For even if they flee from devastation,
Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them.(A)
Thistles will take possession of their precious silver;
thorns will invade their tents.(B)
The days of punishment have come;(C)
the days of retribution have come.(D)
Let Israel recognize it!
The prophet is a fool,(E)
and the inspired man is insane,(F)
because of the magnitude
of your iniquity and hostility.(G)
Ephraim’s watchman is with my God.
Yet the prophet encounters a bird trap
on all his pathways.(H)
Hostility is in the house of his God!

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