Hosea 8:9

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • Jer 2:24 : 24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
  • Hos 5:13 : 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
  • Hos 7:11 : 11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove witut heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
  • Ezek 16:33-34 : 33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. 34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
  • Ezek 23:5-9 : 5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, 6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. 7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself. 8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her. 9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
  • Hos 2:5-7 : 5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. 6 Therefore, beld, I will hedge up thy way with trns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. 7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
  • Hos 2:10 : 10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
  • Hos 12:1 : 1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
  • 2 Kgs 15:19 : 19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
  • Job 39:5-8 : 5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? 6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. 7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. 8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
  • Isa 30:6 : 6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

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    10Yea, tugh 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.

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  • Hos 7:10-11
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    10And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

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  • Hos 4:16-18
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    16For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

    17Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

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  • Ezek 23:9
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    9Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

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    8Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

  • Hos 12:1
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    1Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

  • Ezek 23:5
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    5And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

  • Ezek 23:12
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    12She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

  • Jer 22:20
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    20Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

  • Jer 2:24-25
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    24A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

    25Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

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    3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, tu committest wredom, and Israel is defiled.

    4They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of wredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

  • Hos 5:6
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    6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

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    4I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

    5He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

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    20For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

  • Hos 5:13-14
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    13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

    14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the use of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

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    6It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

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    9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

    10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

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    3They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

  • Hos 9:1
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    1Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for tu hast gone a wring from thy God, tu hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

  • Hos 9:17
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    17My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

  • Hos 2:5
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    5For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

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    8Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

  • Job 39:5
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    5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

  • Ezek 23:7
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    7Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

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    8They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

  • Hos 11:2
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    2As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

  • Job 24:5
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    5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

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    4For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

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    6Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

  • Isa 19:23
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    23In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

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    10I have seen an rrible thing in the use of Israel: there is the wredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

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    6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

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    17The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

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    3Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.