Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
Hosea 8:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD;
I gave them my statutes, and shown them my ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no Kohen to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.
Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the mitzvah holy, and righteous, and good.