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23 By your messengers you have insulted the Lord.
    You have claimed,
“With my many chariots
    I ascended the heights of the mountains,
        including the remotest regions of Lebanon;
I cut down its tall cedars
    and the best of its cypress trees.
I entered its most remote lodging place
    and its most fruitful[a] forest.
24 I myself dug for and drank foreign water.
    With the sole of my foot I dried up all the streams of Egypt!”

25 ‘Didn’t you hear?
    I determined it years ago!
I planned this from ancient times,
    and now I’ve brought it to pass,
to turn fortified cities
    into piles of ruins

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  1. 2 Kings 19:23 Or its densest