Holy Scripture

Hosea 9:10

A church father on this verse
“"As I found grapes in the desert, I saw Israel, as the first figs 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." LXX: "As I found Israel in the desert like a grape, and as I saw their fathers…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Hosea 9:10-11

Source: Septuagint

Original

10I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig tree: they went in to Baal-peor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.

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8The watchman of Ephraim was with God: the prophet is a crooked snare in all his ways: they have established madness in the house of God.

9They have corrupted themselves according to the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquities, he will take vengeance on their sins.

— Hosea 9:10 —

11Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.

12For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved: wherefore also there is woe to them, though my flesh is of them.

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