Hosea 8:3
Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
In Context
2They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:25The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.
Psalms 81:10\81:9\There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.
Lamentations 4:19Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.
1 Timothy 5:12And they are judged because they have been false to their first faith;
Matthew Henry on Hosea 8:2-8
Sin and Punishment of Israel; Crimes Charged against Israel; Sottish Idolatry of Israel. ( b. c. 745.) 1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord , because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. 2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. 3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. 4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they… Read the whole commentary →