Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.(A)

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28 They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.[a](A)
29 They angered the Lord with their deeds,
and a plague broke out against them.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 106:28 Lit sacrifices for dead ones

Ephraim Bereaved of Offspring

10 I discovered Israel
like grapes in the wilderness.(A)
I saw your ancestors
like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season.(B)
But they went to Baal-peor,(C)
consecrated themselves to Shame,[a](D)
and became abhorrent,(E)
like the thing they loved.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:10 = Baal

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