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They deeply corrupted themselves[a]
    as in the days of Gibeah;
he will remember their sin,
    he will punish their sins.
10 Like the grapes in the wilderness,
    I found Israel.
Like early ripened fruit on the fig tree in the first season,[b]
    I saw your ancestors.[c]
They themselves came to Baal Peor,
    and they consecrated themselves to shame.
And they became detestable things,
    like the thing they love.[d]
11 Ephraim’s glory is like a bird;
    it will fly away—
        no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:9 Literally “They made deep, they corrupted themselves”
  2. Hosea 9:10 Or “in the beginning”
  3. Hosea 9:10 Or “fathers”
  4. Hosea 9:10 Literally “like loving things”