Hosea 9:10

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Hosea 4:14

I will not punish your daughters for their prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law for their adultery, Because the men themselves consort with prostitutes, and with temple women they offer sacrifice! Thus a people without understanding comes to ruin.

Jeremiah 11:13

For as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah! As many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars for sacrifice to Baal.

Micah 7:1

Woe is me! I am like the one who gathers summer fruit, when the vines have been gleaned; There is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

Hosea 2:15

I will punish her for the days of the Baals, for whom she burnt incense, When she decked herself out with her rings and her jewelry, and went after her lovers— but me she forgot—oracle of the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:8

But they rebelled and refused to listen to me; none of them threw away the detestable things that held their eyes, nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I considered pouring out my fury and spending my anger against them there in the land of Egypt.

Amos 4:5

Burn leavened bread as a thanksgiving sacrifice, proclaim publicly your voluntary offerings, For so you love to do, Israelites— oracle of the Lord God.

Hosea 11:1

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

Jeremiah 31:2

Thus says the Lord: The people who escaped the sword find favor in the wilderness. As Israel comes forward to receive rest,

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests teach on their own authority; Yet my people like it this way; what will you do when the end comes?

Isaiah 28:4

The fading blooms of his glorious beauty at the head of the fertile valley Will be like an early fig before summer: whoever sees it, swallows it as soon as it is in hand.

Psalm 81:12

But my people did not listen to my words; Israel would not submit to me.

1 Kings 16:31

It was not enough for him to follow the sins of Jeroboam, son of Nebat. He even married Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal, and worship him.

Judges 6:32

So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, because of the words, “Let Baal take action against him, since he dismantled his altar.”

Deuteronomy 32:17

They sacrificed to demons, to “no-gods,” to gods they had never known, Newcomers from afar, before whom your ancestors had never trembled.

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found them in a wilderness, a wasteland of howling desert. He shielded them, cared for them, guarded them as the apple of his eye.

Deuteronomy 4:3

You have seen with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal-peor: the Lord, your God, destroyed from your midst everyone who followed the Baal of Peor;

Numbers 15:39

When you use these tassels, the sight of the cord will remind you of all the commandments of the Lord and you will do them, without prostituting yourself going after the desires of your hearts and your eyes.

Romans 6:21

But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Psalm 115:8

Their makers will be like them, and anyone who trusts in them.

Jeremiah 3:24

The shameful thing has devoured our ancestors’ worth from our youth, Their sheep and cattle, their sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 24:2

One basket contained excellent figs, those that ripen early. But the other basket contained very bad figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

Hosea 4:18

When their drinking is over, they give themselves to prostitution; they love shame more than their honor.

Numbers 18:13

The first-ripened fruits of whatever is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours; all of your household who are clean may eat them.

2 Kings 17:11

They burned incense there, on all the high places, like the nations whom the Lord had sent into exile at their coming. They did evil things that provoked the Lord,

Song of Solomon 3:6

D Who is this coming up from the desert, like columns of smoke Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all kinds of exotic powders?

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame, let our disgrace cover us, for we have sinned against the Lord, our God, We and our ancestors, from our youth to this day; we did not listen to the voice of the Lord, our God.”

Hosea 13:5

I fed you in the wilderness, in the parched land.