Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
Watch over ... for evil - (Jeremiah 1:10; Ezekiel 7:6). The God whose providence is ever solicitously watching over His people for good shall solicitously, as it were, watch for their hurt. (Contrast Jeremiah 31:28; Jeremiah 32:41.)