Hosea 8:12

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

but they regard it as something totally unknown ¹  to them!

Hosea 13:7

13:7 So ²  I will pounce on them like a lion; ³ 

like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

[8:12]  ¹ tn Heb “foreign” or “alien”; NASB, NRSV “as a strange thing.”

[13:7]  ² tn The vav consecutive + preterite form וָאֱהִי (va’ehi) introduces a consequential or result clause; cf. NAB “Therefore”; NCV “That is why.”

[13:7]  ³ tn Heb “So I will be like a lion to them” (so NASB); NIV “I will come upon them like a lion.”