The Pulpit Commentary on Hosea 8:3

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. This is the reply of Jehovah. The good which Israel rejected is not exactly God the One Good, nor Jehovah the greatest Good, nor the Law, which was good; but all the goodness which he bestows on such as keep his covenant.

This Israel rejected, and in turn is rejected of God and delivered up into the hands of his pursuers.

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