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But when they came to Baal Peor, they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol and became as vile as the thing they loved. <a href="/nlt/hosea/9.htm">New Living Translation</a> The LORD says, “O Israel, when I first found you, it was like finding fresh grapes in the desert. When I saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the first ripe figs of the season. But then they deserted me for Baal-peor, giving themselves to that shameful idol. Soon they became vile, as vile as the god they worshiped. <a href="/esv/hosea/9.htm">English Standard Version</a> Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved. <a href="/bsb/hosea/9.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved. <a href="/kjv/hosea/9.htm">King James Bible</a> I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. <a href="/nkjv/hosea/9.htm">New King James Version</a> “I found Israel Like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to that shame; They became an abomination like the thing they loved. <a href="/nasb_/hosea/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as detestable as that which they loved. <a href="/nasb/hosea/9.htm">NASB 1995</a> I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as detestable as that which they loved. <a href="/nasb77/hosea/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a> I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as detestable as that which they loved. <a href="/lsb/hosea/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as detestable as that which they loved. <a href="/amp/hosea/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a> I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness [an unexpected and refreshing delight]; I saw your fathers (ancestors) as the first ripe fruit on the fig tree in its first season, But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to shamefulness [the worship of Baal], And [because of their spiritual and physical adultery] they became as detestable and loathsome as the thing they loved. <a href="/csb/hosea/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> I discovered Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your ancestors like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, consecrated themselves to Shame, and became abhorrent, like the thing they loved. <a href="/hcsb/hosea/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> I discovered Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, consecrated themselves to Shame, and became detestable, like the thing they loved. <a href="/asv/hosea/9.htm">American Standard Version</a> I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved. <a href="/cev/hosea/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Israel, when I, the LORD, found you long ago it was like finding grapes in a barren desert or tender young figs. Then you worshiped Baal Peor, that disgusting idol, and you became as disgusting as the idol you loved. <a href="/erv/hosea/9.htm">English Revised Version</a> I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved. <a href="/gwt/hosea/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> [The LORD said,] "When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert. When I saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the first figs of the harvest. But they went to Baal Peor and worshiped shameful idols. They became as disgusting as the things they worshiped. <a href="/gnt/hosea/9.htm">Good News Translation</a> The LORD says, "When I first found Israel, it was like finding grapes growing in the desert. When I first saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the first ripe figs of the season. But when they came to Mount Peor, they began to worship Baal and soon became as disgusting as the gods they loved. <a href="/isv/hosea/9.htm">International Standard Version</a> "I found Israel, as one finds grapes in the wilderness; Your ancestors seemed to me like the fruit gleaned from a fig tree's first harvest. When they went to Baal-peor, they devoted themselves to that filth, and they became loathsome, like what they loved. <a href="/msb/hosea/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved. <a href="/net/hosea/9.htm">NET Bible</a> When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame--they became as detestable as what they loved. <a href="/nheb/hosea/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved. <a href="/wbt/hosea/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> I found Israel like 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 to that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. <a href="/web/hosea/9.htm">World English Bible</a> I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/hosea/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, "" As the first-fruit in a fig tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, "" They have gone in [to] Ba‘al-Peor, "" And are separated to a shameful thing, "" And have become abominable like their love. <a href="/ylt/hosea/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They -- they have gone in to Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love. <a href="/slt/hosea/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> I found Israel as grapes in the desert; as the first fruit in the fig tree in her beginning I saw your fathers: they went to Baal-Peor, and they will separate themselves to shame, and their abominable things will be according to their love.