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10 When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness.
I viewed your ancestors[a] like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season.
Then they came to Baal Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame—
they became as detestable as what they loved.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:10 tn Heb “fathers”; a number of more recent English versions use the more general “ancestors” here.

10 “When I found Israel,
    it was like finding grapes in the desert;
when I saw your ancestors,
    it was like seeing the early fruit(A) on the fig(B) tree.
But when they came to Baal Peor,(C)
    they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol(D)
    and became as vile as the thing they loved.

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