¹³ “‘Yet this is what the Sovereign Lord says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered.

²⁶ I will give them into the hands^(A) of those who want to kill them—Nebuchadnezzar king^(B) of Babylon and his officers. Later, however, Egypt will be inhabited^(C) as in times past,” declares the Lord.

²² The Lord will strike^(A) Egypt with a plague;^(B) he will strike them and heal them. They will turn^(C) to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal^(D) them.