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/hosea/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved. <a href="/cpdv/hosea/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> I discovered Israel like grapes in the desert. Like the first fruits of the fig tree, I saw their fathers on the end of its branches. But they went in to Baal-peor, and they have been estranged by intermingling, and they have became abominable, just like the things that they chose to love. <a href="/nabre/hosea/9.htm">New American Bible</a> Like grapes in the desert, I found Israel; Like the first fruits of the fig tree, its first to ripen, I looked on your ancestors. But when they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the Shameful One, they became as abhorrent as the thing they loved. <a href="/nrsvce/hosea/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> 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.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/hosea/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw their fathers like the first fruit of the fig tree, but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves to that shameful thing, and became abominable like the things they loved. <a href="/hpbt/hosea/9.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel, and like a fig tree first fruits I have seen their fathers, and they entered to Baal Peor and they separated themselves to shame and they became an abomination like that which they loved<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/hosea/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at her first season; But so soon as they came to Baal-peor, They separated themselves unto the shameful thing, And became detestable like that which they loved. <a href="/sep/hosea/9.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig-tree: they went in to Beel-phegor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved. <a href="/parallel/hosea/9-10.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=1381" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/hosea/9.htm">Hosea Announces Israel's Punishment</a> …9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins. 10<a href="/hebrew/4672.htm" title="4672: mā·ṣā·ṯî (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- To attain to, find. ">I found</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/6025.htm" title="6025: ka·‘ă·nā·ḇîm (Prep-k:: N-mp) -- A grape. From an unused root probably meaning to bear fruit; a grape.">like grapes</a> <a href="/hebrew/4057.htm" title="4057: bam·miḏ·bār (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- A pasture, a desert, speech. From dabar in the sense of driving; a pasture; by implication, a desert; also speech.">in the wilderness.</a> <a href="/hebrew/7200.htm" title="7200: rā·’î·ṯî (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- To see. A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively.">I saw</a> <a href="/hebrew/1.htm" title="1: ’ă·ḇō·w·ṯê·ḵem (N-mpc:: 2mp) -- Father. A primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application).">your fathers</a> <a href="/hebrew/1063.htm" title="1063: kə·ḇik·kū·rāh (Prep-k:: N-fs) -- The first ripe fig, early fig. Feminine of bikkuwr; the early fig.">as the firstfruits</a> <a href="/hebrew/8384.htm" title="8384: ḇiṯ·’ê·nāh (Prep-b:: N-fs) -- Fig tree. Or t:enah; perhaps of foreign derivation; the fig.">of the fig tree</a> <a href="/hebrew/7225.htm" title="7225: bə·rê·šî·ṯāh (Prep-b:: N-fsc:: 3fs) -- Beginning, chief. From the same as ro'sh; the first, in place, time, order or rank.">in its first season.</a> <a href="/hebrew/1992.htm" title="1992: hêm·māh (Pro-3mp) -- They. Or hemmah; masculine plural from halak; they.">But they</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: bā·’ū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">went</a> <a href="/hebrew/1187.htm" title="1187: ḇa·‘al- (Prep) -- Baal of Peor, a Moabite god. From Ba'al and p'owr; Baal of Peor; Baal-Peor, a Moabitish deity."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1187.htm" title="1187: pə·‘ō·wr (N-proper-fs) -- Baal of Peor, a Moabite god. From Ba'al and p'owr; Baal of Peor; Baal-Peor, a Moabitish deity.">to Baal-peor,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5144.htm" title="5144: way·yin·nā·zə·rū (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- A primitive root; to hold aloof, i.e. abstain (i.e. Apostatize); specifically, to set apart, i.e. Devote.">and consecrated</a> <a href="/hebrew/1322.htm" title="1322: lab·bō·šeṯ (Prep-l, Art:: N-fs) -- Shame, shameful thing. From buwsh; shame; by implication an idol.">themselves to Shame;</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: way·yih·yū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">so they became</a> <a href="/hebrew/8251.htm" title="8251: šiq·qū·ṣîm (N-mp) -- Detested thing. Or shiqquts; from shaqats; disgusting, i.e. Filthy; especially idolatrous or an idol.">as detestable</a> <a href="/hebrew/157.htm" title="157: kə·’ā·ho·ḇām (Prep-k:: V-Qal-Inf:: 3mp) -- To love. Or raheb; a primitive root; to have affection for.">as the thing they loved.