⁵ This is what the Lord says:

¹⁵ But the king rebelled^(A) against him by sending his envoys to Egypt^(B) to get horses and a large army.^(C) Will he succeed? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the treaty and yet escape?^(D)

¹⁶ “‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, he shall die^(E) in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose treaty he broke.^{(F) 17} Pharaoh^(G) with his mighty army and great horde will be of no help to him in war, when ramps^(H) are built and siege works erected to destroy many lives.^(I)