¹³And he took from the seed of the kingship, and he made with him a covenant, and he brought him under oath,^v and he took the rulers of the land, ¹⁴so that they would be a humble kingdom and not lift itself up to keep his covenant in order for it to stand.^w ¹⁵But he rebelled against him by sending his messengers to Egypt to give to him horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Will he escape doing these things, and can he break the covenant and escape? ¹⁶As I live,’^x declares^y the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely^z in the place of the king who made^a him king, who despised his oath and who broke his covenant with him—in the midst of Babylon he will die. ¹⁷And not with a great army and with a great crowd will Pharaoh work^b with him in the war, at the pouring out of a siege ramp and the building of siege works to destroy many lives. ¹⁸And he despised the oath to break covenant. And, look, he gave his hand in pledge, and yet he did all of these things. He will not escape.’ ¹⁹Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘As I live,^c surely^d my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke I will return upon his head.

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Footnotes

vLiterally “and he brought him into oath”
wLiterally “to standing her”; or “to let her stand”
xLiterally “live I”
yLiterally “declaration of”
zLiterally “if not”
aLiterally “who he was making”
bOr “help/aid”
cLiterally “live I”
dLiterally “if not”