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Youngs Literal Translation
And I have spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use similes.
New American Standard Bible
And I
And through the prophets I gave
King James Version
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
Holman Bible
and granted many visions;
I gave parables through the prophets.
International Standard Version
I spoke to the prophets, giving revelation after revelation, and employing parables in the prophetic writings.
A Conservative Version
I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions. And by the ministry of the prophets I have used similitudes.
American Standard Version
I have also spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.
Amplified
I have also spoken to [you through] the prophets,
And I gave [them] many visions [to make My will known],
And through the prophets I gave parables [to appeal to your sense of right and wrong].
Bible in Basic English
My word came to the ears of the prophets and I gave them visions in great number, and by the mouths of the prophets I made use of comparisons.
Darby Translation
And I have spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by means of the prophets have I used similitudes.
Julia Smith Translation
And I spake by the prophets, and I multiplied the vision, and by the hand of the prophets I will use similitudes.
King James 2000
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and gave symbols, by the witness of the prophets.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I spoke to the prophets; I myself multiplied revelations and through the hand of the prophets I will destroy.
Modern King James verseion
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions and have used parables by the hand of the prophets.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I have spoken through the prophets, and showed divers visions, and declared myself by the ministration of the prophets.
NET Bible
I spoke to the prophets; I myself revealed many visions; I spoke in parables through the prophets."
New Heart English Bible
I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
The Emphasized Bible
And I will lay my word upon the prophets, yea, I myself, have magnified, vision, - and, by the hand of the prophets, will I use similitudes.
Webster
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.
World English Bible
I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 12:10
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Further Words Of Judgment
9 And I -- Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, Again do I turn thee back into tents, As in the days of the appointed time. 10 And I have spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use similes. 11 Surely Gilead is iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars are as heaps, on the furrows of a field.
Cross References
2 Kings 17:13
And Jehovah testifieth against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, 'Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent unto you by the hand of My servants the prophets;'
Ezekiel 20:49
And I say, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah, They are saying of me, Is he not using similes?
Joel 2:28
And it hath come to pass afterwards, I do pour out My Spirit on all flesh, And prophesied have your sons and your daughters, Your old men do dream dreams, Your young men do see visions.
Numbers 12:6
And He saith, 'Hear, I pray you, My words: If your prophet is of Jehovah -- in an appearance unto him I make Myself known; in a dream I speak with him;
1 Kings 13:1
And lo, a man of God hath come from Judah, by the word of Jehovah, unto Beth-El, and Jeroboam is standing by the altar -- to make perfume;
1 Kings 14:7-16
Go, say to Jeroboam, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Because that I have made thee high out of the midst of the people, and appoint thee leader over my people Israel,
1 Kings 17:1
And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, saith unto Ahab, 'Jehovah, God of Israel, liveth, before whom I have stood, there is not these years dew and rain, except according to my word.'
1 Kings 18:21-40
and Elijah cometh nigh unto all the people, and saith, 'Till when are ye leaping on the two branches? -- if Jehovah is God, go after Him; and if Baal, go after him;' and the people have not answered him a word.
1 Kings 19:10
And he saith, 'I have been very zealous for Jehovah, God of Hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant -- Thine altars they have thrown down, and Thy prophets they have slain by the sword, and I am left, I, by myself, and they seek my life -- to take it.'
Nehemiah 9:30
'And Thou drawest over them many years, and testifiest against them by Thy Spirit, by the hand of Thy prophets, and they have not given ear, and Thou dost give them into the hand of peoples of the lands,
Isaiah 5:1-7
Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill,
Isaiah 20:2-5
at that time spake Jehovah by the hand of Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, 'Go, and thou hast loosed the sackcloth from off thy loins, and thy sandal thou dost draw from off thy foot,' and he doth so, going naked and barefoot.
Jeremiah 7:25
Even from the day when your fathers Went out of the land of Egypt till this day, I send to you all my servants the prophets, Daily rising early and sending,
Jeremiah 13:1-14
Thus said Jehovah unto me, 'Go, and thou hast got for thee a girdle of linen, and hast placed it on thy loins, and into water thou dost not cause it to enter:'
Jeremiah 19:1
Thus said Jehovah, 'Go, and thou hast got a potter's earthen vessel, and of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests,
Jeremiah 19:10
'And thou hast broken the bottle before the eyes of the men who are going with thee,
Jeremiah 25:4
And Jehovah hath sent unto you all His servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, and ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear, saying:
Ezekiel 4:1-5
And thou, son of man, take to thee a brick, and thou hast put it before thee, and hast graven on it a city -- Jerusalem,
Ezekiel 15:1-8
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:
Hosea 1:2-5
The commencement of Jehovah's speaking by Hosea. And Jehovah saith unto Hosea, 'Go, take to thee a woman of whoredoms, and children of whoredoms, for utterly go a-whoring doth the land from after Jehovah.'
Hosea 3:1
And Jehovah saith unto me: 'Again, go, love a woman, loved of a friend, and an adulteress, like the loved of Jehovah, the sons of Israel, and they are turning unto other gods, and are lovers of grape-cakes.'
Amos 7:14
And Amos answereth and saith unto Amaziah, 'I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son am I, but a herdsman I am, and a cultivator of sycamores,
Acts 2:17
And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;
2 Corinthians 12:1
To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:7
and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.