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In the time of their judgment[a] they shall shine
    and dart about as sparks through stubble;(A)

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  1. 3:7 Judgment: the Greek episkopē is God’s loving judgment of those who have been faithful to him; the same word is used in 14:11 for the punishment of the wicked at God’s judgment. Cf. also v. 13.

while the Egyptians buried those whom the Lord had struck down, every firstborn; on their gods, too, the Lord executed judgments.(A)

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13 know for certain that the Lord, your God, will no longer dispossess these nations at your approach. Instead they will be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge for your sides and thorns for your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord, your God, has given you.(A)

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II

Their idols are silver and gold,(A)
    the work of human hands.(B)

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15 They have acted shamefully, committing abominations,
    yet they are not at all ashamed,
    they do not know how to blush.
Therefore they will fall among the fallen;
    in the time of their punishment they shall stumble,
    says the Lord.(A)

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15 They are nothing, objects of ridicule;
    they will perish in their time of punishment.

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25 The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, has said: See! I will punish Amon[a] of Thebes and Egypt, gods, kings, Pharaoh, and those who trust in him.(A)

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  1. 46:25 Amon: the sun-god worshiped at Thebes in Upper Egypt.

15 All their misfortune began in Gilgal;[a]
    yes, there I rejected them.
Because of their wicked deeds
    I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no longer;
    all their princes are rebels.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:15 Gilgal: possibly a reference to Saul’s disobedience to Samuel (1 Sm 13:7–14; 15), or to the idolatry practiced in that place (see note on Hos 4:15).