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21 This is the word that Yahweh has spoken against him:

‘She has despised you and mocked you,
(A)The virgin daughter of Zion;
She (B)has shaken her head behind you,
The daughter of Jerusalem!
22 Whom have you [a](C)reproached and (D)blasphemed?
And against whom have you heightened your voice,
And [b]haughtily lifted up your eyes?
Against the (E)Holy One of Israel!
23 (F)Through your messengers you have [c]reproached the Lord,
And you have said, “With my many chariots
I came up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of Lebanon;
And I [d]cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.
And I [e]entered its farthest lodging place, its (G)thickest forest.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 19:22 Or defied, cf. 1 Sam 17:26
  2. 2 Kings 19:22 Lit on high
  3. 2 Kings 19:23 Or defied, cf. 1 Sam 17:26
  4. 2 Kings 19:23 As in some ancient versions; M.T. will cut...will enter
  5. 2 Kings 19:23 As in some ancient versions; M.T. will cut...will enter