Alone Ass Asshur Assyria Donkey Ephraim E'phraim Herself Hired Lovers Money Sold Wandering Wild
8:9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a {g} wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
(g) They never cease, but run to and fro to seek help.
8:9 Gone up - Israel is like a wild ass. A wild ass - Stubborn, wild, untamed. Alone - Solitary, where is no path or tract; so they were in their captivity.
8:5-10 They promised themselves plenty, peace, and victory, by worshipping idols, but their expectations came to nothing. What they sow has no stalk, no blade, or, if it have, the bud shall yield no fruit, there was nothing in them. The works of darkness are unfruitful; nay, the end of those things is death. The hopes of sinners will deceive them, and their gains will be snares. In times of danger, especially in the day of judgment, all carnal devices will fail. They take a course by themselves, and like a wild ass by himself, they will be the easier and surer prey for the lion. Man is in nothing more like the wild ass's colt, than in seeking for that succour and that satisfaction in the creature, which are to be had in God only. Though men may sorrow a little, yet if it is not after a godly sort, they will be brought to sorrow everlastingly.
Alone Ass Asshur Assyria Donkey Ephraim E'phraim Herself Hired Lovers Money Sold Wandering Wild
Alone Ass Asshur Assyria Donkey Ephraim E'phraim Herself Hired Lovers Money Sold Wandering Wild
