²² And the Lord will strike Egypt, striking but ^(A)healing; so they will ^(B)return to the Lord, and He will respond to their pleas and heal them.

²⁶ I shall hand them over to those who are ^(A)seeking their lives, that is, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to his ^[a]officers. ^(B)Afterward, however, it will be inhabited as in the days of old,” declares the Lord.