Hosea 8:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

Israel. God repeats the name in opposition to their use of it (Hosea 8:2).

Hath cast off the thing that is good. Jerome translate, 'God' who is good, and is always doing good (Ps Hath cast off the thing that is good. Jerome translate, 'God' who is good, and is always doing good (Psalms 119:68). He is the chief object rejected, but with Him also all that is good.

The enemy shall pursue him - in just retribution from God.

Hosea 8:3

3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.