Jeremiah 44:26–30

²⁶“Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, all you Judeans who live in the land of Egypt: ‘I have sworn by my great name,ⁱ says the Lord, that my name will never again be invoked by anyone of Judah in all the land of Egypt,^j saying, “As the Lord God lives.” ²⁷I am watching over them for disaster and not for good,^k and everyone from Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine until they are finished off. ²⁸Those who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah only few in number,^l and the whole remnant of Judah, the ones going to the land of Egypt to stay there for a while, will know whose word stands, mine or theirs! ²⁹This will be a sign to you’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘that I will punish you in this place, so you may know that my words of disaster concerning you will certainly come to pass.^{m 30}This is what the Lord says: I am about to hand over Pharaoh Hophra,ⁿ Egypt’s king, to his enemies, to those who intend to take his life, just as I handed over Judah’s King Zedekiah^o to Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar, who was his enemy, the one who intended to take his life.’ ”