Hosea 9:9-11
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9 The Israelites do very wicked things,
like the terrible sins that they did at Gibeah.[a]
God will not forget the wicked things that they have done.
He will surely punish them for their sins.
The Lord warns his people
10 The Lord says,
‘When I first found Israel, they gave me pleasure.
It was as if I had found grapes in the wilderness.
Your ancestors made me happy,
like the first fruit on a young fig tree.[b]
But then they came to the god, Baal-Peor.[c]
They began to worship that disgusting idol.
They became as disgusting as the idol that they loved so much.
11 The great things that Israel enjoys will soon disappear.
They will be like birds that fly away!
The women of Israel will no longer give birth to children.
They will not even become pregnant.
Footnotes
- 9:9 Gibeah is where very bad things happened. See Judges 19—20.
- 9:10 A fig is a kind of fruit.
- 9:10 Israel's people did bad things when they worshipped the false god, Baal-Peor. See Numbers 25:1-5.
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