Hosea 8:8-10

The Voice

⁸ Israel has been devoured by that eagle and strewn among the nations.
Now it’s like a discarded pot, valuable to no one.

⁹    All alone like a wild donkey, Ephraim went up to Assyria
        and had to hire her own lovers!
¹⁰    But because they paid tribute money to other nations instead of depending on Me,
        I’m going to gather them up and send them into exile,
    And they will struggle for a time
        beneath the burden imposed by the great king of princes.^[a]