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Hosea 8:9

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

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  1. 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.

  2. Hosea 8:8

    Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

  3. Hosea 8:10

    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.

  4. Hosea 8:11

    Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.