Hosea 8:9-11

New Catholic Bible

⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria
    like a wild ass wandering on its own;
    Ephraim has bargained for lovers.
¹⁰ Because they have bargained with the nations,
    I will now gather them up.
They will soon begin to suffer
    under the weight of kings and princes.
¹¹ Although Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings,
    those altars became occasions for sin.