Hosea 8:7-9

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⁷ For they sow the wind,
    and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
    it shall yield no meal;
if it were to yield,
    foreigners would devour it.^(A)
8 Israel is swallowed up;
    now they are among the nations
    as a useless vessel.^(B)
9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
    a wild ass wandering alone;
    Ephraim has bargained for lovers.^(C)