10 I found Israel like (A)grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the (B)earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to (C)Baal-peor and devoted themselves to [a](D)shame,
And they became as (E)detestable as that which they loved.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:10 I.e. Baal

The Prophet Acknowledges

Woe is me! For I am
Like the fruit pickers, like the (A)grape gatherers.
There is not a cluster of grapes to eat,
Or a (B)first-ripe fig which [a]I crave.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 7:1 Lit my soul

12 All your fortifications are (A)fig trees with [a](B)ripe fruit—
When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:12 Lit first fruits