Hosea 8:5
New International Version
Samaria, throw out your calf-idol! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?

New Living Translation
“O Samaria, I reject this calf— this idol you have made. My fury burns against you. How long will you be incapable of innocence?

English Standard Version
I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Berean Standard Bible
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

King James Bible
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

New King James Version
Your calf is rejected, O Samaria! My anger is aroused against them— How long until they attain to innocence?

New American Standard Bible
He has rejected your calf, Samaria, saying, “My anger burns against them!” How long will they be incapable of innocence?

NASB 1995
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying, “My anger burns against them!” How long will they be incapable of innocence?

NASB 1977
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying, “My anger burns against them!” How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Legacy Standard Bible
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying, “My anger burns against them!” How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Amplified Bible
He has rejected your [pagan] calf, O Samaria, saying, “My wrath burns against them.” How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Christian Standard Bible
Your calf-idol is rejected, Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your calf-idol is rejected, Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

American Standard Version
He hath cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They have strayed by your calf, Samaria, and my anger was provoked against them; how long are they unable to be innocent?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be unable to purge themselves in Israel?

Contemporary English Version
City of Samaria, I'm angry because of your idol in the shape of a calf. When will you ever be innocent again?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed ?

English Revised Version
He hath cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Get rid of your calf-shaped idol, Samaria. My anger burns against these people. How long will they remain unclean?

Good News Translation
I hate the gold bull worshiped by the people of the city of Samaria. I am furious with them. How long will it be before they give up their idolatry?

International Standard Version
Your calf, Samaria, has been thrown away. My anger is burning against them. How long until they become pure again?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off; Mine anger is kindled against them; How long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

Literal Standard Version
Your calf has cast off, O Samaria, | My anger has burned against them; Until when are they not capable of purity?

Majority Standard Bible
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

New American Bible
He has rejected your calf, Samaria! My wrath is kindled against them; How long will they be incapable of innocence in Israel?

NET Bible
O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol! My anger burns against them! They will not survive much longer without being punished, even though they are Israelites!

New Revised Standard Version
Your calf is rejected, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

New Heart English Bible
Let Samaria throw out his calf idol. My anger burns against them. How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocence?

World English Bible
Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

Young's Literal Translation
Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity?

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Israel will Reap the Whirlwind
4They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction. 5He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? 6For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.…

Cross References
Psalm 19:13
Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.

Jeremiah 13:27
Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields--I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?"

Jeremiah 48:13
Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.

Hosea 10:5
The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests--those who rejoiced in its glory--for it has been taken from them into exile.

Hosea 13:2
Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, "They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!"

Amos 8:14
Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, 'As surely as your god lives, O Dan,' or, 'As surely as the way of Beersheba lives'--they will fall, never to rise again."


Treasury of Scripture

Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocence?

calf.

Hosea 8:6
For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Hosea 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

Isaiah 45:20
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

mine.

Deuteronomy 32:22
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

2 Kings 17:16-18,21-23
And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal…

how.

Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?

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Hosea 8
1. Destruction is threatened both to Israel and Judah for their impiety and idolatry.














(5) Thy calf . . . hath cast thee off.--Rather, is loathsome, Nothing can exceed the scorn of this outburst. The last clause should be rendered, How long are ye unable to attain purity? The attribution of consuming fire to God is not peculiar to the prophet. (Comp. Hebrews 12:29.)

Verse 5. - Thy calf, O Samaria, hath east thee off; mine anger is kindled against them. This portion of the verse has occasioned much diversity of translation and exposition, and yet the general meaning is much the same.

(1) In the translation

(a) of the Authorized Version the word "thee" is supplied; others

(b) supply "me," meaning Jehovah, thus, "Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast me off;" while . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He has rejected
זָנַח֙ (zā·naḥ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2186: Reject, forsake, fail

your calf,
עֶגְלֵ֣ךְ (‘eḡ·lêḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5695: A, calf, one nearly grown

O Samaria.
שֹֽׁמְר֔וֹן (šō·mə·rō·wn)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 8111: Samaria -- capital of northern kingdom of Israel

My anger
אַפִּ֖י (’ap·pî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

burns
חָרָ֥ה (ḥā·rāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2734: To glow, grow warm, to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy

against them.
בָּ֑ם (bām)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

How long will they be
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

incapable
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

of innocence?
נִקָּיֹֽן׃ (niq·qā·yōn)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5356: Clearness


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