Hosea 8:2

Wycliffe Bible

Thei clepiden me to helpe, A! my God, we Israel han knowe thee.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Israel cries out to me,“My God, we know you!”

Hebrew Names Version
They cry to me, 'My God, we Yisra'el acknowledge you!'

King James Version
Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

English Standard Version
To me they cry, "My God, we—Israel—know you."

New American Standard Bible
They cry out to Me, "My God, we of Israel know You!"

New Century Version
They cry out to me, ‘Our God, we in Israel know you!'

Amplified Bible
Then they will cry out to Me, "My God, we of Israel know You!"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Israel shall crie vnto me, My God, we know thee.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They cry out to Me, "My God, we of Israel know You!"

Legacy Standard Bible
They cry out to Me,"My God, we of Israel know You!"

Berean Standard Bible
Israel cries out to Me, "O our God, we know You!"

Contemporary English Version
Israel, you say, "We claim you, the Lord , as our God."

Complete Jewish Bible
Will they cry out to me, ‘We are Isra'el, God, we know you'?

Darby Translation
They shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee; [we], Israel.

Easy-to-Read Version
They yell out at me, ‘My God, we in Israel know you!'

George Lamsa Translation
They have called to me, saying, O our God, we know thee.

Good News Translation
Even though they call me their God and claim that they are my people and that they know me,

Lexham English Bible
They cry out to me, "My God! We, Israel, know you!"

Literal Translation
Israel shall cry to Me, My God, we know You.

American Standard Version
They shall cry unto me, My God, we Israel know thee.

Bible in Basic English
They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Will they cry unto Me: 'My God, we Israel know Thee'?

King James Version (1611)
Israel shall crie vnto me, My God, we know thee.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Israel shoulde haue sayde vnto me: Thou art my God, we knowe thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They shall soon cry out to me, saying, O God, we know thee.

English Revised Version
They shall cry unto me, My God, we Israel know thee.

World English Bible
They cry to me, 'My God, we Israel acknowledge you!'

Update Bible Version
They shall cry to me, My God, we Israel know you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Israel shall cry to me, My God, we know thee.

New English Translation
Israel cries out to me, "My God, we acknowledge you!"

New King James Version
Israel will cry to Me, "My God, we know You!'

New Living Translation
Now Israel pleads with me, ‘Help us, for you are our God!'

New Life Bible
They cry out to Me, ‘My God, we of Israel know You!'

New Revised Standard
Israel cries to me, "My God, we—Israel—know you!"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Unto me, shall they make outcry, My God! we acknowledge thee - we , Israel!

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee.

Revised Standard Version
To me they cry, My God, we Israel know thee.

Young's Literal Translation
To Me they cry, `My God, we -- Israel -- have known Thee.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Israel can saye vnto me: thou art my God, we knowe the:

Contextual Overview

¹ A trumpe be in thi throte, as an egle on the hous of the Lord; for that that thei yeden ouer my boond of pees, and braken my lawe. ² Thei clepiden me to helpe, A! my God, we Israel han knowe thee. ³ Israel hath cast awei good, the enemye schal pursue hym. ⁴ Thei regnyden, and not of me; thei weren princes, and Y knew not. Thei maden her gold and siluer idols to hem, that thei schulden perische. ⁵ A! Samarie, thi calf is cast awei; my strong veniaunce is wrooth ayens hem. Hou long moun thei not be clensid? ⁶ for also it is of Israel. A crafti man made it, and it is not god; for the calf of Samarie schal be in to webbis of ireyns. ⁷ For thei schulen sowe wynd, and thei schulen repe whirlewynd. A stalke stondynge is not in hem, the seed schal not make mele; that if also it makith mele, aliens schulen ete it.

Bible Verse Review
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Hosea 5:15, Hosea 7:13, Hosea 7:14, 2 Kings 10:16, 2 Kings 10:29, Psalms 78:34-37, Isaiah 48:1, Isaiah 48:2, Jeremiah 7:4, Micah 3:11, Matthew 7:21, Matthew 25:11, Luke 13:25, Titus 1:16, 1 John 2:4

Reciprocal: Job 35:13 - God Hosea 2:23 - Thou art my God Hosea 7:8 - a cake Mark 7:6 - honoureth

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the sixe hundrid yeer of the lijf of Noe, in the secunde moneth, in the seuententhe dai of the moneth, alle the wellis of the greet see weren brokun, and the wyndowis of heuene weren opened,

Genesis 8:11
and sche cam to hym at euentid, and bare in hir mouth a braunche of olyue tre with greene leeuys. Therfor Noe vndirstood that the watris hadden ceessid on erthe;

Genesis 8:13
Therfor in the sixe hundrid and o yeer of the lijf of Noe, in the firste monethe, in the firste day of the monethe, watris weren decreessid on erthe; and Noe openede the roof of the schip, and bihelde and seiy that the face of the erthe was dried.

