Hosea 7:9 meaning and explanation
Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
Hosea 7:9, Berean Standard Bible
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God speaks through Hosea about Ephraim, the leading tribe of the northern kingdom of Israel, in the years before Assyria destroyed Samaria in 722 BC. Here Ephraim is pictured as a man whose vitality is being drained by foreign powers and alliances, yet who never registers the loss.
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