rsv 2Kings:19:21-31 SEEK
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This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him : "
She despises you ,
she scorns you--the virgin daughter of Zion ;
she wags her head behind you--the daughter of Jerusalem .
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Whom have you mocked and reviled ?
Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes ?
Against the Holy One of Israel !
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By your messengers you have mocked the LORD ,
and you have said , `
With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains ,
to the far recesses of Lebanon ;
I felled its tallest cedars ,
its choicest cypresses ;
I entered its farthest retreat ,
its densest forest .
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I dug wells and drank foreign waters ,
and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt .'
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Have you not heard that I determined it long ago ?
I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass ,
that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins ,
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while their inhabitants ,
shorn of strength ,
are dismayed and confounded ,
and have become like plants of the field ,
and like tender grass ,
like grass on the housetops ;
blighted before it is grown ?
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But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in ,
and your raging against me .
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Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come into my ears ,
I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth ,
and I will turn you back on the way by which you came .
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And this shall be the sign for you :
this year you shall eat what grows of itself ,
and in the second year what springs of the same ;
then in the third year sow ,
and reap ,
and plant vineyards ,
and eat their fruit .
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And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward ,
and bear fruit upward ;
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for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant ,
and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors .
The zeal of the LORD will do this .