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Hosea 9:10

American Standard Version

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

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Hosea 9:10 in other translations

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness.
I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season;
but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing,
and became abominable like that which they loved.

Hosea 9:10 · World English Bible

Hosea 9:10 in context

  1. 8Ephraim was a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler’s snare is in all his ways, and enmity in the house of his God.
  2. 9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
  3. 10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
  4. 11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
  5. 12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!