⁸ The prophet, along with my God,
    is the watchman over Ephraim,^[a]
yet snares^(A) await him on all his paths,
    and hostility in the house of his God.^(B)
9 They have sunk deep into corruption,^(C)
    as in the days of Gibeah.^(D)
God will remember^(E) their wickedness
    and punish them for their sins.^(F)

¹⁰ “When I found Israel,
    it was like finding grapes in the desert;
when I saw your ancestors,
    it was like seeing the early fruit^(G) on the fig^(H) tree.
But when they came to Baal Peor,^(I)
    they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol^(J)
    and became as vile as the thing they loved.