2 Kings 19:21-23

The Voice

    “She has abhorred and ridiculed you,
        Zion’s virgin daughter.
    She has ridiculed you behind your back,
        Jerusalem’s daughter!
²²     Whom have you rebuked and spoken blasphemies against?
        Whom do you speak loudly against?
    And arrogantly lift up your eyes
        against the Holy One, Israel’s God?
²³     Your messengers have been your vessels of rebuke against the Lord;
        you have spoken, ‘In the company of my countless chariots,
    I arrived at the mountain heights.
        At the most distant lands of Lebanon,
    I chopped down the tallest cedars
        and the finest-looking cypress trees.
    I went to its most distant resting place,
        in its deepest forest.