Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear falsely, and [a](A)offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after (B)other gods that you have not known, 10 then (C)come and stand before Me in (D)this house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—that you may do all these abominations?

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  1. Jeremiah 7:9 Or burn incense

Ephraim Punished

(A)Do not rejoice, O Israel, [a]with exultation like the [b]nations!
For you have (B)played the harlot, [c]forsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on [d]every threshing floor.

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  1. Hosea 9:1 Lit to
  2. Hosea 9:1 Lit peoples
  3. Hosea 9:1 Lit away from your God
  4. Hosea 9:1 Lit all threshing floors of grain

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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  1. Hosea 9:10 I.e. Baal