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this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: "She has shown contempt for you and derided you, The ^(C1)virgin ^(C2)daughter of Zion; The daughter of Jerusalem has ^(C3)shaken her head behind you!

-"Whom have you ^(C1)taunted and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice And ^(F1)haughtily ^(C2)raised your eyes? Against the ^(C3)Holy One of Israel!

-"Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, And you have said, 'With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotest parts of ^(C1)Lebanon; And I cut down its tall ^(C2)cedars and its choice junipers. And I will come to its ^(F1)highest peak, its thickest ^(C3)forest.

-'I dug wells and drank waters, And ^(C1)with the sole of my feet I dried up All the canals of ^(F1)Egypt.'

-"^(C1)Have you not heard? Long ago I did it, From ancient times I ^(C2)planned it. Now ^(C3)I have brought it about That ^(C4)you would turn fortified cities into ^(C5)ruined heaps.

-"Therefore their inhabitants were ^(F1)powerless, They were shattered and put to shame; They were like the ^(C1)vegetation of the field and the green grass, Like ^(C2)grass on the housetops ^(F2)that is scorched before it has grown.

-"But I ^(C1)know your sitting down, Your going out, your coming in, And your raging against Me.

-"Because of your raging against Me And because your ^(C1)complacency has come up to My ears, I will put My ^(C2)hook in your nose And My ^(C3)bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back ^(C4)by the way that you came.