2 Kings 19:21-25

English Standard Version

²¹This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:

“She despises you, she scorns you—
^(A)the virgin daughter of Zion;
she ^(B)wags her head behind you—
the daughter of Jerusalem.

²²“Whom have you ^(C)mocked and ^(D)reviled?
    Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
    Against ^(E)the Holy One of Israel!
²³^(F)By your messengers you have mocked the Lord,
    and you have said, ^(G)‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
    to the far recesses of ^(H)Lebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
    its choicest cypresses;
I entered its farthest lodging place,
    its most ^(I)fruitful forest.
²⁴I dug wells
    and drank foreign waters,
and I dried up with the sole of my foot
    all the streams ^(J)of Egypt.’

²⁵“Have you not heard
    that ^(K)I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
    what ^(L)now I bring to pass,
that you should turn fortified cities
    into heaps of ruins,