⁵ and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose^(A) Israel, I swore with uplifted hand^(B) to the descendants of Jacob and revealed myself to them in Egypt. With uplifted hand I said to them, “I am the Lord your God.^(C)” ⁶ On that day I swore^(D) to them that I would bring them out of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey,^(E) the most beautiful of all lands.^(F)

⁴ Because I am going to cut off the righteous and the wicked, my sword^(A) will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.^{(B) 5} Then all people will know that I the Lord have drawn my sword^(C) from its sheath; it will not return^(D) again.’^(E)