Bible verse
Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
Hosea 8:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Hosea 8.
8 Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.
11 Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
12 Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
13 Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.
KJV
I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.
ASV
I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.
ERV
Though I write for him my law in ten thousand precepts, they are counted as a strange thing.
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