23 (A)Through your messengers you have taunted the Lord,
And you have said, “With my many chariots
I went up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of Lebanon;
And I cut down its tall cedars and its choicest junipers.
And I entered its farthest resting place, its (B)thickest forest.
24 I dug wells and drank foreign waters,
And with the soles of my feet I (C)dried up
All the streams of Egypt.”

25 (D)Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it;
From ancient times I planned it.
(E)Now I have brought it about,
That you would turn fortified cities into ruined heaps.

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