23  ^bBy your messengers you have mocked the Lord,

and you have said, ^c‘With my many chariots

I have gone up the heights of the mountains,

to the far recesses of ^dLebanon;

I felled its tallest cedars,

its choicest cypresses;

I entered its farthest lodging place,

its most ^efruitful forest.

24  By your servants you have mocked the Lord,

and you have said, ^zWith my many chariots

I have gone up the heights of the mountains,

to the far recesses of Lebanon,

^ato cut down its tallest cedars,

its choicest cypresses,

to come to its remotest height,

its most fruitful forest.