23 (A)By your messengers you have reproached the Lord,
And said: (B)“By the multitude of my chariots
I have come up to the height of the mountains,
To the limits of Lebanon;
I will cut down its tall cedars
And its choice cypress trees;
I will enter the extremity of its borders,
To its fruitful forest.
24 I have dug and drunk strange water,
And with the soles of my feet I have (C)dried up
All the brooks of defense.”

25 ‘Did you not hear long ago
How (D)I made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That (E)you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

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