Hosea 8:9 in the King James Version
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
Context
8 Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
10 But 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.