⁴ The fading flower of his beautiful splendor,
which is on the summit above the rich valley,
will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest.^(A)
Whoever sees it will swallow it
while it is still in his hand.

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.

7 How sad for me!
For I am like one who—
when the summer fruit has been gathered
after the gleaning of the grape harvest^(A)—
finds no grape cluster to eat,
no early fig, which I crave.^(B)