For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
g כי המה עלו "quamvis, etiamsi ascenderint"; so Schmidt observes it may be rendered, though he chooses to render it by "quando", "when they should go up", &c. h פרא בודד לו "erunt onager, qui solitarius sibi est", Schmidt. i Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 3. c. 16. col. 870. k Tishbi, p. 267.