17 And all the men who are determined to go to Egypt to reside there will die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.* None of them will survive or escape the calamity that I will bring on them.”’

18 “For this is what Jehovah of armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,+ so my wrath will be poured out on you if you go to Egypt, and you will become a curse, an object of horror, a malediction, and a reproach,+ and you will never again see this place.’