Textus Receptus Bibles
Julia E. Smith Translation 1876
| 8:1 | The trumpet to thy mouth: as an eagle upon the house of Jehovah, because they passed by my covenant and they transgressed against my laws. |
| 8:2 | Israel shall cry to me, My God, we knew thee. |
| 8:3 | Israel rejected the good: the enemy shall pursue him. |
| 8:4 | They made kings, and not from me: and they made princes, and I knew not: their silver and their gold they made to them images to cut off. |
| 8:5 | Thy calf rejected, O Shomeron; mine anger was kindled against them: how long shall they not be able to be clean? |
| 8:6 | For from Israel, and this workman made it, and it is not God: for the calf of Shomeron shall be broken in pieces. |
| 8:7 | For they shall sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: no stalk to it: the sprout shall not make flour: perhaps it will make, strangers will swallow it down. |
| 8:8 | Israel was swallowed down: now they were among the nations as a vessel no delight in it. |
| 8:9 | For they went up to Assur, Ephraim a wild ass alone to himself: they hired those loving. |
| 8:10 | Also if they will hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and shall they be weak a little from the lifting up of the king of the princes. |
| 8:11 | Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, altars were to him to sin. |
| 8:12 | I will write to him his multitude of my instructions; they were reckoned as a strange thing. |
| 8:13 | The sacrifices of my gifts they will sacrifice flesh, and they will eat; Jehovah delighted not in them; now will he remember their iniquity, and he will review their sins: they shall turn back to Egypt |
| 8:14 | And Israel will forget him making him, and he will build temples; and Judah multiplied fortified cities: and I sent a fire upon his cities and it will consume its palaces. |
Julia E. Smith Translation 1876
The Julia Evelina Smith Parker Translation is considered the first complete translation of the Bible into English by a woman. The Bible was titled The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues, and was published in 1876.
Julia Smith, of Glastonbury, Connecticut had a working knowledge of Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Her father had been a Congregationalist minister before he became a lawyer. Having read the Bible in its original languages, she set about creating her own translation, which she completed in 1855, after a number of drafts. The work is a strictly literal rendering, always translating a Greek or Hebrew word with the same word wherever possible. Smith accomplished this work on her own in the span of eight years (1847 to 1855). She had sought out no help in the venture, even writing, "I do not see that anybody can know more about it than I do." Smith's insistence on complete literalness, plus an effort to translate each original word with the same English word, combined with an odd notion of Hebrew tenses (often translating the Hebrew imperfect tense with the English future) results in a translation that is mechanical and often nonsensical. However, such a translation if overly literal might be valuable to consult in checking the meaning of some individual verse. One notable feature of this translation was the prominent use of the Divine Name, Jehovah, throughout the Old Testament of this Bible version.
In 1876, at 84 years of age some 21 years after completing her work, she finally sought publication. The publication costs ($4,000) were personally funded by Julia and her sister Abby Smith. The 1,000 copies printed were offered for $2.50 each, but her household auction in 1884 sold about 50 remaining copies.
The translation fell into obscurity as it was for the most part too literal and lacked any flow. For example, Jer. 22:23 was given as follows: "Thou dwelling in Lebanon, building as nest in the cedars, how being compassionated in pangs coming to thee the pain as in her bringing forth." However, the translation was the only Contemporary English translation out of the original languages available to English readers until the publication of The British Revised Version in 1881-1894.(The New testament was published in 1881, the Old in 1884, and the Apocrypha in 1894.) This makes it an invaluable Bible for its period.