24. You boasted that you dug wells and drank water in foreign lands and that the feet of your soldiers tramped the River Nile dry.
25. “Have you never heard that I planned all this long ago? And now I have carried it out. I gave you the power to turn fortified cities into piles of rubble.
26. The people who lived there were powerless; they were frightened and stunned. They were like grass in a field or weeds growing on a roof when the hot east wind blasts them.
27. “But I know everything about you, what you do and where you go. I know how you rage against me.
28. I have received the report of that rage and that pride of yours, and now I will put a hook through your nose and a bit in your mouth, and take you back by the same road you came.”