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Even if you escape destruction from Assyria,
    Egypt will conquer you, and Memphis[a] will bury you.
Nettles will take over your treasures of silver;
    thistles will invade your ruined homes.

The time of Israel’s punishment has come;
    the day of payment is here.
    Soon Israel will know this all too well.
Because of your great sin and hostility,
    you say, “The prophets are crazy
    and the inspired men are fools!”
The prophet is a watchman over Israel[b] for my God,
    yet traps are laid for him wherever he goes.
    He faces hostility even in the house of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:6 Memphis was the capital of northern Egypt.
  2. 9:8 Hebrew Ephraim, referring to the northern kingdom of Israel; also in 9:11, 13, 16.

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