9For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.


In Context

6 For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

7 For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

8 Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

9 For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

10 But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.

11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.

Hosea 8:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:9For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9For they are gone up to Assyria as a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:9For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim has hired lovers.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9For they — they have gone up to Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself is Ephraim, They have hired lovers!