Hosea 8:9
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
Hosea 8:9 in other translations
| BSB | For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers. |
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| WEB | For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself. |
| ASV | For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. |
| YLT | For they--they have gone up to Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself is Ephraim, They have hired lovers! |
| DARBY | For they are gone up to Assyria as a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. |
| BBE | For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers. |
| Webster | For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. |
What does Hosea 8:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 8:5-10
They promised themselves plenty, peace, and victory, by worshipping idols, but their expectations came to nothing. What they sow has no stalk, no blade, or, if it have, the bud shall yield no fruit, there was nothing in them. The works of darkness are unfruitful; nay, the end of those things is death. The hopes of sinners will deceive them, and their gains will be snares. In times of danger, especially in the day of…
Hosea 8:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Hosea 8:9
- Jeremiah 2:24
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.
- Ezekiel 16:33-34
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. 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.
- Hosea 7:11
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
- Hosea 5:13
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.
- 2 Kings 15:19
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.
- Isaiah 30:6
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.
- Hosea 12:1
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.
- Hosea 2:5-7
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. Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. 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.
- Job 39:5-8
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
- Hosea 2:10
And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
- Ezekiel 23:5-9
And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. 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. 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. …
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Context
- Hosea 8:8
Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
- Hosea 8:9
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
- Hosea 8:10
Yea, though 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.
Hosea 8:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque ellos subieron á Assur, asno montés para sí solo: Ephraim con salario alquiló amantes. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car ils sont montés vers l’Assyrien: un âne sauvage se tient isolé. Éphraïm a fait des présents à des amants. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn sie sind nach Assyrien hinaufgezogen. Der Wildesel bleibt für sich allein aber Ephraim hat Buhlen gedungen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quia ipsi ascenderunt ad Assur, onager solitarius sibi; Ephraim munera dederunt amatoribus. |