Discovery BoxHosea 10:12 
Context10:12 Sow righteousness for yourselves,
reap unfailing love.
Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves,
for it is time to seek the Lord,
until he comes and showers deliverance 1 on you.
Hosea 14:8
Context14:8 O Ephraim, I do not want to have anything to do 2 with idols anymore!
I will answer him and care for him.
I am like 3 a luxuriant cypress tree; 4
your fruitfulness comes from me! 5
1 tn Or “righteousness” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “justice.”
2 tn The Hebrew expression מַה־לִּי עוֹד (mah-li ’od) is a formula of repudiation/emphatic denial that God has anything in common with idols: “I want to have nothing to do with […] any more!” Cf., e.g., Judg 11:12; 2 Sam 16:10; 19:23; 1 Kgs 17:18; 2 Kgs 3:13; 2 Chr 35:21; Jer 2:18; Ps 50:16; BDB 553 s.v. מָה 1.d.(c).
3 tn The term “like” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity, as in the majority of English versions (including KJV).
4 tn Cf. KJV “a green fir tree”; NIV, NCV “a green pine tree”; NRSV “an evergreen cypress.”
5 tn Heb “your fruit is found in me”; NRSV “your faithfulness comes from me.”
