Hosea 8:3
Good News Translation
they have rejected what is good. Because of this their enemies will pursue them.

New Revised Standard Version
Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him.

Contemporary English Version
But your enemies will chase you for rejecting our good agreement.

New American Bible
But Israel has rejected what is good; the enemy shall pursue him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

cast.

Psalm 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well.

Psalm 81:10,11 For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. . . .

Amos 1:11 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath pursued his brother with the sword, and hath carried on his fury, and hath kept his wrath to the end.

1 Timothy 5:12 Having damnation, because they have made void their first faith.

the enemy.

Leviticus 26:36 And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies. The sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them: and they shall flee as it were from the sword. They shall fall, when no man pursueth them.

Deuteronomy 28:25 The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way mayst thou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.

Lamentations 3:66 Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.

Lamentations 4:19 Coph. Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the air: they pursued us upon the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

Context
Israel will Reap the Whirlwind
2They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee. 3Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him.4They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish.…
Cross References
Hosea 8:2
They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee.

Hosea 8:4
They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish.

Hosea 8:2
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