Hosea 8:9 meaning and explanation
For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
Hosea 8:9, Berean Standard Bible
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Hosea is speaking for God to the northern kingdom of Ephraim, Israel, in the years before Assyria destroyed it. The wild donkey wandering alone pictures a people determined to go their own way, and going up to Assyria means seeking help from a pagan empire instead of from the LORD.
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