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What will they do on the day of an appointed festival
    or on Yahweh’s festival days?
Even if they escape without being destroyed,
    Egypt will capture them
        and Memphis will bury them.
            Weeds will grow over their silver treasures.
            Thorns will grow over their tents.
The time for them to be punished will come.
    The time for them to pay for their sins will come.
    When this happens, Israel will know it.
    They think that prophets are fools
    and that spiritual people are crazy.
        They have sinned a lot, and they are very hostile.

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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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