Hosea 8:12

8:12 I spelled out my law for him in great detail,

but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!

Hosea 13:7

13:7 So I will pounce on them like a lion;

like a leopard I will lurk by the path.


tn Heb “foreign” or “alien”; NASB, NRSV “as a strange thing.”

tn The vav consecutive + preterite form וָאֱהִי (vaehi) introduces a consequential or result clause; cf. NAB “Therefore”; NCV “That is why.”

tn Heb “So I will be like a lion to them” (so NASB); NIV “I will come upon them like a lion.”