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Hosea 9:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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I will not punish your daughters when they act promiscuously or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go off with prostitutes and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes. People without discernment are doomed.


Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, Judah,  and the altars you have set up to Shame  ,  #– #altars to burn incense to Baal #– #as numerous as the streets of Jerusalem.


How sad for me! For I am like one who – when the summer fruit has been gathered after the gleaning of the grape harvest   – finds no grape cluster to eat, no early fig, which I crave.


There I will give her vineyards back to her and make the Valley of Achor  , into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.


‘ “But they rebelled against me and were unwilling to listen to me. None of them threw away the abhorrent things that they prized,  and they did not abandon the idols of Egypt. So I considered pouring out my wrath on them,  exhausting my anger against them within the land of Egypt.


Offer leavened bread as a thanksgiving sacrifice, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings, for that is what you Israelites love to do! This is the declaration of the Lord  God.


When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.


This is what the Lord says: The people who survived the sword found favour in the wilderness. When Israel went to find rest,


The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?


The fading flower of his beautiful splendour, which is on the summit above the rich valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest. Whoever sees it will swallow it while it is still in his hand.


Then, as if following the sin of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not enough, he married Jezebel,  the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians,  and then proceeded to serve Baal and bow in worship to him.


That day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, since Joash said, ‘Let Baal contend with him,’ because he tore down his altar.


They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known, new gods that had just arrived, which your ancestors did not fear.


He found him in a desolate land, in a barren, howling wilderness; he surrounded him, cared for him, and protected him as the pupil of his eye.


Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.


These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the Lord’s commands and obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart  and your own eyes.


So what fruit was produced  then from the things you are now ashamed of?  The outcome of those things is death.


From the time of our youth the shameful one  has consumed what our ancestors have worked for – their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.


One basket contained very good figs, like early figs,  but the other basket contained very bad figs, so bad that they were inedible.


When their drinking is over, they turn to promiscuity. Israel’s leaders  fervently love disgrace.


The firstfruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, belong to you. Every clean person in your house may eat them.


They burned incense there on all the high places just like the nations that the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did evil things, angering the Lord.


Who is this  coming up from the wilderness like columns of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from every fragrant powder of the merchant?


Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the  Lord our God, both we and our ancestors, from the time of our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the  Lord our God.’


I knew  you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.





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