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23     Your messengers have been your vessels of rebuke against the Lord;
        you have spoken, ‘In the company of my countless chariots,
    I arrived at the mountain heights.
        At the most distant lands of Lebanon,
    I chopped down the tallest cedars
        and the finest-looking cypress trees.
    I went to its most distant resting place,
        in its deepest forest.
24     I made wells in the ground
        and quenched my thirst with foreign waters;
    With the bottom of my feet I soaked up
        every last drop of Egypt’s rivers.’

25     Don’t you know?
        I did this thing a long time ago;
    From the beginning, I planned it.
        I have now done it,
    So that you might cause strong cities
        to turn into piles of rubble.

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23 By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,(A)
    “With my many chariots(B)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights of Lebanon.
I have cut down(C) 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.”

25 “‘Have you not heard?(D)
    Long ago I ordained it.
In days of old I planned(E) it;
    now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
    into piles of stone.(F)

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