For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
Hosea 8:9 stands within a covenant warning to Israel for breaking the covenant with God. In that setting Israel had rejected what is good and had come to treat God's law as a strange or foreign thing. The same warning reaches those who lift human laws above God's law and who persecute those who remain loyal to God's law.
Hosea 8:9 stands within a covenant warning to Israel for breaking the covenant with God. In that setting Israel had rejected what is good and had come to treat God's law as a strange or foreign thing. The same warning reaches those who lift human laws above God's law and who persecute those who remain loyal to God's law.