</a> 11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/jeremiah/2-2.htm">Jeremiah 2:2-3</a> “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. / Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her were found guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD. <a href="/deuteronomy/32-10.htm">Deuteronomy 32:10</a> He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye. <a href="/isaiah/5-1.htm">Isaiah 5:1-4</a> I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. / He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour! / “And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard. ... <a href="/psalms/106-28.htm">Psalm 106:28-29</a> They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods. / So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them. <a href="/numbers/25-1.htm">Numbers 25:1-3</a> While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab, / who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods. / So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them. <a href="/ezekiel/16-8.htm">Ezekiel 16:8-15</a> Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD. / Then I bathed you with water, rinsed off your blood, and anointed you with oil. / I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk. ... <a href="/jeremiah/11-16.htm">Jeremiah 11:16-17</a> The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed. / The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.” <a href="/amos/4-11.htm">Amos 4:11</a> “Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. <a href="/matthew/21-19.htm">Matthew 21:19</a> Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered. <a href="/romans/11-17.htm">Romans 11:17-24</a> Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root, / do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. / You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” ... <a href="/1_corinthians/10-6.htm">1 Corinthians 10:6-11</a> These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did. / Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.” / We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. ... <a href="/revelation/2-14.htm">Revelation 2:14</a> But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality. <a href="/john/15-1.htm">John 15:1-6</a> “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard. / He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful. / You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. ... <a href="/matthew/7-16.htm">Matthew 7:16-20</a> By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? / Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. / A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. ... <a href="/luke/13-6.htm">Luke 13:6-9</a> Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. / So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’ / ‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it. ...</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves to that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.found.<a href="/hosea/11-1.htm">Hosea 11:1</a> When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.<a href="/exodus/19-4.htm">Exodus 19:4-6</a> Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself… <a href="/deuteronomy/32-10.htm">Deuteronomy 32:10</a> He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.grapes.<a href="/hosea/2-15.htm">Hosea 2:15</a> And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.<a href="/numbers/13-23.htm">Numbers 13:23,24</a> And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs… <a href="/isaiah/28-4.htm">Isaiah 28:4</a> And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.but.<a href="/numbers/25-3.htm">Numbers 25:3-18</a> And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel… <a href="/deuteronomy/4-3.htm">Deuteronomy 4:3</a> Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.<a href="/psalms/106-28.htm">Psalm 106:28</a> They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.separated.<a href="/hosea/4-14.htm">Hosea 4:14</a> I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.<a href="/judges/6-32.htm">Judges 6:32</a> Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.<a href="/1_kings/16-31.htm">1 Kings 16:31</a> And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.and their.<a href="/numbers/15-39.htm">Numbers 15:39</a> And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:<a href="/deuteronomy/32-17.htm">Deuteronomy 32:17</a> They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.<a href="/psalms/81-12.htm">Psalm 81:12</a> So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/36-31.htm">Abominable</a> <a href="/daniel/9-27.htm">Abominations</a> <a href="/hosea/2-8.htm">Baal</a> <a href="/psalms/106-28.htm">Baalpeor</a> <a href="/ezekiel/48-11.htm">Consecrated</a> <a href="/daniel/12-11.htm">Detestable</a> <a href="/daniel/11-38.htm">Fathers</a> <a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">Fig</a> <a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">Fig-Tree</a> <a href="/hosea/2-7.htm">First</a> <a href="/nahum/3-12.htm">Firstripe</a> <a href="/jeremiah/24-2.htm">First-Ripe</a> <a href="/hosea/6-10.htm">Found</a> <a href="/hosea/9-2.htm">Grapes</a> <a href="/hosea/9-7.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/hosea/2-1.htm">Loved</a> <a href="/psalms/106-28.htm">Peor</a> <a href="/jeremiah/24-2.htm">Ripe</a> <a href="/hosea/9-5.htm">Season</a> <a href="/hosea/4-14.htm">Separated</a> <a href="/hosea/9-7.htm">Shame</a> <a href="/hosea/6-9.htm">Shameful</a> <a href="/hosea/8-10.htm">Soon</a> <a href="/hosea/9-9.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/hosea/8-10.htm">Time</a> <a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/hosea/2-14.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/micah/3-9.htm">Abominable</a> <a href="/nahum/3-6.htm">Abominations</a> <a href="/hosea/13-1.htm">Baal</a> <a href="/numbers/25-3.htm">Baalpeor</a> <a href="/zephaniah/1-7.htm">Consecrated</a> <a href="/nahum/3-6.htm">Detestable</a> <a href="/joel/1-2.htm">Fathers</a> <a href="/joel/1-7.htm">Fig</a> <a href="/joel/1-7.htm">Fig-Tree</a> <a href="/joel/2-23.htm">First</a> <a href="/micah/7-1.htm">Firstripe</a> <a href="/nahum/3-12.htm">First-Ripe</a> <a href="/hosea/10-2.htm">Found</a> <a href="/joel/3-13.htm">Grapes</a> <a href="/hosea/10-1.