10 (A) Som druvor i öknen fann jag Israel,
    som förstlingsfrukter på fikonträdet
        när det börjar bära frukt
            såg jag era fäder.
    Men de gick till Baal-Peor[a]
        och invigde sig åt skammens gud,
    och de blev lika vidriga
        som den de älskade.

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  1. 9:10 Baal-Peor   En otuktsrelaterad episod under ökenvandringen (se 4 Mos 25:3f, Jos 22:17).

10 Like grapes in the wilderness,
        I found Israel.
    In its first season,
    like the first fruit on the fig tree,
        I saw your ancestors.
    But they came to Baal-peor,
        and worshipped a thing of shame;
    they became detestable like the thing they loved.[a]

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  1. Hosea 9:10 Heb uncertain

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(A) on the fig(B) tree.
But when they came to Baal Peor,(C)
    they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol(D)
    and became as vile as the thing they loved.

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10 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.

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