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.

¹⁷ The violence^(A) you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you,
    and your destruction of animals will terrify you.^(B)
For you have shed human blood;^(C)
    you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.

11 Open your doors, Lebanon,^(A)
    so that fire^(B) may devour your cedars!