Hosea 8:7–10

7 Indeed, they sow the windj

and reap the whirlwind.k

There is no standing grain;

what sprouts fails to yield flour.l

Even if they did,

foreigners would swallow it up.

8 Israel is swallowed up!m

Now they are among the nations

like discarded pottery.n

9 For they have gone up to Assyriao

like a wild donkey going off on its own.

Ephraim has paid for love.p

10 Even though they hire lovers among the nations,

I will now round them up,

and they will begin to decrease in numberq

under the burden of the king and leaders.r