¹⁰ “Thus says the Lord God:

²⁴ And ^(A)I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put ^(B)my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him ^(C)like a man mortally wounded. ²⁵ I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. ^(D)Then they shall know that I am the Lord, ^(E)when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.

¹¹ “For thus says the Lord God: ^(A)The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.

¹³ The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of ^(A)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt: