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


In Context

9 For they — they have gone up to Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself is Ephraim, They have hired lovers!

10 Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.

11 Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.

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

13 The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They — to Egypt they turn back.

14 And forget doth Israel his Maker, and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces!

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 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 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.