Isaiah speaks against arrogance

21Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,”

22This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: ‘Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and mocks you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.’

23Whom have you mocked and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

24By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, ‘With my many chariots I myself have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses, and I will enter its farthest height, its fruitful forest.’

25I dug and drank water, and with the sole of my feet I dried up all the streams of Egypt.

26Have you not heard? Long ago I made it; from days of old I formed it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should lay waste fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

27And their inhabitants were powerless; they were shattered and put to shame. They were like the grass of the field and green growth, like grass on the housetops, and like a field before the standing grain.

28But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

29Because your raging against me and your complacency have come up into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way that you came.