Hosea 9:8-10
Living Bible
8 “I appointed the prophets to guard my people, but the people have blocked them at every turn and publicly declared their hatred, even in the Temple of the Lord. 9 The things my people do are as depraved as what they did in Gibeah[a] long ago. The Lord does not forget. He will surely punish them.
10 “O Israel, how well I remember those first delightful days when I led you through the wilderness! How refreshing was your love! How satisfying, like the early figs of summer in their first season! But then you deserted me for Baal-peor,[b] to give yourselves to other gods, and soon you were as foul as they.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Hosea 9:9 what they did in Gibeah, see Judges 19:14ff.
- Hosea 9:10 But then you deserted me for Baal-peor, the god of Peor, a city of Moab (Numbers 23).
Hosea 9:8-10
New King James Version
8 The (A)watchman of Ephraim is with my God;
But the prophet is a [a]fowler’s snare in all his ways—
Enmity in the house of his God.
9 (B)They are deeply corrupted,
As in the days of (C)Gibeah.
He will remember their iniquity;
He will punish their sins.
10 “I found Israel
Like grapes in the (D)wilderness;
I saw your fathers
As the (E)firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to (F)Baal Peor,
And [b]separated themselves to that shame;
(G)They became an abomination like the thing they loved.
Footnotes
- Hosea 9:8 One who catches birds in a trap or snare
- Hosea 9:10 Or dedicated
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