^9 (A)The land mourns and languishes,
^(B)Lebanon is humiliated and withers;
^(C)Sharon is like a desert plain,
And Bashan and Carmel ^[a]lose their foliage.

²⁴ Through your servants you have ^[a]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 ^(A)Lebanon;
And I cut down its tall ^(B)cedars and its choice cypresses.
And I will go to its ^[b]highest peak, its thickest ^(C)forest.