hook^(D) in your nose^(E)
    and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return
    by the way you came.^(F)

²³ Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?^(A)
    Against whom have you raised your voice^(B)
and lifted your eyes in pride?^(C)
    Against the Holy One^(D) of Israel!
²⁴ By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,
    ‘With my many chariots^(E)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights^(F) of Lebanon.^(G)
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.^(H)
I have reached its remotest heights,
    the finest of its forests.

¹⁵ Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it,
    or the saw boast against the one who uses it?^(A)
As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up,
    or a club^(B) brandish the one who is not wood!

²⁸ Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence has reached my ears,
I will put my hook^(A) in your nose
    and my bit^(B) in your mouth,
and I will make you return^(C)
    by the way you came.’