22 ‘Whom have you (A)reproached and (B)blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised your voice,
And [a]haughtily lifted up your eyes?
Against the (C)Holy One of Israel!
23 (D)Through your messengers you have reproached the Lord,
And you have said, “With my many chariots
I came up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of Lebanon;
And I [b]cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.
And I [c]entered its farthest lodging place, its (E)thickest forest.
24 “I dug wells and drank foreign waters,
And with the sole of my feet I [d](F)dried up
All the rivers of [e]Egypt.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 19:22 Lit on high
  2. 2 Kings 19:23 So with some ancient versions; M.T. will cut...will enter
  3. 2 Kings 19:23 So with some ancient versions; M.T. will cut...will enter
  4. 2 Kings 19:24 So with some ancient versions; M.T. will dry up
  5. 2 Kings 19:24 Lit the besieged place

22 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?(A)
    Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
    Against the Holy One(B) of Israel!
23 By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,(C)
    “With my many chariots(D)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights of Lebanon.
I have cut down(E) its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.
I have reached its remotest parts,
    the finest of its forests.
24 I have dug wells in foreign lands
    and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
    I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

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