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Ordered object diptych: left ripe grapes and first fig in a stark wilderness setting; right same fruit neglected beside small unlettered pagan shrine with incense. No identified ancestral worshiper.
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Hosea 9:10

Grapes in the Wilderness

The Days of Repayment · Hosea 9

Story guide: Prophetic illustration grounded in the verse; national designations and metaphors are not newly narrated events.

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10Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel; like the first-ripe fruit on the fig tree in its first season I saw your fathers. They came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to shame, and they became detestable like the thing they loved.

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