Catholic Public Domain Version
"I will write to him my intricate laws, which have been treated like strangers. "
— Hosea 8:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.”
“I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing. ”
“I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.”
“I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!”
“I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.”
“Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.”
“I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.”
For they have gone up to Assur, a wild ass alone by himself. Ephraim has given presents to his lovers.
But even when they will have brought the nations together for the sake of money, now I will assemble them. And they will rest for a little while from the burden of the king and the leaders.
For Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, and sanctuaries have become an offense for him.
I will write to him my intricate laws, which have been treated like strangers.
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.
And Israel has forgotten his Maker and has built shrines. And Judah has increased its fortified cities. And I will send fire upon his cities, and it will devour its structures.