Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
I have written to him the great things of My Law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
New American Standard Bible
They are regarded as a strange thing.
King James Version
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Holman Bible
ten thousand points of My instruction,
they would be
International Standard Version
I prescribed great things from my Law for them, but they considered them profane.
A Conservative Version
I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law, but they are counted as a strange thing.
American Standard Version
I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.
Amplified
I wrote for him the ten thousand precepts of My law,
But they are regarded as a strange thing [which does not concern him].
Bible in Basic English
Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.
Darby Translation
I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted as a strange thing.
Julia Smith Translation
I will write to him his multitude of my instructions; they were reckoned as a strange thing.
King James 2000
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I write for him myriads of my instruction; they are regarded as a strange thing.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though I show them my law never so much, they count it but strange doctrine.
NET Bible
I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!
New Heart English Bible
I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.
The Emphasized Bible
I have been wont to write for him the myriad things of my law, - Like something alien, have they been accounted.
Webster
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
World English Bible
I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.
Youngs Literal Translation
I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 8:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Rejects The Good
11 Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him to sin. 12 I have written to him the great things of My Law, but they were counted as a strange thing. 13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of My offerings, and eat it; but Jehovah does not receive them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt.
Phrases
Cross References
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.
Deuteronomy 4:6-8
And you shall keep and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
2 Kings 17:15-16
And they rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He testified against them. And they went after the vain thing, and became vain, and after the nations around them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them not to do like them.
Nehemiah 9:13-14
And You came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from Heaven, and gave them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
Nehemiah 9:26
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You, and cast Your Law behind their backs. And they killed Your prophets who testified against them to turn them to You, and they worked great blasphemies.
Psalm 50:17
Yea, you hate to be taught, and you toss My Words behind you.
Psalm 119:18
Open my eyes, so that I may behold wonderful things out of Your Law.
Psalm 147:19-20
He shows His Word to Jacob, His Precepts and His judgments to Israel.
Proverbs 22:20
Have I not written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Isaiah 30:9
that this is a rebellious people, lying sons. They are sons who will not hear the Law of Jehovah;
Jeremiah 6:16-17
So says Jehovah, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths where the good way is, and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.
Ezekiel 20:11
And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
Romans 3:1
Then what is the superiority of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
Romans 7:12
So indeed the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.