⁷ “Are not you Israelites
    the same to me as the Cushites^[a]?”^(A)
declares the Lord.
“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,
    the Philistines^(B) from Caphtor^[b](C)
    and the Arameans from Kir?^(D)

⁸ “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord
    are on the sinful kingdom.
I will destroy^(A) it
    from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not totally destroy
    the descendants of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.^(B)