³² Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation,^(A) and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand.

⁵ Although we are of the same flesh and blood^(A) as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery.^(B) Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”^(C)

Human Plans and God’s Plans