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Hosea 8:2

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— They cry out to Me, “My God, we of Israel know You!”
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— They shall cry unto me, My God, we Israel know thee.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— They shall cry unto me, My God, we Israel know thee.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Israel shall cry to me, My God, we know thee.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— They shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee; [we], Israel.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Unto me, shall they make outcry, My God! we acknowledge thee—[we], Israel!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— To Me they cry, 'My God, we—Israel—have known Thee.'
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Israel shall crie vnto me, My God, we know thee.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Israel shall crie vnto me, My God, we know thee.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— They have called to me, saying, O our God, we know thee.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— They shall soon cry out to me, [saying], O God, we know thee.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Yisrael shall cry unto me, My Elohim, we know thee.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Yiŝrä´ël יִשׂרָאֵל 3478
{3478} Prime
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisra'el
{yis-raw-ale'}
From H8280 and H0410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity.
shall cry 2199
{2199} Prime
זָעַק
za`aq
{zaw-ak'}
A primitive root; to shriek (from anguish or danger); by analogy (as a herald) to announce or convene publicly.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
unto me, My ´Élöhîm אֱלֹהִים, 430
{0430} Prime
אֱלֹהִים
'elohiym
{el-o-heem'}
Plural of H0433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative.
we know 3045
{3045} Prime
ידע
yada`
{yaw-dah'}
A primitive root; to know (properly to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively instruction, designation, punishment, etc.).
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
thee.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Hosea 8:2

_ _ My God, we know thee — the singular, “My,” is used distributively, each one so addressing God. They, in their hour of need, plead their knowledge of God as the covenant-people, while in their acts they acknowledge Him not (compare Matthew 7:21, Matthew 7:22; Titus 1:16; also Isaiah 29:13; Jeremiah 7:4). The Hebrew joins “Israel,” not as English Version, with “shall cry,” but “We, Israel, know thee”; God denies the claim thus urged on the ground of their descent from Israel.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Hosea 8:1-7.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hosea 8:2

Shall cry — But not sincerely.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Hosea 8:2

Israel shall (b) cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

(b) They will cry like hypocrites, but not from the heart, as their deeds declare.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance

Hosea 5:15 I will go [and] return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
Hosea 7:13-14 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. ... And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me.
2 Kings 10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
2 Kings 10:29 Howbeit [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to wit], the golden calves that [were] in Bethel, and that [were] in Dan.
Psalms 78:34-37 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. ... For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Isaiah 48:1-2 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, [but] not in truth, nor in righteousness. ... For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts [is] his name.
Jeremiah 7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are] these.
Micah 3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 25:11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
Luke 13:25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
1 John 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
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2K 10:16, 29. Ps 78:34. Is 48:1. Jr 7:4. Ho 5:15; 7:13. Mi 3:11. Mt 7:21; 25:11. Lk 13:25. Tit 1:16. 1Jn 2:4.

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