21 This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin, athe daughter of Zion, Has despised you, laughed you to scorn; The daughter of Jerusalem bHas shaken her head behind your back!
22 ‘Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, And lifted up your eyes on high? Against athe Holy One of Israel.
23aBy your messengers you have reproached the Lord, And said: b“By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, To the limits of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars And its choice cypress trees; I will enter the extremity of its borders, To its fruitful forest.
24 I have dug and drunk strange water, And with the soles of my feet I have adried up All the brooks of defense.”
25 ‘Did you not hear long ago HowaI made it, From ancient times that I formed it? Now I have brought it to pass, That byou should be For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
26 Therefore their inhabitants had little power; They were dismayed and confounded; They were as the grass of the field And the green herb, Asathe grass on the housetops And grain blighted before it is grown.
These verses use flowery language and picturesque wording to help us to understand that nothing stood in Sennacherib's way. He mowed everything down. The problem is that Sennacherib became conceited about it all. He thought he was doing this by his own military brilliance and by the power of his armaments.
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