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They have dug (A)deep [a]in corruption
As in the days of (B)Gibeah;
He will (C)remember their iniquity;
He will punish their sins.

Grapes in the Wilderness

10 I found Israel like (D)grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your fathers as the (E)earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to (F)Baal-peor and devoted themselves to [b](G)shame,
And they became as (H)detestable as that which they loved.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:9 Lit they have corrupted
  2. Hosea 9:10 Baal

They have deeply corrupted themselves
    as in the days of Gibeah;
he will remember their iniquity;
    he will punish their sins.(A)

10 Like grapes in the wilderness,
    I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree,
    in its first season,
    I saw your ancestors.
But they came to Baal-peor
    and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame
    and became detestable like the thing they loved.(B)

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