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For suppose they escape the destruction —
Egypt will round them up,
Memphis will bury them.
And their precious treasures of silver?
Nettles will possess them,
thorns will be in their tents.
The days of punishment have come,
the days of retribution are here,
and Isra’el knows it.
[Yet they cry,] “The prophet is a fool,
the man of the spirit has gone crazy!”
Because your iniquity is so great,
the hostility [against you] is great.
The watchman of Efrayim is with my God,
but a prophet has a fowler’s snare set on all his paths
and hostility even in the house of his God.

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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