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


In Context

9 For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

10 But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.

11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.

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

13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But Yahweh doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.

14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its 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 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 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 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.