²⁴ “‘No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns.^(A) Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.

²⁶ They will live there in safety^(A) and will build houses and plant^(B) vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment^(C) on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.^(D)’”

²² I will execute judgment^(A) on him with plague and bloodshed;^(B) I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones^(C) and burning sulfur^(D) on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.^(E)