Parallel Verses
King James Version
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
New American Standard Bible
“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of
Holman Bible
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
International Standard Version
Your calf, Samaria, has been thrown away. My anger is burning against them. How long until they become pure again?
A Conservative Version
He has cast off thy calf, O Samaria. MY anger is kindled against them. How long will it be ere they attain to innocence?
American Standard Version
He hath cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
Amplified
He has rejected your [pagan] calf, O Samaria, saying,
“My wrath burns against them.”
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
Bible in Basic English
I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?
Darby Translation
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be incapable of purity?
Julia Smith Translation
Thy calf rejected, O Shomeron; mine anger was kindled against them: how long shall they not be able to be clean?
King James 2000
Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be before they attain to innocence?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your calf is rejected, Samaria; my anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
Modern King James verseion
Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off. My anger is kindled against them. Until when will they not attain purity?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thy calf, O Samaria, shall be taken away, for my wrathful indignation is gone forth against thee. How long will it be, before they can be cleansed?
NET Bible
O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol! My anger burns against them! They will not survive much longer without being punished, even though they are Israelites!
New Heart English Bible
Let Samaria throw out his calf idol. My anger burns against them. How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
The Emphasized Bible
He hath cast away thy calf, O Samaria, kindled is mine anger upon them, - How long shall they not endure to be innocent?
Webster
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocence?
World English Bible
Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
Youngs Literal Translation
Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity?
Themes
Calf » Prophecies against the golden calves at beth-el
Interlinear
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References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 8:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Rejects The Good
4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. 5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? 6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
Cross References
Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
Hosea 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
Deuteronomy 32:22
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
2 Kings 17:16-18
And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
2 Kings 17:21-23
For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Isaiah 45:20
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Hosea 8:6
For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
Acts 7:41
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.