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

She despises you, she ridicules you—
    virgin daughter of Zion.
Behind you, she shakes her head—
    daughter of Jerusalem.
22 Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?
    And against whom have you raised a voice
and lifted your eyes upward?
    Against the Holy One of Israel.
23 By your messengers
    you have taunted the Lord,
and have said,
    ‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the height of the mountains,
    to farthest reaches of Lebanon,
and I will cut down its tallest cedars,
    its choicest junipers.
I will enter its most remote canopies of night,
    its dense forest.

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