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Hosea 8:9

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For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

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Hosea 8:9 in other translations

For they have gone up to Assyria,
like a wild donkey wandering alone.
Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

Hosea 8:9 · World English Bible

Hosea 8:9 in context

  1. 7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
  2. 8Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delighteth.
  3. 9For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
  4. 10Yea, though they hire among the nations, now will I gather them; and they begin to be diminished by reason of the burden of the king of princes.
  5. 11Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been unto him for sinning.