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/hosea/11-1.htm">Loved</a> <a href="/numbers/23-28.htm">Peor</a> <a href="/joel/3-13.htm">Ripe</a> <a href="/hosea/12-9.htm">Season</a> <a href="/zechariah/7-3.htm">Separated</a> <a href="/hosea/9-12.htm">Shame</a> <a href="/micah/1-11.htm">Shameful</a> <a href="/hosea/13-3.htm">Soon</a> <a href="/hosea/10-10.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/hosea/10-12.htm">Time</a> <a href="/hosea/14-6.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/hosea/13-5.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 9</div>1. <a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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This phrase reflects God's initial delight in Israel, akin to finding refreshing grapes in a barren desert. Grapes symbolize abundance and blessing, often associated with God's favor (<a href="/numbers/13-23.htm">Numbers 13:23-24</a>). The wilderness represents Israel's early days, possibly during the Exodus, when they were dependent on God. This imagery underscores God's care and the special status of Israel as His chosen people (<a href="/deuteronomy/32-10.htm">Deuteronomy 32:10</a>).I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. The "firstfruits" signify the earliest and most valued produce, indicating Israel's initial purity and promise (<a href="/jeremiah/24.htm">Jeremiah 24:1-2</a>). The fig tree is a common biblical symbol for Israel (<a href="/joel/1-7.htm">Joel 1:7</a>). This phrase suggests a time when the forefathers were faithful and held a special place in God's plan, much like the firstfruits offered to God (<a href="/leviticus/23-10.htm">Leviticus 23:10</a>). It highlights the potential and promise seen in Israel's ancestors.But they went to Baal-peor, Baal-peor refers to an incident in <a href="/numbers/25.htm">Numbers 25:1-3</a>, where Israelites engaged in idolatry and immorality with Moabite women, worshiping the god Baal. This event marked a significant departure from their covenant with God, leading to divine judgment. It serves as a historical reminder of Israel's recurring unfaithfulness and the consequences of idolatry.and consecrated themselves to Shame; "Shame" is a euphemism for the idol Baal, indicating the disgrace associated with idol worship. Consecration, typically a term for dedicating oneself to God, here denotes a perverse dedication to false gods, highlighting the depth of Israel's apostasy. This reflects a reversal of their intended purpose as a holy nation (<a href="/exodus/19-6.htm">Exodus 19:6</a>).so they became as detestable as the thing they loved. This phrase illustrates the principle that people become like what they worship (<a href="/psalms/115-8.htm">Psalm 115:8</a>). By loving and worshiping idols, Israel became morally and spiritually corrupt. The detestable nature of their idolatry led to their own degradation, emphasizing the biblical theme that idolatry leads to destruction (<a href="/isaiah/44-9.htm">Isaiah 44:9-20</a>). This serves as a warning of the transformative power of worship, for good or ill.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The chosen people of God, often depicted in the Old Testament as a nation that vacillates between faithfulness and idolatry. 2. <a href="/topical/g/grapes_in_the_wilderness.htm">Grapes in the Wilderness</a> A metaphor for something precious and unexpected, symbolizing God's initial delight in Israel. 3. <a href="/topical/f/fathers.htm">Fathers</a> Refers to the ancestors of Israel, who were initially faithful and pleasing to God. 4. <a href="/topical/b/baal-peor.htm">Baal-peor</a> A location associated with idolatry and immorality, where the Israelites fell into sin by worshiping Baal. 5. <a href="/topical/f/firstfruits_of_the_fig_tree.htm">Firstfruits of the Fig Tree</a> Symbolizes the early and promising faithfulness of Israel, akin to the first and best produce of a fig tree.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_initial_delight.htm">God's Initial Delight</a> God finds joy in His people when they are faithful and devoted. Like grapes in the wilderness, our faithfulness is precious to Him. <a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_idolatry.htm">The Danger of Idolatry</a> Just as Israel turned to Baal-peor, we must be vigilant against modern forms of idolatry that can lead us away from God. <a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_sin.htm">Consequences of Sin</a> Israel's consecration to shame at Baal-peor serves as a warning of the spiritual and moral decay that results from turning away from God. <a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_repentance.htm">The Call to Repentance</a> Despite Israel's failures, God's desire is for His people to return to Him. We are called to examine our lives and repent of any idolatry or sin. <a href="/topical/b/bearing_fruit_for_god.htm">Bearing Fruit for God</a> Like the firstfruits of the fig tree, our lives should produce spiritual fruit that honors God. We are called to live in a way that reflects our devotion to Him.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_9.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 9</a> <a href="/q/who_is_the_author_of_the_book_of_hosea.htm">Who is the author of the Book of Hosea?</a> <a href="/q/why_curse_a_fig_tree_out_of_season.htm">Why does Jesus curse a fig tree for not bearing fruit out of season (Mark 11:12-14)? Isn’t that irrational behavior for God?