²² Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: “^(A)Israel is My son, My firstborn. ²³ So I said to you, ‘^(B)Let My son go so that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, ^(C)I am going to kill your son, your firstborn.”’”

^14 (A)I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; ^(B)when he does wrong, I will discipline him with a rod of men and with strokes of sons of mankind, ¹⁵ but My favor shall not depart from him, ^(C)as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from you.