Hosea 9 · Verse 10

Hosea 9:10

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 Baal–peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
Hosea 9:10, King James Version

Hosea 9:10 in other translations

BSBI found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
WEBI found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
ASVI found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
YLTAs grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They--they have gone in to Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.
DARBYI found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; as first-ripe fruit on the fig-tree, I saw your fathers at the beginning: they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and became abominations like their lover.
BBEI made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.
WebsterI found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig-tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves to that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

What does Hosea 9:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. As the traveller in a wilderness is delighted at finding grapes to quench his thirst, or the early fig (esteemed a great delicacy in the East, Is 28:4; Jr 24:2; Mi 7:1); so it was My delight to choose your fathers as My peculiar people in Egypt (Ho 2:15). at her first time--when the first-fruits of the tree become ripe. went to Baal-peor--(Nu 25:3): the Moabite idol, in whose worship young women prostituted themselves; the very sin Israel latterly was guilty of. separated themselves--consecrated themselves. unto that shame--to that shameful or foul idol (Jr 11:13). their abominations were according as they loved--rather, as Vulgate, "they became abominable like the object of their love" (De 7:26; Psa 115:8). English Version gives good sense, "their abominable idols they followed after, according as their lusts prompted them" (Am 4:5, Margin).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness - While they were faithful, they were as acceptable to me as ripe grapes would be to a thirsty traveler in the desert. I saw your fathers - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, Caleb, Samuel, etc. As the first ripe - Those grapes, whose bud having come first, and being exposed most to the sun, have been the first ripe upon the tree; which tree was now in the vigor of youth, and bore fruit for the first time. A metaphor of the rising prosperity of the Jewish state. But they went to Baal-Peor - The same as the Roman Priapus, and worshipped with the most impure rites. And their abominations were according as they loved - Or, "they became as abominable as the object of their love." So Bp. Newcome. And this was superlatively abominable.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 9:7-10

Time had been when the spiritual watchmen of Israel were with the Lord, but now they were like the snare of a fowler to entangle persons to their ruin. The people were become as corrupt as those of Gibeah, Judg. 19; and their crimes should be visited in like manner. At first God had found Israel pleasing to Him, as grapes to the traveller in the wilderness. He saw them with pleasure as the first ripe figs. This…

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Hosea 9:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כַּעֲנָבִ֣יםka.'a.na.Vimlike grapesH6025
בַּמִּדְבָּ֗רba.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057
מָצָ֙אתִי֙ma.Tza.tiI foundH4672
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
כְּבִכּוּרָ֤הke.vi.ku.Rahlike early fig[s]H1063
בִתְאֵנָה֙vit.'e.Nahon a fig treeH8384
בְּרֵ֣אשִׁיתָ֔הּbe.Re.shi.Tahat beginning itsH7225
רָאִ֖יתִיra.'I.tiI sawH7200
אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם'a.vo.tei.Khemancestors yourH1
הֵ֜מָּהHe.mahtheyH1992
בָּ֣אוּBa.'uthey cameH935
בַֽעַל\־va.'al-BaalH1187
פְּע֗וֹרpe.'orPeorH1187
וַיִּנָּֽזְרוּ֙vai.yi.na.ze.Ruand they devoted themselvesH5144
לַבֹּ֔שֶׁתla.Bo.shetto <the> shameH1322
וַיִּהְי֥וּvai.yih.Yuand they wereH1961
שִׁקּוּצִ֖יםshi.ku.Tzimdetestable thingsH8251
כְּאָהֳבָֽם\׃ke.'o.ho.Vamas loved theyH157

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Cross references for Hosea 9:10

  • Jeremiah 11:13

    For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.

  • Hosea 4:14

    I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

  • Numbers 25:1-18

    And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baal–peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel. …

  • Ezekiel 20:8

    But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

  • Hosea 2:15

    And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

  • Psalms 106:28-29

    They joined themselves also unto Baal–peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

  • Jeremiah 2:2-3

    Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.

  • Amos 4:5

    And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.

  • Deuteronomy 4:3

    Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal–peor: for all the men that followed Baal–peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

  • 1 Kings 16:31

    And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

  • Deuteronomy 32:10

    He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

  • Micah 7:1

    Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
found.
11:1; Ex 19:4-6; De 32:10; Jer 2:2,3; 31:2
grapes.
2:15; Nu 13:23,24; Isa 28:4; Mic 7:1
but.
Nu 25:3-18; De 4:3; Ps 106:28
separated.
4:14; Jud 6:32; 1Ki 16:31; Jer 11:13; Ro 6:21
and their.
Nu 15:39; De 32:17; Ps 81:12; Jer 5:31; Eze 20:8; Am 4:5

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Context

  • Hosea 9:9

    They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

  • Hosea 9:10

    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 Baal–peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

  • Hosea 9:11

    As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

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Hosea 9:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Como uvas en el desierto hallé á Israel: como la fruta temprana de la higuera en su principio vi á vuestros padres. Ellos entraron á Baal-peor, y se apartaron para vergüenza, é hiciéronse abominables como aquello que amaron.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
J’ai trouvé Israël comme des raisins dans le désert; j’ai vu vos pères au commencement comme le premier fruit du figuier. Ils sont allés à Baal-Péor, et ils se sont voués à cette honteuse idole, et sont devenus abominables comme leur amant.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ich fand Israel wie Trauben in der Wüste; wie eine Frühfrucht am Feigenbaum, in seinem ersten Triebe ersah ich eure Väter. Sie aber gingen nach Baal-Peor und weihten sich der Schande, und sie wurden Greuel wie ihr Buhle.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quasi uvas in deserto inveni Israël, quasi prima poma ficulneæ in cacumine ejus vidi patres eorum: ipsi autem intraverunt ad Beelphegor, et abalienati sunt in confusionem, et facti sunt abominabiles sicut ea quæ dilexerunt.