12I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted as a strange thing.


In Context

9 For they are gone up to Assyria as a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

10 Although they hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall begin to be straitened under the burden of the king of princes.

11 Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

12 I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted as a strange thing.

13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; Jehovah hath no delight in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

Hosea 8:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:12I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:12I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something alien.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:12I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:12I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:12Though I write for him my law in ten thousand precepts, they are counted as a strange thing.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:12I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:12I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:12I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:12I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.