10 Like grapes in the wilderness,
    (A)I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
    in its first season,
    I saw your fathers.
But (B)they came to Baal-peor
    and (C)consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
    and (D)became detestable like the thing they loved.

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13 Ephraim, (A)as I have seen, was like a young palm[a] planted in a meadow;
    but (B)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:13 Or like Tyre
  2. Hosea 9:13 Hebrew to him who slaughters

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