Hosea 8:12

I have written.. law] RV 'Though I write for him my law in ten thousand precepts.' It mattered not how emphatically God's teaching should be made known to Israel; they would ignore it.

13. The sacrifices to Jehovah are a merely formal act, only killing and eating. Such sacrifices without repentance are not acceptable to Him, and will not induce Him to forget or overlook their sins: cp. Isaiah 1:12. They.. Egypt] The prophet in God's name here threatens to undo the greatest act that God had ever done for His people: cp. Isaiah 7:16. Hosea evidently contemplated the possibility of the punishment which he foresaw coming from Egypt. More frequently he speaks of Assyria as the instrument of God's vengeance.