Revised Literal Translation
Hosea 8:3
3Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
Hosea 8:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
- New International Version (NIV)But Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him.
Context of Hosea 8:3
1Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of Yhwh, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. 2Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. 4They 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 made them idols, that they may be cut off. 5Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
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זָנַ֥ח יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל ט֑וֹב אוֹיֵ֖ב יִרְדְּֽפוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Hosea 8:3
- Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
- Psalms 81:10I am Yhwh thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
- Amos 1:11Thus saith Yhwh; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
- 1 Timothy 5:12Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
- Leviticus 26:36And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
- Deuteronomy 28:25Yhwh shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Lamentations 3:66Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of Yhwh.
- Lamentations 4:19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Commentaries on Hosea 8:3
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Israel has cast off the thing that is good - Or (since the word means “to cast off with abhorrence” “Israel hath east off and abhorred Good,” both “Him who is Good” and “that which is good.” The word “tob” includes both. They rejected good in rejecting God, “Who is simply, supremely, wholly, universally good, and good to all, the Author and Fountain of all good, so that there is nothing simply good but God; nothing worthy of that title, except in respect…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3Jesus says that only God is good (Mark 10:18). God is the source of all good things, but Israel rejected him.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. Israel--God repeats the name in opposition to their use of it (Ho 8:2). the thing that is good--Jerome translates, "God" who is good and doing good (Psa 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.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hosea 8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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