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

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