¹⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord God: ^(A)Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; ^(B)and he shall carry off its wealth^{[a] (C)}and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army.

^20 (A)I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he labored, because they worked for me, declares the Lord God.