¹⁴ “I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.^{(A) 15} You will be a reproach^(B) and a taunt, a warning^(C) and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke.^(D) I the Lord have spoken.^(E)

¹² I will take away the remnant^(A) of Judah who were determined to go to Egypt to settle there. They will all perish in Egypt; they will fall by the sword or die from famine. From the least to the greatest,^(B) they will die by sword or famine.^(C) They will become a curse and an object of horror, a curse and an object of reproach.^(D)

⁸ Why arouse my anger with what your hands have made,^(A) burning incense^(B) to other gods in Egypt,^(C) where you have come to live?^(D) You will destroy yourselves and make yourselves a curse^[a] and an object of reproach^(E) among all the nations on earth.

¹⁸ This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and wrath^(A) have been poured out on those who lived in Jerusalem,^(B) so will my wrath be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You will be a curse^[a](C) and an object of horror,^(D) a curse^[b] and an object of reproach;^(E) you will never see this place again.’^(F)