Hosea 9:8-10

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⁸While Ephraim stands watch with my God,
    the prophet has snares set that will trap his ways,
        and hostility lodges in the Temple of his God.
⁹They have corrupted themselves deeply,
    as did Gibeah^[a] in its day.
Therefore God^[b] will remember their lawlessness,
    and he will pay them back for their sins.

¹⁰“I found Israel,
    as one finds^[c] grapes in the wilderness;
Your ancestors seemed to me like the fruit
    gleaned from a fig tree’s first harvest.
When they went to Baal-peor,^[d]
    they devoted themselves to that filth,
and they became loathsome,
    like what they loved.

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Hosea 9:9 Cf. Judg 19:1
Hosea 9:9 Lit. he
Hosea 9:10 The Heb. lacks finds
Hosea 9:10 Cf. Num 25:1-3

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Hosea 9:8-10

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