¹⁴ Also the ^(A)officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were ^(B)beaten and were asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as before?”

²⁴ Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion, ^(A)do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of ^(B)Egypt.