Hosea 9:8-10
EasyEnglish Bible
8 God has sent his prophet to warn the people of Ephraim.[a]
But wherever he goes, people try to stop him.
They speak angry words against him, even in the temple of his God.
9 The Israelites do very wicked things,
like the terrible sins that they did at Gibeah.[b]
God will not forget the wicked things that they have done.
He will surely punish them for their sins.
The Lord warns his people
10 The Lord says,
‘When I first found Israel, they gave me pleasure.
It was as if I had found grapes in the wilderness.
Your ancestors made me happy,
like the first fruit on a young fig tree.[c]
But then they came to the god, Baal-Peor.[d]
They began to worship that disgusting idol.
They became as disgusting as the idol that they loved so much.
Footnotes
- 9:8 Perhaps Hosea is talking about himself as the prophet that God has sent to warn his people. Ephraim is another name for Israel, the northern kingdom.
- 9:9 Gibeah is where very bad things happened. See Judges 19—20.
- 9:10 A fig is a kind of fruit.
- 9:10 Israel's people did bad things when they worshipped the false god, Baal-Peor. See Numbers 25:1-5.
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