Hosea 9:8-10
Contemporary English Version
8 Israel, the Lord sent me
to look after you.[a]
But you trap his prophets
and flood his temple
with your hatred.
9 (A) You are brutal and corrupt,
as were the men of Gibeah.[b]
But God remembers your sin,
and you will be punished.
Sin's Terrible Results
10 (B) Israel, when I, the Lord,
found you long ago
it was like finding
grapes in a barren desert
or tender young figs.
Then you worshiped Baal Peor,
that disgusting idol,
and you became as disgusting
as the idol you loved.
Hosea 9:8-10
King James Version
8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
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