This is what the Lord ·All-Powerful [Almighty; of Heaven’s Armies; ^Tof hosts] says: “The ·special days when you fast in [fasts of] the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become good, joyful, happy feasts ·in [^Lfor the house of] Judah. ·But you must [So; Therefore] love truth and peace.”

All of those left alive of the ·people [nations] who came to fight Jerusalem will come back to Jerusalem year after year to worship the King, the Lord ·All-Powerful [Almighty; of Heaven’s Armies; ^Tof hosts], and to celebrate the Feast of ·Shelters [Booths; Tabernacles; Deut. 31:9–13].

If the Egyptians do not go to Jerusalem, they will not have rain. Then the Lord will send them the same ·terrible disease [plague] he sent the other nations that did not celebrate the Feast of ·Shelters [Booths; Tabernacles].

This will be the punishment for Egypt and any nation that does not go up to celebrate the Feast of Shelters.