¹⁷ thus says the Lord of hosts: I am sending against them sword, famine, and pestilence. I will make them like rotten figs, so spoiled that they cannot be eaten. ¹⁸ I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse, a desolation, a hissing, and a reproach to all the nations among which I have banished them,^(A)

¹⁴ so that none of the remnant of Judah who came to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive.^(A) No one shall return to the land of Judah. Even though they long to return and live there, they shall not return except as refugees.

²⁸ Those who escape the sword to return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah shall be few in number. The whole remnant of Judah who came to Egypt to live shall know whose word stands, mine or theirs.^(A)