Charles Ellicott Commentary Hosea 8:12-13

"I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing. As for the sacrifices of mine offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but Jehovah accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt." — Hosea 8:12-13 (ASV)

The translation should be, though I write for him a multitude of my precepts. The tense “I write” is imperfect and represents the continuous process—the prophetic teaching as well as the ancient Mosaic law. In the wild lust for a foreign religion, the pure and spiritual Mosaic worship and the religious influence of prophecy had been forgotten. It seemed something “strange;” as Christ’s cross and claims have been considered strange by so-called Christians.