Hosea 8:13 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But the LORD doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition My sacrificial gifts they sacrifice [as a mere form]; yes, they sacrifice flesh and eat it, but the Lord does not accept them. Now He will [earnestly] remember their guilt and iniquity and will punish their sins. They shall return to [another] Egypt [Assyria]. [Deut. 28:68.] American Standard Version (1901) As for the sacrifices of mine offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but Jehovah accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt. Common English Bible Though they offer choice sacrifices, though they eat flesh, the LORD doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their wickedness and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt. Catholic Public Domain Version They will offer victims, they will immolate flesh and will eat, and the Lord will not accept them. For now he will remember their iniquity, and he will repay their sins: they will be turned back to Egypt. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. |
Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.*
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
*What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?,* says the LORD. *I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
Thus says the LORD to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheva, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Yisra'el, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.*'*
*They won't return into the land of Egypt; but the Ashur will be their king, because they refused to repent.
If Gil`ad is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
It will be, like people, like Kohen; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.
They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
*Efrayim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Ashur.
They return, but not to the Elyon. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Mof will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.
The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Yisra'el will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gevah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
*You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.*
Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the shalom offerings of your fat animals.
The LORD has sworn by the pride of Ya`akov, *Surely I will never forget any of their works.
But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.
When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.
For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
The LORD will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.
The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Bavel the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Shemu'el said, Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.