The virgin, the daughter of Zion,
hath despised thee,
and laughed thee to scorn;
the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

²³ [This] Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?
and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice,
and lifted up thine eyes on high?
even against the Holy One of Israel.
²⁴ By [In the hand of] thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord,
and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots
am I come up to the height of the mountains,
to the sides of Lebanon;
and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof,
and the choice fir trees thereof:
and I will enter into the height of his border,
and the forest of his Carmel.
²⁵ I have digged,
and drunk water;
and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
²⁶ Hast thou not heard long ago,
how I have done it;
and of ancient times [from the front days],
that I have formed it?
now have I bought it to pass,
that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities
into ruinous heaps.
²⁷ Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,
they were dismayed and confounded:
they were as the grass of the field,
and as the green herb,
as the grass on the housetops,
and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

²⁸ But I know thy abode,
and thy going out,
and thy coming in,
and thy rage against me.
²⁹ Because thy rage against me,
and thy tumult,
is come up into mine ears,
therefore will I put my hook in thy nose,
and my bridle in thy lips,
and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.