Distress and Help

²² If you listen carefully to what he says and do^(A) all that I say, I will be an enemy^(B) to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you.

⁸ For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye^(A)—

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness^(B) on the part of God’s people.^(C)

² “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup^(A) that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling.^(B) Judah^(C) will be besieged as well as Jerusalem.

⁸ I will sell your sons^(A) and daughters to the people of Judah,^(B) and they will sell them to the Sabeans,^(C) a nation far away.” The Lord has spoken.^(D)