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


In Context

9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.

10 Although they have sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them together. They will begin to waste away under the oppression of the mighty king.

11 "Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning.

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

13 They offer sacrifices given to me and they eat the meat, but the Lord is not pleased with them. Now he will remember their wickedness and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many towns. But I will send fire upon their cities that will consume their fortresses."

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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:12I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: 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.