²⁸ “‘I know your sitting down
    and your going out and coming in,
    and your raging against me.
^29 (A)Because you have raged against me
    and your complacency has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
    and my bit in your mouth,
and ^(B)I will turn you back on the way
    by which you came.’

²³ “‘Whom have you mocked and reviled?
    Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
    Against ^(A)the Holy One of Israel!
²⁴ By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
    and you have said, ^(B)With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
    to the far recesses of Lebanon,
^(C)to cut down its tallest cedars,
    its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
    its most fruitful forest.

¹⁵ Shall ^(A)the axe boast over him who hews with it,
    or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
    or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!