Hosea 8:9-11

World English Bible

⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria,
    like a wild donkey wandering alone.
    Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
¹⁰ But although they sold themselves among the nations,
    I will now gather them;
    and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
¹¹ Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning,
    they became for him altars for sinning.