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For even if they escape destruction,
    Egypt shall gather them,
    Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver;[a]
    thorns shall be in their tents.

The days of punishment have come,
    the days of recompense have come;
    Israel cries,[b]
“The prophet is a fool,
    the man of the spirit is mad!”
Because of your great iniquity,
    your hostility is great.
The prophet is a sentinel for my God over Ephraim,
yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways,
    and hostility in the house of his God.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. Hosea 9:7 Cn Compare Gk: Heb shall know

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