By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of LEBANON, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.

"Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of LEBANON; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in LEBANON. Behold, my servants will be with your servants,