Hosea 9:10
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
From Former Glory to a History of Corruption
10 Like grapes in the desert,
I found Israel;
Like the first fruits of the fig tree, its first to ripen,(A)
I looked on your ancestors.
But when they came to Baal-peor[a](B)
and consecrated themselves to the Shameful One,
they became as abhorrent as the thing they loved.
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