Hosea 9:10-12

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¹⁰ Like grapes in the wilderness,
    I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree,
    in its first season,
    I saw your ancestors.
But they came to Baal-peor
    and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame
    and became detestable like the thing they loved.^(A)
11 Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird—
    no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!^(B)
12 Even if they bring up children,
    I will bereave them until no one is left.
Woe to them indeed
    when I depart from them!^(C)