Hosea 9:10

9:10 When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness.

I viewed your ancestors ¹  like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season.

Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame –

they became as detestable as what they loved.

Hosea 9:12

9:12 Even if they raise their children,

I will take away every last one of them. ² 

Woe to them!

For I will turn away from them.

[9:10]  ¹ tn Heb “fathers”; a number of more recent English versions use the more general “ancestors” here.

[9:12]  ² tn Heb “I will bereave them from a man”; NRSV “I will bereave them until no one is left.”