Deuteronomy 32:10
Hebrew Bible
8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly. 9 For the Lord’s allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession. 10 The Lord found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye. 11 Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the Lord spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Hosea 9:10
Hebrew Bible
9 They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins. 10 When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors 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. 11 Ephraim will be like a bird; what they value will fly away. They will not bear children—they will not enjoy pregnancy—they will not even conceive!
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... According to Hosea 9:10, YHWH found Israel, “like finding grapes in the desert.” The same is described in the old poem in Deuteronomy 32:10 (and maybe in Jeremiah 31:1). In contrast to his predecessors, Ezekiel does not admit a primeval period of blissful innocence. He sees corruption at the very beginning of the city, in its pagan, idolatrous origins with an Amorite father and a Hittite mother (vese 3, repeated in verse 45 in the inverse order; this secondary inclusio shows a gradual growth of these texts) ..."
Bodi, Daniel
"When YHWH's Wife, Jerusalem, Became a Strange Woman: Inversion of Values in Ezekiel 16 in Light of Ištar Cult" in Berlejung, Angelika, and Marianne Grohmann (eds.) Foreign Women - Women in Foreign Lands: Studies on Foreignness and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East in the First Millennium BCE
(pp. 77-108) Mohr Siebeck, 2019
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