Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though I show them my law never so much, they count it but strange doctrine.
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 King James verseion
I have written to him the great things of My Law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 8:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Rejects The Good
11 Ephraim hath made many altars to do wickedness, therefore shall the altars turn to his sin. 12 Though I show them my law never so much, they count it but strange doctrine. 13 Whereas they do sacrifice, offering the flesh and eating it, the LORD will have no pleasure therein: but will remember their wickedness, and punish their sins. Israel turneth again into Egypt:
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Cross References
Hosea 4:6
My people perish, because they have no knowledge. Seeing then that thou hast refused understanding, therefore will I refuse thee also: so that thou shalt no more be my priest. And forsomuch as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Deuteronomy 4:6-8
Keep them therefore and do them, for that is your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the nations: which, when they have heard all these ordinances, shall say, 'O what a wise and understanding people is this great nation.'
2 Kings 17:15-16
And they refused his ordinances and his covenant that he had made with their fathers, and the witness which he had witnessed to them and followed vanity and became vain, like to the heathen that were round about them, of which the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
Nehemiah 9:13-14
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest unto them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, true laws, good commandments and statutes,
Nehemiah 9:26
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets, which exhorted them so earnestly, that they should convert unto thee, and did great blasphemies.
Psalm 50:17
whereas thou hatest to be reformed, and hast cast my words behind thee?
Psalm 119:18
Open thou mine eyes, that I may see the wondrous things of thy law.
Psalm 147:19-20
He showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and ordinances unto Israel.
Proverbs 22:20
Have not I warned thee very oft with counsel and learning?
Isaiah 30:9
For it is an obstinate people, unfaithful children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD.
Jeremiah 6:16-17
Thus sayeth the LORD, "Go into the streets, consider and make inquisition for the old way: and if it be the good and right way, then go therein, that ye may find rest for your souls. But they say, 'We will not walk therein.'
Ezekiel 20:11
I gave them my commandments, and showed them my laws: which whoso keepeth shall live in them.
Romans 3:1
What preferment, then, hath the Jew? Other, what advantageth circumcision?
Romans 7:12
Wherefore the law is holy: and the commandment holy, just, and good.