Isaiah 37:24-26

New Catholic Bible

²⁴ Through your servants you have insulted the Lord
    and boasted: ‘With my many chariots
I have ascended the mountain heights,
    the farthest peaks of Lebanon.
I have felled its tallest cedars,
    its finest cypresses.
I have reached its highest peak
    and its most luxuriant forest.
²⁵ I have dug wells in foreign lands
    and drunk the water there,
and with the soles of my feet
    I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’
²⁶ “Have you not heard
    that I devised this plan long ago?
I planned it from days of old,
    and now I have brought this to fruition:
you have reduced your fortified cities
    into heaps of rubble,