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For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

Hosea 8:9 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીહોશિયા ૮:૯
કેમ કે એકલા રખડતા જંગલી ગધેડા જેવા, તેઓ આશ્શૂરની પાસે દોડી ગયા. એફ્રાઇમે પૈસા આપીને પોતાના માટે પ્રીતમો રાખ્યા છે.
हिन्दीहोशे ८:९
क्योंकि वे अश्शूर को ऐसे चले गए, जैसा जंगली गदहा झुण्ड से बिछड़ के रहता है; एप्रैम ने यारों को मजदूरी पर रखा है।

In context

7For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

8Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

9For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

10But 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.

11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.

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