²⁶But listen to the Lord’s message. Listen, all you Jews living in Egypt. ‘I take an oath in my own great name,’ says the Lord. ‘I promise that no one from Judah who lives anywhere in Egypt will ever again pray in my name. None of them will ever take an oath and say, “You can be sure that the Lord and King is alive.”

²⁷“ ‘I am watching over them to do them harm and not good. The Jews in Egypt will die of war and hunger until all of them are destroyed. ²⁸Some will not be killed. They will return to Judah from Egypt. But they will be very few. Then all of the people of Judah who came to live in Egypt will know the truth. They will know whether what I say or what they say will come true.

²⁹“ ‘I will give you a miraculous sign that I will punish you in this place,’ announces the Lord. ‘Then you can be sure that my warnings of harm against you will come true.’ ³⁰The Lord says, ‘I am going to hand Pharaoh Hophra over to his enemies who want to take his life. In the same way, I handed King Zedekiah over to Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylonia. He was the enemy who wanted to take Zedekiah’s life.’ ” Hophra was king of Egypt.

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