¹¹ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Strike your hands together and stamp your feet and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked and detestable practices of the people of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine and plague.^(A)

²⁴ I will strengthen^(A) the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword^(B) in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan^(C) before him like a mortally wounded man.