Hosea 14:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; your fruit comes from me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered [him] and will regard and watch over him; I am like a green fir or cypress tree; with Me is the fruit found [which is to nourish you].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

⁸ Ephraim, what do idols have to do with me? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like a green cypress tree; your fruit comes from me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ They will be converted, sitting in his shadow. They will live on wheat, and they will grow like a vine. His memorial will be like the wine of the cedars of Lebanon.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus.

Hosea 14:8 Cross References

Job 33:27

That person sings to others and says, ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not paid back to me.

Job 34:32

teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

Isaiah 41:19

I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together,

Isaiah 55:13

Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle, and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 60:13

The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the pine, to beautify the place of my sanctuary, and I will glorify where my feet rest.

Ezekiel 17:23

On the mountain height of Israel I will transplant it, and it will produce boughs and bear fruit and become a noble cedar. Under it every kind of bird will live; in the shade of its branches will nest winged creatures of every kind.

Ezekiel 36:25

I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

Luke 15:20

So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him.

John 1:16

From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.

Philippians 1:11

having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 2:13

for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they report about us what kind of welcome we had among you and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God

James 1:17

Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.