She despises you, she ridicules you—
    virgin daughter of Zion.
Behind you, she shakes her head—
    daughter of Jerusalem.
²² Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?
    And against whom have you raised a voice
and lifted your eyes upward?
    Against the Holy One of Israel.
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.
²⁶ Their inhabitants are powerless;
    they are terrified and ashamed.
They are like grass of the field
    and new vegetation,
grass on the roof tops,
    scorched before it stands.

²⁷ “But I know your dwelling place,
    your going out and your coming in,
    and your raging against Me.
²⁸ Because you have raged against Me,
    and your self-assuredness has come up to My ears,
I will put My hook in your nose
    and My bridle on your lips,
and I will turn you back
    on the way by which you came.

This year you will eat what grows itself,
    and in the second year the same.
Then in the third year sow, reap,
    and plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.
³⁰ The spared of the house of Judah who remain
    will again take root below, and bear fruit above.
³¹ For from Jerusalem a remnant will go forth,
    and escapees from Mount Zion.

He will not enter this city,
    shoot an arrow there,
approach it with shield,
    or heap up a siege ramp against it.
³³ By the way that he came, he will return;
    he will not enter this city,
    declares the Lord.
³⁴ For I will protect this city to save it,
    for My own sake and for the sake of David My servant.”