⁶⁸ And the Lord ^(A)will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that ^(B)you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

¹² I will take the remnant of Judah who have ^(A)set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed. ^(B)In the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine ^(C)they shall be consumed. ^(D)From the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine, ^(E)and they shall become an oath, a horror, ^(F)a curse, and a taunt.

⁷ And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the Lord. And they arrived at ^(A)Tahpanhes.

¹⁶ Only he must not acquire many ^(A)horses for himself or cause the people ^(B)to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, ^(C)‘You shall never return that way again.’

³ and ^(A)have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

⁴ “What are you to me, ^(B)O Tyre and Sidon, and all ^(C)the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, ^(D)I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. ⁵ For ^(E)you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.^{[a] 6} You have sold ^(F)the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. ⁷ Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and ^(G)I will return your payment on your own head.

^4 (A)For we have been sold, I and my people, ^(B)to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”

⁸ and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, ^(A)have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.