19:21 This is what the Lord says about him: ¹ 

“The virgin daughter Zion ² 

despises you, she makes fun of you;

Daughter Jerusalem

shakes her head after you. ³ 

19:22 Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at?

At whom have you shouted, ⁴ 

and looked so arrogantly? ⁵ 

At the Holy One of Israel! ⁶ 

19:23 Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, ⁷ 

‘With my many chariots ⁸ 

I climbed up the high mountains,

the slopes of Lebanon.

I cut down its tall cedars,

and its best evergreens.

I invaded its most remote regions, ⁹ 

its thickest woods.

19:24 I dug wells and drank

water in foreign lands. ¹⁰ 

With the soles of my feet I dried up

all the rivers of Egypt.’

19:25 ¹¹ 

Certainly you must have heard! ¹² 

Long ago I worked it out,

In ancient times I planned ¹³  it;

and now I am bringing it to pass.

The plan is this:

Fortified cities will crash

into heaps of ruins. ¹⁴ 

19:26 Their residents are powerless, ¹⁵ 

they are terrified and ashamed.

They are as short-lived as plants in the field,

or green vegetation. ¹⁶ 

They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops ¹⁷ 

when it is scorched by the east wind. ¹⁸ 

19:27 I know where you live,

and everything you do. ¹⁹