Job 38:37
Who schal telle out the resoun of heuenes, and who schal make acordyng of heuene to sleep?

Proverbs 8:28
Whanne he made stidfast the eir aboue; and weiede the wellis of watris.

Jonah 2:3
Thou castidist me doun in to depnesse, in the herte of the see, and the flood cumpasside me; alle thi swolowis and thi wawis passiden on me.

Matthew 8:9
For whi Y am a man ordeyned vndur power, and haue knyytis vndir me; and Y seie to this, Go, and he goith; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my seruaunt, Do this, and he doith it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Israel shall cry unto me, my God, we know thee. In their distress they shall cry to the Lord to help them, and have mercy on them, as they used to do when in trouble, Isaiah 26:16; when the eagle is come upon them, and just ready to devour them; when Samaria is besieged with file Assyrian army, their king taken prisoner, and they just ready to fall into the hands of the enemy, then they shall cry to God, though in a hypocritical manner; own him to be the true God, and claim their interest in him, and pretend knowledge of him, and acquaintance with him; though they have not served and worshipped him, but idols, and that for hundreds of years; like others who profess to know God, but in works deny him, Titus 1:16. Israel is the last word in the verse, and occasions different versions: "they shall cry unto me"; these transgressors of the covenant and the law, these hypocrites, shall pray to God in trouble, saying, "my God, we Israel", or Israelites, "know thee"; or, "we know thee who are Israel" x; and to this sense is the Targum,

"in every time that distress comes upon them, they pray before me, and say, now we know that we have no God besides thee; redeem us, for we are thy people Israel;''

why may they not be rendered thus, "they shall cry unto me; my God, we know thee, Israel" shall say? Castalio renders them to this sense, "my God", say they; but "we know thee, Israel"; we, the three Persons in the Trinity, Father, Son, and Spirit, we know thy hypocrisy and wickedness, that it is only outwardly and hypocritically, and not sincerely, that thou criest unto and callest upon God.

x לי יזעקו אלהי ידענוך ישראל "ad me clamant, Deus mi, novimus te nos Israel", De Dieu; "clamabunt ad me, O Deus meus, nos Israelitae cognoscimus te", Tigurine version, so Tarnovius; "mihi vocant, Deus mi, cognovimus, [vel] agnoscimus te Israel", vel "nos lsrael, seu Israelitae", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Israel shall cry unto Me, My God, we know Thee - Or, according to the order in the Hebrew, “To Me shall they cry, we know Thee, Israel,” i. e., “we, Israel,” Thy people, “know Thee.” It is the same plea which our Lord says that He shall reject in the Day of Judgment. “Many shall say unto Me, in that Day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy Name, and in Thy Name cast out devils, and in Thy Name done many wonderful works” Matthew 7:22. In like way, when our Lord came in the flesh, they said of God the Father, He is our God. But our Lord appealed to their own consciences; “It is My Father who honoreth Me, of whom ye say, He is our God, but ye have not known Him” John 8:54. So Isaiah, when speaking of his own times, prophesied of those of our Lord also; “This people draweth nigh unto Me, with their mouth and honoreth Me with their lips; but their heart is far from Me” Matthew 15:8; Isaiah 29:13. “God says, that they shall urge this as a proof, that they know God, and as an argument to move God to have respect unto them, namely, that they are the seed of Jacob, who was called Israel, because he prevailed with God, and they were called by his name.” As though they said, “we, Thy Israel, know thee.” It was all hypocrisy, the cry of mere fear, not of love; from where God, using their own name of Israel which they had pleaded, answers the plea, declaring what “Israel” had become.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 8:2. Israel shalt cry — The rapidity of the eagle's flight is well imitated in the rapidity of the sentences in this place.

My God, we know thee. — The same sentiment, from the same sort of persons, under the same feelings, as that in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Matthew 7:22: "Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? Then will I profess unto them, I never KNEW YOU."