“For they have gone up to Assyria,like a wild donkey wandering alone.Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.”
Hosea 8:9 (WEB)
Context Reading
7For they sow the wind,and they will reap the whirlwind.He has no standing grain.The stalk will yield no head.If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up. 8Israel is swallowed up.Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing. 9For they have gone up to Assyria,like a wild donkey wandering alone.Ephraim has hired lovers for himself. 10But although they sold themselves among the nations,I will now gather them;and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones. 11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning,they became for him altars for sinning.