Hosea 8:6
What does Hosea 8:6 mean?
A plain-English look at Hosea 8:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For even it <FI>is<Fi> of Israel; an artificer made it, And it <FI>is<Fi> not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890For from Israel is this also: — a workman made it, and it is noGod: for the calf of Samaria shall be [broken in] pieces.
Context
v.5He hath cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
v.6This passage
v.7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Acts 19:26
And ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands:
- 2 Kings 23:15
Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
- Isaiah 44:9
They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.
- Psalms 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands.
- 2 Chronicles 34:6
And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, in their ruins round about.
- Jeremiah 10:3
For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
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