Hosea 8:8-10

Revised Standard Version

⁸ Israel is swallowed up;
    already they are among the nations
    as a useless vessel.
⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria,
    a wild ass wandering alone;
    E′phraim has hired lovers.
¹⁰ Though they hire allies among the nations,
    I will soon gather them up.
And they shall cease^[a] for a little while
    from anointing^[b] king and princes.