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“What will you do on the designated holiday,
    when the Lord’s festival comes?
Look! They have gone away because of the destruction—
    Egypt will gather them up,
        and Memphis[a] will bury them.
Weeds will overgrow their inheritance,[b]
    and thorns will grow[c] in their tents.
The time for your judgment has now come;
    payday is here—
        and Israel knows it.
The prophet is a fool,
    and the spiritual man is insane.
Because of your great sin,
    the hatred against you[d] is great.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:6 So LXX. Heb. Moph; i.e. the capital of Lower Egypt
  2. Hosea 9:6 Lit. their precious silver
  3. Hosea 9:6 Lit. be
  4. Hosea 9:7 The Heb. lacks against you