Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Ephraim: What to me yet to images? I humbled, and I will regard him: I as the green cypress From me thy fruit was found.
New American Standard Bible
It is I who answer and look after
I am like a luxuriant
From
King James Version
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
Holman Bible
to do with idols?
It is I who answer and watch over him.
I am like a flourishing pine tree;
your fruit comes from Me.
International Standard Version
"Ephraim, what have I in common with idols? I have listened and will pay attention to him. I am like a flourishing cypress; in me will your fruit be found."
A Conservative Version
Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him. I am like a green fir tree. From me thy fruit is found.
American Standard Version
Ephraim'shall say , What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him: I am like a green fir-tree; from me is thy fruit found.
Amplified
O Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols?
It is I who have answered and will care for you and watch over you.
I am like a luxuriant cypress tree;
With Me your fruit is found [which is to nourish you].
Bible in Basic English
As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.
Darby Translation
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? (I answer him, and I will observe him.) I am like a green fir-tree. From me is thy fruit found.
King James 2000
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green cypress tree. In me is your fruit found.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Ephraim, {what have I to do} with idols? I myself have answered and looked after you. I am like a luxuriant cypress; your fruit comes from me.
Modern King James verseion
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him and watched him; I am like a green fir tree. Your fruit is found from Me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ephraim, what have ye any more to do with idols? I have healed him and looked on him. I will be as a great fir tree, and of me shall thy fruit be found.
NET Bible
O Ephraim, I do not want to have anything to do with idols anymore! I will answer him and care for him. I am like a luxuriant cypress tree; your fruitfulness comes from me!
New Heart English Bible
Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; from me your fruit is found."
The Emphasized Bible
Ephraim saith - What to me any more are idols? I, have answered, and have closely observed him, I, am like a fir-tree that is green, From me, is thy fruit found.
Webster
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir-tree. From me is thy fruit found.
World English Bible
Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; from me your fruit is found."
Youngs Literal Translation
O Ephraim, what to Me any more with idols? I -- I afflicted, and I cause him to sing: 'I am as a green fir-tree,' From Me is thy fruit found.
Themes
Israel » Hoshea » Prophecies concerning » Of restoration
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 14:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Promise Of Restoration
7 They sitting in his shadow shall turn back; they shall live upon the grain, and they shall blossom as the vine: his remembrance as the wine of Lebanon. 8 Ephraim: What to me yet to images? I humbled, and I will regard him: I as the green cypress From me thy fruit was found. 9 Who being wise, and he shall understand these things? and knowing, and he shall know them? for the ways of Jehovah are straight, and the just shall go in them: and they transgressing shall be weak in them.
Names
Cross References
Job 34:32
Besides I shall see thou wilt teach it to me: if I did iniquity, I will not add.
Isaiah 41:19
I will give in the desert the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the tree of oil; I will set in the sterile region the the elm and the box tree together.
Job 33:27
He will look upon men, and he shall say, I sinned, and I perverted the right, and it was not fitting to me;
Isaiah 55:13
Instead of the thorn-hedge shall come up the cypress; of the briar shall come up the myrtle: and it was to Jehovah for a name for an eternal sigh; it shall not be cut off.
Isaiah 60:13
The glory of Lebanon shall come to thee, the cypress, the plane tree, and the box tree together, to adorn my holy place; and I will honor the place of my foot
Jeremiah 31:18-20
Hearing, I heard Ephraim being thrust away: Thou didst correct me, and I shall be corrected as a calf not being taught: turn me back and I shall be turned back, for thou Jehovah my God.
Hosea 14:2-3
Take with you words and turn back to Jehovah: say to him, Thou wilt take away all iniquity, and take good: and we will requite the fruits of our lips.
Luke 15:20
And having risen, he came to his father. And yet being far off, his father saw him, and felt compassion, and having run, fell upon his neck, and kissed him.
John 1:16
And of his completion we all received, and grace for grace.
John 1:47-48
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and he says of him, Behold truly an Israelite, in whom is no deceit!
John 15:1-8
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Acts 19:18-20
And many of them having believed came, acknowledging and proclaiming their deeds.
Galatians 5:22-23
And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
Ephesians 5:9
(For the fruit of the Spirit in all goodness and justice and truth.;)
Philippians 1:11
Filled with the fruits of justice, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 2:13
For God is working in you also to will and to work by benevolence.
Philippians 4:13
I am strong for all things in Christ strengthening me.
1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God;
James 1:17
Every good donation and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not one change, or shadow of turning.
1 Peter 1:14-16
As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:
1 Peter 4:3-4
For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries: