By your servants 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 came to its remotest height, its densest forest.
Their widows became more numerous than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of youths a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon her suddenly.
I am going to bring upon you a nation from far away, O house of Israel, says the Lord. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.