Hosea 9:10

Verse Hosea 9:10. 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 traveller in the desert.

I saw your fathers] Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, Caleb, Samuel, c.

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 vigour 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.