Hosea 8:7-9

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁷ “The people of Israel plant the wind, but they harvest a storm.
A field of grain that doesn’t ripen will never produce any grain.
Even if it did produce grain, foreigners would eat it all.
⁸ Israel will be swallowed up.
It has already mixed in with the other nations.
It has become worthless.

⁹ “The people of Israel went to Assyria.
They were like wild donkeys wandering off alone.
The people of Ephraim sold themselves to their lovers.