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

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The days of punishment have come;(A)
the days of retribution have come.(B)
Let Israel recognize it!
The prophet is a fool,(C)
and the inspired man is insane,(D)
because of the magnitude
of your guilt and hostility.(E)
Ephraim’s watchman is with my God.
The prophet encounters a fowler’s snare
on all his ways.(F)
Hostility is in the house of his God!

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