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Hosea 8:9

“For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.”
Hosea 8:9 verse artwork: For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
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7For 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.

8Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.

9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

10Though 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.

11Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.

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