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Hosea 2:8

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Agricultural Fertility Withdrawn from Israel

2:8Yet25 until now26 she has refused to acknowledge27 that I28 was the one

who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;

and that it was I who29 lavished on her the silver and gold—

which they30 used in worshiping Baal!31

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Footnotes

  1. 25 Or “For” (so , ); or “But” (so ).
  2. 26 The phrase “until now” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.
  3. 27 Heb “she does not know” (so , ); or “she does not acknowledge.”
  4. 28 The 1st person common singular independent personal pronoun אָנֹכִי (’anokhi, “I”) is emphatic, since the subject of this verbal clause is already explicit in the verb נָתַתִּי (natatti, Qal perfect 1st person common singular: “I gave”).
  5. 29 The phrase “that it was I who” does not appear in the Hebrew text here, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.
  6. 30 The third person plural here is an obvious reference to the Israelites who had been unfaithful to the Lord in spite of all that he had done for them. To maintain the imagery of Israel as the prostitute, a third person feminine singular would be called for; in the interest of literary consistency this has been supplied in some English translations (e.g., , , , ).
  7. 31 Heb “for Baal” (so , , ); cf. “in the worship of Baal.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And she did not know

that it was I who gave her

the grain, the wine, and the oil,

and who lavished on her silver and gold,

which they used for Baal.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

She has not acknowledged that I was the one

who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil,

who lavished on her the silver and gold—

which they used for Baal.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

She does not recognize

that it is I who gave her the grain,

the new wine, and the fresh oil.

I lavished silver and gold on her,

which they used for Baal.

NLTNew Living Translation

She doesn’t realize it was I who gave her everything she has—

the grain, the new wine, the olive oil;

I even gave her silver and gold.

But she gave all my gifts to Baal.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But she did not know

that it was I who gave her

grain, new wine, and oil,

and who gave her silver in abundance,

and gold which they made into a Baal.

KJV 1900King James Version

For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil,

And multiplied her silver and gold,

Which they prepared for Baal.