Bible verse
For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
Hosea 8:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from Hosea 8.
5 He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.
7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.
11 Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
12 Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
13 Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
KJV
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
ASV
For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
ERV
For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
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