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24 Through your servants,
you have blasphemed my Lord and said:
‘With my many chariots
    I have climbed to the heights of the mountains,
    to the remotest parts of Lebanon!
I cut down its tall cedars
    and choice cypress trees.
I have gone to its farthest peak,
    its thickest forest.
25 I dug and drank water,
and with the sole of my feet,
I dried up all the streams of Egypt.’

26 Have you not heard?
I did it long ago!
From ancient times I planned it.
Now I have brought it to pass—
    that you should turn fortified cities
        into heaps of rubble.

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