12 I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something foreign.
12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
12 Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.
12 I write out my revelation for them in detail and they pretend they can't read it.
12 I have written for him the great things of My law, But they were considered a strange thing.
12 Even though I gave them all my laws, they act as if those laws don't apply to them.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Hosea 8:12
Commentary on Hosea 8:11-14
(Read Hosea 8:11-14)
It is a great sin to corrupt the worship of God, and will be charged as sin on all who do it, how plausible soever their excuses may seem to be. The Lord had caused his law to be written for them, but they cared not to know, and would not obey it. Man seems by the temples he builds to be mindful of his Maker, yet really he has forgotten him, because he has cast off all his fear; but none ever hardened his heart against God and prospered. So long as men despise the truths and precepts of God's word, and the ordinances of his worship, all the observances and offerings, however costly, of their own devising, will be unto them for sin; for those services only are acceptable to God, which are done according to his word, and through Jesus Christ.