⁸ The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
    and you looked in that day^(A)
    to the weapons^(B) in the Palace of the Forest.^(C)

²⁴ By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,
    ‘With my many chariots^(A)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights^(B) of Lebanon.^(C)
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.^(D)
I have reached its remotest heights,
    the finest of its forests.

“Though you are like Gilead^(A) to me,
    like the summit of Lebanon,^(B)
I will surely make you like a wasteland,^(C)
    like towns not inhabited.

²³ You who live in ‘Lebanon,^[a](A)’
    who are nestled in cedar buildings,
how you will groan when pangs come upon you,
    pain^(B) like that of a woman in labor!