</a> <a href="/q/why_did_jesus_curse_the_fig_tree.htm">Why did Jesus curse the fig tree?</a> <a href="/q/why_curse_fig_tree_out_of_fig_season.htm">Why does Jesus curse a fig tree in Matthew 21:19 for having no fruit when it was not the season for figs? </a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(10) Grapes in the wilderness.--Rich dainties to the desert traveller. So had Jehovah regarded His people at the commencement of their national history in the wilderness.Firstripe.--The early fig that ripens in June, while the rest come to maturity about August (<a href="/isaiah/28-4.htm" title="And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looks on it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.">Isaiah 28:4</a>; <a href="/micah/7-1.htm" title="Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fruit.">Micah 7:1</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/24-2.htm" title="One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.">Jeremiah 24:2</a>).Baal-peor was the place where Moabitic idolatry was practised. This great disgrace had burned itself into their national traditions and literature (Numbers 25; <a href="/deuteronomy/4-3.htm" title="Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you.">Deuteronomy 4:3</a>; <a href="/context/psalms/106-28.htm" title="They joined themselves also to Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.">Psalm 106:28-31</a>). . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 10. - I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig tree at her first time. Grapes and first figs are among the choicest and most refreshing fruits; but to find such delicious fruits in a dry, barren wilderness is specially grateful and delightful. There are three possible constructions of bammidhbor: (1) with "found," (2) with "grapes," and (3) with both. . . . <a href="/commentaries/hosea/9-10.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>I found מָצָ֙אתִי֙ (mā·ṣā·ṯî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4672.htm">Strong's 4672: </a> To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present Israel יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc like grapes כַּעֲנָבִ֣ים (ka·‘ă·nā·ḇîm) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6025.htm">Strong's 6025: </a> A grape in the wilderness. בַּמִּדְבָּ֗ר (bam·miḏ·bār) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4057.htm">Strong's 4057: </a> A pasture, a desert, speech I saw רָאִ֖יתִי (rā·’î·ṯî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7200.htm">Strong's 7200: </a> To see your fathers אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם (’ă·ḇō·w·ṯê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1.htm">Strong's 1: </a> Father as the firstfruits כְּבִכּוּרָ֤ה (kə·ḇik·kū·rāh) Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1063.htm">Strong's 1063: </a> The first ripe fig, early fig of the fig tree בִתְאֵנָה֙ (ḇiṯ·’ê·nāh) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8384.htm">Strong's 8384: </a> Of foreign derivation, the fig in its first season. בְּרֵ֣אשִׁיתָ֔הּ (bə·rê·šî·ṯāh) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7225.htm">Strong's 7225: </a> The first, in place, time, order, rank But they הֵ֜מָּה (hêm·māh) Pronoun - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1992.htm">Strong's 1992: </a> They went בָּ֣אוּ (bā·’ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> To come in, come, go in, go to Baal-peor, פְּע֗וֹר (pə·‘ō·wr) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1187.htm">Strong's 1187: </a> Baal of Peor', a Moabite god and consecrated וַיִּנָּֽזְרוּ֙ (way·yin·nā·zə·rū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5144.htm">Strong's 5144: </a> To hold aloof, abstain, to set apart, devote themselves to Shame; לַבֹּ֔שֶׁת (lab·bō·šeṯ) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1322.htm">Strong's 1322: </a> Shame, shameful thing so they became וַיִּהְי֥וּ (way·yih·yū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> To fall out, come to pass, become, be as detestable שִׁקּוּצִ֖ים (šiq·qū·ṣîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8251.htm">Strong's 8251: </a> Disgusting, filthy, idolatrous, an idol as the thing they loved. כְּאָהֳבָֽם׃ (kə·’ā·ho·ḇām) Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_157.htm">Strong's 157: </a> To have affection f <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/9-10.htm">Hosea 9:10 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/hosea/9-10.htm">Hosea 9:10 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/hosea/9-10.htm">Hosea 9:10 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/hosea/9-10.htm">Hosea 9:10 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/hosea/9-10.htm">Hosea 9:10 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/9-10.htm">Hosea 9:10 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/9-10.htm">Hosea 9:10 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/9-10.htm">Hosea 9:10 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/9-10.htm">Hosea 9:10 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/hosea/9-10.htm">Hosea 9:10 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/hosea/9-10.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/9-9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 9:9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 9:9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/9-11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 9:11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 9:11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>