³ What will you do on the day of reckoning,^(A)
    when disaster^(B) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?^(C)
    Where will you leave your riches?

⁷     to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless.^(A)
Therefore I call her
    Rahab^(B) the Do-Nothing.

⁷ How awful that day^(A) will be!
    No other will be like it.
It will be a time of trouble^(B) for Jacob,
    but he will be saved^(C) out of it.

¹⁵ Why do you cry out over your wound,
    your pain that has no cure?^(A)
Because of your great guilt and many sins
    I have done these things to you.^(B)

¹⁶ “‘But all who devour^(C) you will be devoured;
    all your enemies will go into exile.^(D)
Those who plunder^(E) you will be plundered;
    all who make spoil of you I will despoil.
¹⁷ But I will restore you to health
    and heal^(F) your wounds,’
declares the Lord,
‘because you are called an outcast,^(G)
    Zion for whom no one cares.’^(H)

“The people who survive the sword
    will find favor^(B) in the wilderness;
    I will come to give rest^(C) to Israel.”

“I have loved^(D) you with an everlasting love;
    I have drawn^(E) you with unfailing kindness.