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The days of punishment have come;
    the days of recompense have come.
Israel will cry out,[a]
“The prophet is a fool;
    the man of the spirit is mad!”
Because of your great iniquity,
    your hostility is great.(A)

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  1. 9.7 Or will know

Paul Appeals to Agrippa to Believe

24 While he was making this defense, Festus exclaimed, “You are out of your mind, Paul! Too much learning is driving you insane!”(A) 25 But Paul said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I am speaking the sober truth.(B)

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The best of them is like a brier,
    the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of their[a] sentinels, of their[b] punishment, has come;
    now their confusion is at hand.(A)

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  1. 7.4 Heb your
  2. 7.4 Heb your

11 When Jehu came back to his master’s officers, they said to him, “Is everything all right? Why did that madman come to you?” He answered them, “You know the sort and how they babble.”

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21 When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.”(A)

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If a prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.(A) 10 And they shall bear their punishment—the punishment of the inquirer and the punishment of the prophet shall be the same—

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Thus says the Lord God: Alas for the senseless prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!(A)

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14 Your prophets have seen for you
    false and deceptive visions;
they have not exposed your iniquity
    to restore your fortunes
but have seen oracles for you
    that are false and misleading.(A)

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15 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
    at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

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What will you do on the day of punishment,
    in the calamity that will come from far away?
To whom will you flee for help,
    and where will you leave your wealth,(A)

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10 and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(A) 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false,(B) 12 so that all who have not believed the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.(C)

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13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.(A)

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22 for these are days of vengeance, as a fulfillment of all that is written.(A)

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