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Hosea 8:7-9
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Hosea 8:7-9
Easy-to-Read Version
7 The Israelites did a foolish thing—it was like trying to plant the wind. But they will get only troubles—they will harvest a whirlwind. The grain in the fields will grow, but it will give no food. Even if it grew something, strangers would eat it.
8 “Israel was destroyed;
its people are scattered among the nations,
like some dish that was thrown away because no one wanted it.
9 Ephraim went to his ‘lovers.’[a]
Like a stubborn donkey, they led him off to Assyria.
Footnotes
- Hosea 8:9 lovers This means Israel’s false gods.
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