Holy Scripture
Hosea 8:8
A church father on this verse
“O appalling hardness! O strange cruelty! You did not fear God, nor did you reverence others or feel shame before your friends. So you have suffered shipwreck of all things at once. You have stripped yourselves of every good thing at the same time. Therefore again I grieve for you, wretched man! You who were announcing…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
8Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations as a worthless vessel.
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In context
6Whereas the workman made it, and it is not God; wherefore thy calf, Samaria, was a deceiver:
7for they sowed blighted seed, and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.
— Hosea 8:8 —
9For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.
10Therefore shall they be delivered to the nations: now I will receive them, and they shall cease a little to anoint a king and princes.