What will you do on the day of punishment
when devastation comes from far away?
Who will you run to for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?

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What will you do on the day of reckoning,(A)
    when disaster(B) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?(C)
    Where will you leave your riches?

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21 Even her mercenaries among her
are like stall-fed calves.
They too will turn back;
together they will flee;
they will not take their stand,
for the day of their calamity is coming on them,
the time of their punishment.(A)

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21 The mercenaries(A) in her ranks
    are like fattened calves.(B)
They too will turn and flee(C) together,
    they will not stand their ground,
for the day(D) of disaster is coming upon them,
    the time(E) for them to be punished.

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25 And you, profane and wicked prince of Israel,[a](A) the day has come(B) for your punishment.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 21:25 = King Zedekiah
  2. 21:25 Lit come in the time of the punishment of the end, also in v. 29

25 “‘You profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come,(A) whose time of punishment has reached its climax,(B)

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29 While they offer false visions(A)
and lying divinations about you,
the time has come to put you
to the necks of the profane wicked ones;
the day has come
for final punishment.

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29 Despite false visions concerning you
    and lying divinations(A) about you,
it will be laid on the necks
    of the wicked who are to be slain,
whose day has come,
    whose time of punishment has reached its climax.(B)

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Ephraim will become a desolation(A)
on the day of punishment;(B)
I announce what is certain
among the tribes of Israel.(C)

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Ephraim will be laid waste(A)
    on the day of reckoning.(B)
Among the tribes of Israel
    I proclaim what is certain.(C)

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The best of them is like a brier;(A)
the most upright is worse than a hedge of thorns.(B)
The day of your watchmen,
the day of your punishment, is coming;(C)
at this time their panic is here.(D)

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The best of them is like a brier,(A)
    the most upright worse than a thorn(B) hedge.
The day God visits you has come,
    the day your watchmen sound the alarm.
    Now is the time of your confusion.(C)

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then the Lord knows how to rescue(A) the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,(B)

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if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials(A) and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.(B)

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