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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.
11 As for Ephraim, their (I)glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!

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Footnotes

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