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14 and if a feeling of jealousy(A) comes over the husband and he becomes jealous because of his wife who has defiled herself – or if a feeling of jealousy comes over him and he becomes jealous of her though she has not defiled herself – 

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14 The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of confusion.
The leaders have made Egypt stagger in all she does,
as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.

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12 My people consult their wooden idols,(A)
and their divining rods inform them.
For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray;(B)
they act promiscuously(C)
in disobedience to[a] their God.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:12 Lit promiscuously from under

On that day’ – this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies – ‘I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered.(A) I will banish the prophets[a] and the unclean spirit from the land.

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  1. 13:2 = false prophets

For God has not given us a spirit of fear,(A) but one of power,[a](B) love,(C) and sound judgement.

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  1. 1:7 Or For the Spirit God gave us does not make us fearful, but gives us power