Hosea 8:11-12

Sacrifices Ineffective without Moral Obedience

8:11 Although Ephraim has built many altars for sin offerings,

these have become altars for sinning!

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

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

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