What does Hosea 8:7-10 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk:a the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.b
Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrowc a little for the burden of the king of princes.