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The days of visitation have come.
    The days of reckoning have come.
Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool,
    and the man who is inspired to be insane,
    because of the abundance of your sins,
    and because your hostility is great.
A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God.
    A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths,
    and hostility in the house of his God.

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(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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