Hosea 8:9
For by themselves they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey which wanders by itself. Ephraim pays for love
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
In Context
8Israel is devoured. Already it lies discarded among the nations like a worthless pot.
Cross References
Hosea 2:10and so I will strip her naked before her lovers, and no one can deliver her out of my hand.
Hosea 7:11Ephraim is like a simple, silly dove: to Egypt they call, after Assyria they go,
Matthew Henry on Hosea 8:9-14
The Sins of Israel; The Crimes of the People. ( b. c. 745.) 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. 12 I have written to him the great things… Read the whole commentary →