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21-22 And Hezekiah got a response. The prophet Isaiah, Amoz’s son, relayed this to him:

Isaiah: The Eternal, Israel’s God, the God to whom you prayed concerning the Assyrian king, has this to say against Sennacherib:

Eternal One: The virgin daughter of Zion, lovely lady that she is,
        despises you, mocks you.
    The daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head and rejects you.
23     After all, who is the one you’ve taunted and insulted?
        Who is the one you’ve slandered with untruths, ugly and dismissive?
    Who is the one you shouted at and looked down upon with your arrogant eyes?
        None other than the Holy One of Israel!
24     By way of your servants’ mouths, you have blasphemed my Lord.
        Foolish, foolish Sennacherib. You have boasted,
    ‘My impressive company of chariots has taken me up the highest mountains,
        into the far reaches of the Lebanese forests.
    I myself felled its greatest cedars, cut down the best of its cypresses.
        I have been to its highest peak, and claimed its thickest forest.

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22 this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

“Virgin Daughter(A) Zion(B)
    despises and mocks you.
Daughter Jerusalem
    tosses her head(C) as you flee.
23 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?(D)
    Against whom have you raised your voice(E)
and lifted your eyes in pride?(F)
    Against the Holy One(G) of Israel!
24 By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,
    ‘With my many chariots(H)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights(I) of Lebanon.(J)
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.(K)
I have reached its remotest heights,
    the finest of its forests.

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