By wrongdoing an evil person is (A)ensnared,
But the righteous (B)sings and rejoices.

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Evildoers are snared by their own sin,(A)
    but the righteous shout for joy and are glad.

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18 Then it will be that the one who flees the sound of terror will fall into the pit,
And the one who [a]climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare;
For the (A)windows [b]above are opened, and the (B)foundations of the earth shake.

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  1. Isaiah 24:18 Lit goes up from the midst of
  2. Isaiah 24:18 Lit from the height; i.e., heaven

18 Whoever flees(A) at the sound of terror
    will fall into a pit;(B)
whoever climbs out of the pit
    will be caught in a snare.(C)

The floodgates of the heavens(D) are opened,
    the foundations of the earth shake.(E)

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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 [a]hostility in the house of his God.

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  1. Hosea 9:8 Or persecution

The prophet, along with my God,
    is the watchman over Ephraim,[a]
yet snares(A) await him on all his paths,
    and hostility in the house of his God.(B)

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Footnotes

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