Hosea 8:9

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Hosea 8:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

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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Hosea 5:13

When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.

Hosea 7:11

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove— calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

2 Kings 15:19

Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.

Ezekiel 23:5

Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors

Ezekiel 23:6

clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.

Ezekiel 23:7

She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.

Ezekiel 23:8

She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.

Ezekiel 23:9

Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

Job 39:5

Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

Job 39:6

I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

Job 39:7

He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.

Job 39:8

He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.

Hosea 2:5

For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’

Hosea 2:6

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.

Hosea 2:7

She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’

Hosea 2:10

And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.

Isaiah 30:6

This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

Ezekiel 16:33

Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.

Ezekiel 16:34

So your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite!