Hosea 8:7-10

New International Version

⁷ “They sow the wind
    and reap the whirlwind.^(A)
The stalk has no head;
    it will produce no flour.^(B)
Were it to yield grain,
    foreigners would swallow it up.^(C)
8 Israel is swallowed up;^(D)
    now she is among the nations
    like something no one wants.^(E)
9 For they have gone up to Assyria^(F)
    like a wild donkey^(G) wandering alone.
    Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.^(H)
10 Although they have sold themselves among the nations,
    I will now gather them together.^(I)
They will begin to waste away^(J)
    under the oppression of the mighty king.