King James Version (KJV)
Hosea 8:9
“For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.”
Verse in context — Hosea 8
7
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
8
Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure.
9
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
10
Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
11
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
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God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.
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