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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.

“Israel was destroyed;
    its people are scattered among the nations,
    like some dish that was thrown away because no one wanted it.
Ephraim went to his ‘lovers.’[a]
    Like a stubborn donkey, they led him off to Assyria.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 8:9 lovers This means Israel’s false gods.

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