Hosea 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.

Ex 19:4-6; Nu 13:23,24; Nu 15:39; Nu 25:3-18; De 4:3; De 32:10; De 32:17; Jud 6:32; 1Ki 16:31; Ps 81:12; Ps 106:28; Isa 28:4; Jer 2:2,3; Jer 5:31; Jer 11:13; Jer 31:2; Eze 20:8; Ho 2:15; Ho 4:14; Ho 11:1; Am 4:5; Mic 7:1; Ro 6:21

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