Hosea 8:9

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Hosea 8:9

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Berean Standard Bible

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

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KJV

King James Version

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

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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Hosea 8

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.

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