'By your messengers 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 reached its remotest height, its densest forest — the oracle cites Sennacherib's own words or claims about his military conquests. The reference to 'my many chariots' and conquests in Lebanon indicates Sennacherib's testimony to his own power. Isaiah appropriates these words, acknowledging the military reality while recontextualizing it: even conquest of Lebanon's cedars does not compare to challenging the Holy One.

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