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23 By your messengers you have taunted the Lord.
You have said, “With my many chariots I have gone up
    to the heights of the mountains,
    to the most remote part of Lebanon.
I cut down its tall cedars and the best of its fir trees.
I went in to its farthest dwelling place, the most lush of its forests.
24 I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands.
I dried up all the streams of Egypt with the soles of my feet.”

25 Have you not heard?
From long ago I, the Lord, did this.
From days of eternity I formed it,
and now I have brought it about
    that fortified cities crash into piles of ruined stones.

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