¹² the Sidonians, the Amalekites^(A) and the Maonites^[a](B) oppressed you^(C) and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands?

²² and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

²⁴ “‘No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns.^(A) Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.

⁵ For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.^[a](A)

⁶ You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,^(A) that you might send them far from their homeland.