¹⁷ “Therefore this is what the Lord says: You have not obeyed me; you have not proclaimed freedom to your own people. So I now proclaim ‘freedom’ for you,^(A) declares the Lord—‘freedom’ to fall by the sword, plague^(B) and famine.^(C) I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth.^(D)

¹⁷ Indeed, all who are determined to go to Egypt to settle there will die by the sword, famine and plague;^(A) not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.’