²⁸ Those who escape the sword^(A) and return to the land of Judah from Egypt will be very few.^(B) Then the whole remnant^(C) of Judah who came to live in Egypt will know whose word will stand^(D)—mine or theirs.^(E)

¹⁴ None of the remnant of Judah who have gone to live in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, to which they long to return and live; none will return except a few fugitives.”^(A)

²⁵ This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives^(A) have done what you said you would do when you promised, ‘We will certainly carry out the vows we made to burn incense and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven.’^(B)

“Go ahead then, do what you promised! Keep your vows!^{(C) 26} But hear the word of the Lord, all you Jews living in Egypt:^(D) ‘I swear^(E) by my great name,’ says the Lord, ‘that no one from Judah living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name or swear, “As surely as the Sovereign^(F) Lord lives.”^(G)

¹² In that day the Lord will thresh^(A) from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt,^(B) and you, Israel, will be gathered^(C) up one by one. ¹³ And in that day^(D) a great trumpet^(E) will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled^(F) in Egypt^(G) will come and worship^(H) the Lord on the holy mountain^(I) in Jerusalem.

⁶ But did not my words^(A) and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors?^(B)

“Then they repented and said, ‘The Lord Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve,^(C) just as he determined to do.’”^(D)

²⁹ “‘This will be the sign^(A) to you that I will punish^(B) you in this place,’ declares the Lord, ‘so that you will know that my threats of harm against you will surely stand.’^(C)