¹⁶ There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, ‘Make brick!’ And indeed your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people.”

²⁴ Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion, ^(A)do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of ^(B)Egypt.