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aThrough your messengers 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 entered its farthest lodging place, its bthickest forest.
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2 Chronicles 26:10, Isaiah 10:18
2 Chronicles 26
10
He built towers in the wilderness and ahewed many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the lowland and in the plain. He also had plowmen and vinedressers in the hill country and the fertile fields, for he loved the soil.
Isaiah 10
18
And He will adestroy the glory of his forest and of his fruitful garden, both soul and body, And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
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