24. Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master,‘With my many chariots I climbed upthe high mountains,the slopes of Lebanon.I cut down its tall cedarsand its best evergreens.I invaded its most remote regions,its thickest woods.
25. I dug wellsand drank water.With the soles of my feet I dried upall the rivers of Egypt.’
26. Certainly you must have heard!Long ago I worked it out,in ancient times I planned it,and now I am bringing it to pass.The plan is this:Fortified cities will crashinto heaps of ruins.
27. Their residents are powerless;they are terrified and ashamed.They are as short-lived as plants in the fieldor green vegetation.They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftopswhen it is scorched by the east wind.