6 For behold, they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them up; aMemphis will bury them.
Weeds will possess their desirable items of silver;
bThorns will be in their tents.
7 The days of apunishment have come;
The days of brecompense have come;
Let Israel know this!
The prophet is an cignorant fool,
The inspired man has dmadness,
Because of the abundance of your einiquity
And because your hostility has abounded.
8 Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.