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What will you do on the day of the appointed festivals
    and on the feast days of the Lord?
Know this! Even if they flee from destruction,
    Egypt will gather them up.
    Memphis will bury them.
    Thistles will overgrow their silver treasures.
    Thorns will grow inside their tents.
The days of reckoning have come.
    The days of retribution have come.
    Israel should know this!

Israel Rejects the Prophets

    The prophet is treated like a fool,
    and the man of the Spirit is called crazy,
    because your guilt is enormous,
    and because your hostility is so great.

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What will you do(A) on the day of your appointed festivals,(B)
    on the feast days of the Lord?
Even if they escape from destruction,
    Egypt will gather them,(C)
    and Memphis(D) will bury them.(E)
Their treasures of silver(F) will be taken over by briers,
    and thorns(G) will overrun their tents.
The days of punishment(H) are coming,
    the days of reckoning(I) are at hand.
    Let Israel know this.
Because your sins(J) are so many
    and your hostility so great,
the prophet is considered a fool,(K)
    the inspired person a maniac.(L)

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