Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Hosea 8:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Though I write for him my law in ten thousand precepts, they are counted as a strange thing. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I wrote for him the ten thousand things of My law, but they are counted as a strange thing [as something which does not concern him]. American Standard Version (1901) I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing. Common English Bible Even though I write out for him a large number of my instructions, they are regarded as strange. Catholic Public Domain Version I will write to him my intricate laws, which have been treated like strangers. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign. |
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge;
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgements, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?
So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.