23 "Whom have you reproached and blasphemed ? And against whom have you raised your voice And haughtily lifted up your eyes ? Against the Holy One of Israel ! 24 "Through your servants you have reproached the Lord , And you have said , 'With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains , To the remotest parts of Lebanon ; And I cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses . And I will go to its highest peak , its thickest forest . 25 'I dug wells and drank waters , And with the sole of my feet I dried up All the rivers of Egypt .' 26 " Have you not heard ? Long ago I did it, From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass , That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps . 27 "Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength , They were dismayed and put to shame ; They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb , As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up. 28 "But I know your sitting down And your going out and your coming in And your raging against Me. 29 "Because of your raging against Me And because your arrogance has come up to My ears , Therefore I will put My hook in your nose And My bridle in your lips , And I will turn you back by the way which you came .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 37:23-29
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Isaiah 37 is the same as 2 Kings 19. Thus, please see the commentary on 2 Kings 19.