Oséias 7

Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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Buscar Egito e Assíria: alianças políticas desesperadas (2 Reis 17:4). Ironicamente, ambos impérios destruíram Israel (722 a.C.).
When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.