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For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
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Verse 9. Wild ass. It is very jealous of liberty, (Job 11:12) and of its females, so that it prevents the young males from becoming its rivals. Pliny viii. 30. Solin xxx.—If this were true, the species would soon perish. Bible.—The Israelites disdained subjection to strangers. They even rejected God, their king; for which reason he abandons them to servitude, in a foreign land. They had run furiously after idols, and had given presents to such lovers.
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