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.
²⁵     I have dug wells wherever I wished, and drunk my fill of others’ water.
        I have dried up Egypt’s waterways simply by walking them.’
²⁶     Ah, Sennacherib, haven’t you heard, don’t you know that long before you arrived,
        way back in ancient days, I determined all of this?
    I charted this course long ago, and now I bring it to pass.
        This is the reason why you turn well-fortified cities into heaps of rubble.