They [a]are deeply set: they are corrupt as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

10 I found Israel like [b]grapes in the wilderness: I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and their abominations were according to [c]their lovers.

11 Ephraim their glory shall flee away like a bird: from the birth [d]and from the womb, and from the conception.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:9 This people is so rooted in their wickedness, that Gibeah which was like to Sodom, was never more corrupt, Judg. 19:22.
  2. Hosea 9:10 Meaning, that he so esteemed them and delighted in them.
  3. Hosea 9:10 They were as abominable unto me, as their lovers the idols.
  4. Hosea 9:11 Signifying, that God would destroy their children by these sundry means, and so consume them by little and little.

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