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For behold, they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them up; (A)Memphis will bury them.
Weeds will possess their desirable items of silver;
(B)Thorns will be in their tents.

The days of (C)punishment have come;
The days of (D)recompense have come;
[a]Let Israel know this!
The prophet is an (E)ignorant fool,
The [b]inspired man has (F)madness,
Because of the abundance of your (G)iniquity
And because your hostility has abounded.
Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:7 Or Israel will know it
  2. Hosea 9:7 Lit man of the spirit