KJV King James Version
Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard [him], and observed him: I [am] like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Hosea 14:8
Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard [him], and observed him: I [am] like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
WEB World English Bible
Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; from me your fruit is found.”
ASV American Standard Version
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him: I am like a green fir-tree; from me is thy fruit found.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
O Ephraim, what to Me any more with idols? I—I afflicted, and I cause him to sing: ‘I am as a green fir-tree,’ From Me is thy fruit found.
Surrounding context — Hosea 14
5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive [as] the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof [shall be] as the wine of Lebanon.
8 Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard [him], and observed him: I [am] like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
9 Who [is] wise, and he shall understand these [things]? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD [are] right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אֶפְרַ֕יִםH669 · eph.ra.yimEphraimמַה־H4100 · mahwhat?לִּ֥יH9030 · nimeע֖וֹדH5750 · odstillלָֽעֲצַבִּ֑יםH6091 · a.tsavidolאֲנִ֧יH589 · a.niIעָנִ֣יתִיH6030 · unto dwellוַאֲשׁוּרֶ֗נּוּH7789 · shurto seeאֲנִי֙H589 · a.niIכִּבְר֣וֹשׁH1265 · be.roshcypressרַֽעֲנָ֔ןH7488 · ra.anbe freshמִמֶּ֖נִּיH4480 · minfromפֶּרְיְךָ֥H6529 · pe.rifruitנִמְצָֽא׃H4672 · ma.tsato find
Cross-references
Job 34:32[That which] I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.James 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.Isaiah 55:13Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not be cut off.Philippians 2:13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.Luke 15:20And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.Isaiah 41:19I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, [and] the pine, and the box tree together:1 Peter 4:3-4For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:Ephesians 5:9(For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)Galatians 5:22-23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,1 Thessalonians 1:9For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;Acts 19:18-20And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.John 1:16And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.John 15:1-8I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.1 Peter 1:14-16As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:Isaiah 60:13The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.Philippians 1:11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.John 1:47-48Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!Job 33:27He looketh upon men, and [if any] say, I have sinned, and perverted [that which was] right, and it profited me not;
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