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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

Even if they escape from destruction,
    Egypt will gather them,(A)
    and Memphis(B) will bury them.(C)
Their treasures of silver(D) will be taken over by briers,
    and thorns(E) will overrun their tents.
The days of punishment(F) are coming,
    the days of reckoning(G) are at hand.
    Let Israel know this.
Because your sins(H) are so many
    and your hostility so great,
the prophet is considered a fool,(I)
    the inspired person a maniac.(J)
The prophet, along with my God,
    is the watchman over Ephraim,[a]
yet snares(K) await him on all his paths,
    and hostility in the house of his God.(L)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:8 Or The prophet is the watchman over Ephraim, / the people of my God