For behold, they are going away from destruction;
    but (A)Egypt shall gather them;
    Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess (B)their precious things of silver;
    (C)thorns shall be in their tents.

(D)The days of punishment have come;
    the days of recompense have come;
    Israel shall know it.
(E)The prophet is a fool;
    the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
    and great hatred.
The prophet is (F)the watchman of Ephraim with my God;
yet (G)a fowler's snare is on all his ways,
    and hatred in the house of his God.

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