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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.
24 I have dug wells
    and drunk foreign waters,
and I dried up with the sole of my foot
    all the streams of Egypt.’

25 “Have you not heard?
    Long ago I arranged it,
in ancient times I formed it;
    now I bring it to pass,
that you will turn impregnable cities
    into desolate heaps of stones.

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