⁶⁸ The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again.^(A) There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

¹² I will take away the remnant^(A) of Judah who were determined to go to Egypt to settle there. They will all perish in Egypt; they will fall by the sword or die from famine. From the least to the greatest,^(B) they will die by sword or famine.^(C) They will become a curse and an object of horror, a curse and an object of reproach.^(D)

⁷ So they entered Egypt^(A) in disobedience to the Lord and went as far as Tahpanhes.^(B)

¹⁶ The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses^(A) for himself^(B) or make the people return to Egypt^(C) to get more of them,^(D) for the Lord has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.”^(E)

²⁴ They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled^(A) on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

⁴ “Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon^(C) and all you regions of Philistia?^(D) Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.^{(E) 5} For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.^{[a](F) 6} You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,^(G) that you might send them far from their homeland.

⁷ “See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them,^(H) and I will return^(I) on your own heads what you have done.

⁴ For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated.^(A) If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king.^[a]”